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Maharashtra’s Urban Maoism Bill
Why in news? The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly passed the Maharashtra Special Public Security (MSPS) Bill 2025, commonly known as the “Urban Maoi...
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Why in news? The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly passed the Maharashtra Special Public Security (MSPS) Bill 2025, commonly known as the “Urban Maoi...
Why in news? The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment’s 2022 report revealed that most cases filed under the Protection of Civil Rights (PCR) ...
Why in news? Indian researchers announced progress in developing tandem solar cells that pair traditional silicon with perovskite materials. The proto...
Why in news? Persistent droughts in Bundelkhand and recurrent floods along Bangladesh’s Jamuna River illustrate how climate change is driving people...
Why in news? Despite almost universal bank account ownership, new data from CMIE and Piramal Enterprises show that poor households increasingly rely o...
Why in news? Astronomers confirmed that a comet designated 3I/Atlas is only the third interstellar object ever observed passing through our solar syst...
Why in news? The ICMR–National Institute of Epidemiology launched a three‑year intervention in Punjab and Telangana after finding that Indians are...
Why in news? The investigation into the Air India Flight AI171 crash revealed that inadvertent movement of fuel control switches to the “cut‑off...
Why in news? India has started Phase 3 trials for its first home‑grown dengue vaccine, involving over 8,000 participants across 20 centres. The vac...
Why in news? Three Indian fertiliser companies—Indian Potash Limited (IPL), Krishak Bharati Cooperative (KRIBHCO) and Coromandel International—sig...
Why in news? More than 4,000 refugees from Myanmar’s Chin State crossed into Mizoram’s Champhai district in July 2025 following clashes between r...
Why in news? The National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) cleared the Durgapur Open‑cast Coal Mine project in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district, located...
Why in news? The Supreme Court of India heard two cases involving inflammatory posts and cartoons on social media. The judges warned that the growing ...
Why in news? In July 2025, the Environment Ministry exempted nearly three‑quarters of India’s coal‑powered thermal plants from installing flue g...
Why in news? Tiwai Island and the adjoining Gola Rainforest in Sierra Leone were recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in July 2025. This mile...
Why in news? Researchers at the Raman Research Institute in India reported that quantum noise—traditionally viewed as a destructive disturbance—ca...
Why in news? China unveiled a new high‑speed magnetic levitation (maglev) train capable of covering the 1,200 km distance between Beijing and Shangh...
Why in news? Data shared by Tamil Nadu’s Health Department shows that TB deaths have declined by 20 % after the launch of the TN‑KET initiative,...
Why in news? The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) released a whitepaper outlining a roadmap to transition India’s digital infrastructure to qu...
Why in news? At the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee, UNESCO inscribed twelve fortified hilltop sites of the Maratha kingdom on the World ...