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Why in news? The Union Cabinet approved a grant of ₹2,000 crore over four years to the National Cooperative Development Corporation in July 2025. Th...
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Why in news? The Union Cabinet approved a grant of ₹2,000 crore over four years to the National Cooperative Development Corporation in July 2025. Th...
Why in news? A Bengaluru‑based company called Protoplanet inaugurated the Human Outer Planetary Exploration (HOPE) station in Ladakh’s Tso Kar re...
Why in news? On 1 August 2025, India observed the 105th death anniversary of Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The Union Home Minister paid tribute to this pioneer...
Why in news? In July 2025, India commissioned its first indigenously developed 1‑megawatt green hydrogen plant at Deendayal Port in Kandla, Gujarat....
Why in news? In late July 2025 the United States Department of State imposed sanctions on 20 companies worldwide—six of them based in India—for al...
Why in news? China recently approved construction of a gigantic 60‑gigawatt hydropower dam at the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet�...
Why in news? On Global Tiger Day 2025, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change released a report titled “Status of Small Cats in Tige...
Why in news? On 31 July 2025, India successfully launched the NASA–ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite aboard a Geosynchronous Satellite...
Why in news? An inspiring story from Thanjavur circulated in July 2025 about Mani Maran, an archivist and teacher dedicated to preserving Tamil palm�...
Why in news? The US President declared that, starting 1 August 2025, Indian exports to the United States would face an additional 25 per cent tariff...
Why in news? An 8.8‑magnitude earthquake off Russia’s far eastern coast in July 2025 was followed by increased activity at the Klyuchevskoy volcan...
Why in news? The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) announced in July 2025 that the number of unique trading accounts had surpassed 23 crore, onl...
Why in news? The Banking Laws (Amendment) Act 2025 came into force on 1 August 2025. The Act amends several banking statutes to modernise governance,...
Why in news? A recent science column highlighted the Indian harmonium for its ingenious mechanical design and enduring role in Indian music. Unlike el...
Why in news? At the 15th Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, on 30 July 2025...
Why in news? Scientists from Chile’s Catholic University warned in July 2025 that at least ten beaches along the country’s central and southern co...
Why in news? An earthquake of magnitude 8.8 struck Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula in July 2025. The undersea quake triggered a tsunami that pro...
Why in news? A recent study of Annual Survey of Industries data from 1999–2019 revealed that contract labour in India’s formal manufacturing secto...
Why in news? The International Monetary Fund’s July 2025 World Economic Outlook update revised India’s growth forecast upward to 6.4% for both fin...
Why in news? The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted two successive flight‑tests of the Pralay quasi‑ballistic missile ...