Transit Oriented Development: Building Walkable Cities
Why in news? The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has begun work on the East Delhi Hub project near Karkardooma metro station. This flagship Transit ...
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Why in news? The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has begun work on the East Delhi Hub project near Karkardooma metro station. This flagship Transit ...
Why in news? The Department of Telecommunications has launched a pilot called Samriddh Gram to bring the benefits of high‑speed internet and digital...
Why in news? Indian herpetologists have described a new species of slender gecko from the sacred Venkatadri hills in Andhra Pradesh. Named Hemiphyllod...
Why in news? The Ministry of Coal unveiled two digital platforms — the Koyla Shakti dashboard and the Coal Land Acquisition Management and Rehabilit...
Why in news? The Ministry of Panchayati Raj and the Department of School Education have jointly launched a Model Youth Gram Sabha initiative. The prog...
Why in news? The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has dispatched the first air shipment of Indi Lime from...
Why in news? Nature enthusiasts in Karwar, Karnataka, recently spotted a large Atlas moth in the Guddehalli forest area. Photographs of the striking i...
Why in news? Forest officials in Uttar Pradesh have arrested four people for illegally felling khair trees in the Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary. The a...
Why in news? The 20th East Asia Summit (EAS) was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 27 October 2025. Leaders adopted the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on t...
Why in news? Brazil, supported by the United Kingdom, has launched the AmazonFACE experiment to understand how the Amazon rainforest will respond to r...
Why in news? India’s latest performance on the Human Development Index (HDI) has been highlighted in the United Nations Development Programme’s 20...
Why in news? On 27 October 2025, Gursharan Singh, Head of the Loktak project at NHPC Ltd and newly appointed General Manager (Electrical), met Manipur...
Why in news? Palaeontologists in China have described a new species of the ancient fish genus Whiteia based on two fossil specimens from the Early Tri...
Why in news? On 27 October 2025, the Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, inaugurated a state‑of‑the‑art s...
Why in news? In late October 2025, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) signed a Memorandum of Underst...
Why in news? On 28 October 2025, the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) announced a comprehensive set of reforms to enhance transparency, efficienc...
Why in news? The Ministry of Coal is preparing to launch Koyla Shakti, a Smart Coal Analytics Dashboard designed to serve as a unified, real‑time mo...
Why in news? On 28 October 2025, a small aircraft (Cessna 206H) conducted a cloud‑seeding trial over parts of Delhi amid severe air pollution. The e...
Why in news? On 29 October 2025, the Supreme Court of India delivered a judgment clarifying that the doctrine of merger is not an inflexible rule appl...
Why in news? On 26 October 2025, the Department of School Education & Literacy and the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities jointly ...