QS Rankings – Indian Institutes Yet to Breach The Top 100 Rank Barrier In the prestigious QS World University Rankings, Indian institutes are yet to find a place among the top 100. See more

The report by the Joint Monitoring Programme of the #UNICEF and #WHO had found that since the start of the millennium #India accounted for two-thirds of the 650 million people who stopped practicing open defecation. See more

in Just 8 years: #India to overtake China as most populous country: #UNreport The United Nations report, The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights was published by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. See more

INDIA U.S. Trade War: #India Is Readying For #TradeWar With US India is readying itself for a retaliatory move against the US as trade war seems to be escalating.

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has set a mid-July date for the launch of much awaited Chandrayaan-2 space mission.ISRO has chosen the southern pole of the moon for its lander. This region has not been explored by any space agency so far. See more

Scientists from IIT Guwahati have developed a paper-based malaria test kit and detection method which is Simple, Fast and Reusable. https://www.classicias...

Amended Order Allows All States to Constitute Foreigners Tribunal. A Foreigners Tribunal will decide whether a person staying in India illegally is a foreigner or not. See more

UNICEF Study On Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Mission In a boost to the government’s flagship programme #SwachhBharatAbhiyan (SBA) to make villages Open Defecation Free (ODF), a study conducted by UNICEF showed the various benefits of the scheme. See more

The Governments, both Central and State, ready to spend around Rs. 1 Lakh Crore for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan mission on 60:40 basis. https://www.classic...

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Digital payments have increased by 10-fold across the country in the last five years and will further see a 10X growth in the next three years by Nandan Nilekani led RBI committee. See more

The Kilogram Gets A Makeover – India The Indian #textbook definition of the kilogram is set to get a makeover. #India has adopted a global resolution to update the #International Systems of Units (SI) that redefines the basic unit – #Kilogram. See more

India And Data Localisation – Current Scenario Staunch opposition from the #US on countries calling for #data #localisation, let us see where India stands in this scenario. The Internet generates huge amounts of data is stored in the United State. See more

Supreme Court Blames Construction Work for Floods While Delivering #Judgement, the #Supreme #Court had observed that unbridled construction in eco-sensitive regions are the reasons for the unprecedented floods that we have seen in the recent past in various parts of India.

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The #MANAV Initiative – To Understand the Role of Tissues & Cells Initiative launched by the Department of Biotechnology called ‘MANAV". By mapping every part of the human body, the Atlas will help understand the roles the tissues play and the cells that are associated w...

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Chandrayaan-2 Set for a July Launch – #ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (#ISRO) is gearing up to launch its second mission to #Moon. #Chandrayaan2 is set to be launched between July 9-16. See more

Target 2023 to Eliminate Trans Fats In partnership with the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA), the World Health Organisation (WHO) set 2023 as the target year to eliminate trans fats from the industrially produced food supply. it is directly related to over 500,000 ...

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Naming A Cyclone “#Fani” – How Is It Done? The #Cyclone ‘Fani’ which has started its journey from South-East Bay of Bengal has finally made landfall in #Odisha after more than 10 days at sea. See more

Restricting Access to VAHAN Database Ministry of Road Transportation has put an end to the free access of data from the Ministry’s VAHAN big data database. After the notification of NDSAP, the government has launched Open Government Data Platform India in 2012. See more

SDG India Index And Surprising Results The #NITIAayog #SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) #India Index released in December 2018 has thrown up surprising results regarding poverty eradication among states. See more

Earth witnessed five #mass #extinctions so far and the sixth is being caused by humans. https://www.classiciasacademy.com/blog/sci...

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