Oil India Limited (OIL) has taken the first significant step towards Green Hydrogen Economy in India with the commissioning of India’s First 99.999% pure Green Hydrogen pilot plant, with an installed capacity of 10 kg per day at its Jorhat Pump Station in Assam.   What is green hydrogen? Hydrogen when produced by electrolysis using… Continue reading First Pure Green Hydrogen Plant

Yard 11880 (INS Vagsheer), the sixth and last submarine of the Indian Navy’s Kalvari class submarines of Project 75 has been launched at the Kanhoji Angre Wet Basin of Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL).   What is Project 75? Project – 75 includes construction of six submarines of Scorpene design. These submarines are being built under… Continue reading INS Vagsheer

The 2022 edition of the Invictus Games opened on April 16 night in The Hague, Netherlands, where Prince Harry paid tribute to the Ukrainian team. The Games are scheduled to run until April 22.   About the ‘Invictus Games’ – The first edition of the Games was held in London in 2014, and subsequent competitions… Continue reading Invictus Games

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation on the 400th Parkash Purab of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji at the Red Fort in New Delhi on 21st of April, 2022.   About ‘Guru Tegh Bahadur ji’ – Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621 – 1675) was the ninth of ten Sikh Gurus and the leader of Sikhs… Continue reading Guru Tegh Bahadur

Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his two day Gujarat tour by visiting the Command and Control Centre set up by the Education Department.   What is the Command and Control Centre 2.0 or ‘Vidya Samiksha Kendra’? In June 2021, former Chief Minister Vijay Rupani inaugurated the technological and infrastructural upgraded Command and Control Centre called… Continue reading Vidya Samiksha Kendra

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has performed the ground-breaking ceremony for the first-of-its-kind WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM) in Jamnagar, Gujarat.   What is ‘traditional medicine’? The WHO describes traditional medicine as the total sum of the “knowledge, skills and practices indigenous and different… Continue reading Global Centre on Traditional Medicine

As per a policy research working paper published by the World Bank recently, Extreme Poverty is estimated to have declined 12.3 percentage points between 2011 and 2019 in India.   What does the report say? The World Bank policy research working papers aim to encourage exchange of ideas on development and quickly disseminates the findings… Continue reading Extreme Poverty

The Supreme Court held that a ‘victim‘ as defined in the Code of the Criminal Procedure, 1973 has a right to be heard at every step post the occurrence of offence, including the stage of adjudication of bail application of the accused.   What is the case? In October 2021, a convoy of three SUVs,… Continue reading Rights of victims and accused

The NITI Aayog is planning to launch a National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP) to provide government data in a user-friendly format, to promote data-driven decision making and research.   What is NDAP? Conceived in 2020, the platform aims to standardise data across government sources and provide flexible analytics that make it easy for users… Continue reading National Data and Analytics Platform

Fifteen signatures of Iridium satellite phones, used by the U.S.-led allied forces in Afghanistan, and Wi-Fi-enabled thermal imagery devices that help terrorists to escape security cordons have been found in the militancy-hit Kashmir Valley.   Details – Bodies such as the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) and the Defence Intelligence Agencies (DIA) have been tasked… Continue reading Iridium Phones