Author: Shreeyashi Ojha

Hailed innumerably, a landmark US bill approved by the US Senate as a game changer for American and global efforts to tackle the root causes of rising temperatures. Source: Bing images Climate change, the global truth and often seen as the “necessary evil to growth” has been an agenda for the governments of the world for a long time. However, much of the discussion that has been held on such a grave topic, seems merely equivalent to a tea party!  Not taken seriously the problem is only rising and no one is accountable for it. The first world neglects the…

In lieu of negotiating the new FTA, the UK is looking to negotiate in record time to ‘double trade with India by 2030’. UK-India trade deal could lead to toxic pesticides being allowed in India. Source: Bing images London: The recession is on the brink and it is affecting all the nation. The political situation in the U.K. is quite unstable and so is the economy. However, with a view to negotiating the new Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in record time in order to double trade with India, a trade deal between the UK and India is struck. By 2030,…

A bizarre incident was witnessed in which tens of thousands of ‘dead fish have washed up along the Klamath River in northern California. Source: Bing images “Tens of thousands” of dead fish have washed up along the Klamath River in the area of Happy Camp in northern California this week — a phenomenon that’s tied to a dangerous combination of flash flooding and the McKinney Fire that’s burning in the area, according to Craig Tucker, a policy advocate for the Karuk Tribe. The blaze, which has killed at least four people, erupted on July 29 in the Klamath National Forest…

ISRO has developed the SSLV to put in low earth orbit satellites weighing less than 500 kg. Source: Bing images Sriharikota: In a revolutionary move, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) created history by successfully launching the maiden Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) which is an earth observation satellite and a student satellite from the spaceport in Sriharikota. ISRO’s maiden launch of a small satellite launch vehicle (SSLV), will deploy satellites in low earth orbit. Scientists at the ISRO have been engaged in developing small launch vehicles over the last few weeks to meet the demand for such small satellites,…

PM Modi chaired the meeting at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre in the national capital on Sunday. Source: Bing images New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi will chair the seventh meeting of the Governing Council of Niti Aayog at Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre in the national capital on Sunday. This would be the first in-person meeting of the Governing Council since July 2019. The agenda of the meeting includes crop diversification and achieving self-sufficiency in oilseeds and pulses and agri-communities; implementation of the National Education Policy-school education; implementation of the National Education Policy-higher education; and urban governance. In the drive toward building…

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Meets PM Modi, To request a timely release of funds due to the state on account of the implementation of various schemes. Source: Bing images New Delhi: Set in the backdrop of the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) raid at former cabinet minister of West Bengal, Parth Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee’s residence, Mamta Bannerjee visited the primus inter pares in Delhi. In general, Mamta Bannerjee has routinely criticized PM Modi and BJP and has often been seen taking a jibe at the latter, however, she seems awfully quiet since the biggest scams and raids took…

After Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China fires multiple missiles threatening an escalation. Source: Bing image USA entry into the conflict:- After Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China has begun a military exercise, firing multiple ballistic missiles posing an escalation to a full-blown war in an unmatched demonstration of power. An aircraft carrier with a nuclear submarine is leading the exercises, which are expected to last until Monday, as reported by China. The Taiwanese authorities confirmed that 11 Dongfeng were flown over the coastal regions to mark the commencement of the exercises along with fiery rhetoric and warnings to Taiwan’s…

Said Subhash Gupta who is the Deputy Chief of Mission, Indian Embassy at Hanoi, Vietnam. ‘National interest first priority for diplomats Patna: Bureaucracy comprises the permanent and professional dimension of the executive, working as the non-political or politically neutral, permanent, professionally trained executive supporting the administration of the state according to the policies laid down and under the control exercised by the political executive. An efficient and quality-based bureaucracy forecasts the stability and success of the state administration. The policies of the government are formulated with the help of the information and expertise provided by the bureaucracy, and they are…

Facing similar situations like Ukraine, amidst threats and warnings from Russia, both nations push to join NATO. Source: Bing images North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is a bone of contention between the East and the West. Since the cold war era, the world was divided between two blocks, NATO and Warsaw Pact. Around the same time, NAM also came into being, but could not curb the two nations from being at loggerheads with one another.  Moreover, the cold war era came to an end with the fall of the Berlin wall and the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. The…

What Al-Qaeda Chief Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Killing Means For India, he was killed in a drone strike by the United States, Zawahiri was one of the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks. Source: Bing images Infamous as the world’s No 1 terrorist, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been accused of being a mastermind of many attacks. He was killed in a drone strike by the United States at Kabul, the Capital of Afghanistan Another stealth attack by the US after the massacre of Osama Bin Laden in 2011, after whom Zawahiri had been acclaimed to be the supreme leader of Al Qaeda,…