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Recently, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice has recommended substantial changes to the Mediation Bill, 2021. The bill introduced in Rajya Sabha in December, 2021, with an aim to reduce the pendency of cases in courts. MEDIATION BILL: The objective of the bill is to settle any civil or commercial disputes through mediation beforeRead more

1) Light mantled albatross: Asia’s first sighting of Light-mantled Albatross (Phoebetria palpebrate), a species native to the Antarctic seas, was recorded in Rameswaram and adjoining islets of the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park The Light-mantled Albatross, with broad pelagic habits, maintains a circumpolar distribution in the Southern Ocean. Listed as a ‘Near Threatened’ speciesRead more

I2U2 is the new grouping formed by four nations- India, Israel, UAE, and the US. It was given the name International Forum for Economic Cooperation. Background of I2U2 Grouping: Abraham Accords: In 2020, Israel, UAE and Bahrain signed Abraham Accords that led to normalising of relations between Israel and a number of Arab Gulf countriesRead more

According to the 2022 edition of the United Nations ’UN World Population Prospects Report (WPP), India is projecting to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023. What is the WPP? The Population Division of the UN has been publishing the WPP in a biennial cycle since1951. Each revision of the WPP providesRead more

Cloudbursts are short-duration, intense rainfall events over a small area. According to the IMD, it is a weather phenomenon with unexpected precipitation exceeding 100mm/h over a geographical region of approximately 20-30 square km. What causes Cloudburst? A study published last year studied the meteorological factors behind the cloudburst over the Kedarnath region. The results showedRead more

Japan-India ties are 70 years old this year. For the first five post-war decades of the 20th century, bilateral ties were friendly. India was not among the signatories of the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty, which brokered post-war relations between the defeated Axis power and the Allies. Instead, Delhi established an independent peace treaty andRead more

Ayurveda has been in practice for close to three millennia. Even today, India’s traditional medicine serves the healthcare needs of millions of Indians. But the Ayurveda faces a few challenges that need to be addressed. Ayurveda is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. The theory and practice of Ayurveda isRead more

1) Kargil Vijay Diwas: observed on the 26th of July every year. Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was fought between May-July of 1999 in the Kargil (now a district in the UT of Ladakh) district of Jammu and Kashmir along the Line of Control (LoC) in which India got the victory. InRead more

1) Marburg virus disease: it is a severe, often fatal hemorrhagic fever. It was earlier known as Marburg haemorrhagic fever. Marburg, like Ebola, is a filovirus; and both diseases are clinically similar. Rousettus fruit bats are considered the natural hosts for the Marburg virus. According to WHO, African green monkeys imported from Uganda were theRead more

1) India Innovation Index 2022: Karnataka has topped Niti Aayog’s India Innovation Index 2022 among major states, while Chandigarh has topped among city-states and union territories Manipur has topped among northeast and hill states. Prepared by NITI Aayog and the Institute for Competitiveness, the India Innovation Index is a comprehensive tool for the evaluation andRead more