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The Reserve Bank of India launched the digital rupee on a pilot basis. The digital currency will be offered by a select group of public and private banks in a few major cities initially, which can be used for both person-to-person and person-to-merchant transactions.

For conservation of animals large land acquisition is not required, rather it is the small, strategic pieces of land that are crucial.

November 25 is celebrated every year as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Recently, the Supreme Court said the government pays mere “lip-service” to the independence of the Election Commissioners and this is evident from the way the tenures of Chief Election Commissioners (CECs) have “slid” down from over eight years in the 1950s to just about a few hundred days after 2004.

Recently, e-services at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were crippled by a suspected ransomware attack.

The Indian rupee has fallen more than 11 percent against the US dollar so far in 2022 and breached the much-feared 80-mark in July and went on to set record lows, touching 83 to a dollar late in October.

A Supreme Court Bench issued notices to the Centre and the Attorney General of India, seeking their response to allow solemnisation of same-sex marriage under the Special Marriage Act, (SMA) 1954.

Cybersecurity experts note that apps that let users connect smartphones or laptops to wireless earplugs can record conversations, and are vulnerable to hacks.

A new study projects that climate change will significantly impact El Niño-La Niña weather patterns approximately by 2030.

As per the special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change has affected food security due to global warming, changing precipitation patterns and greater frequency of extreme events thus affecting crop yields and lowering animal growth rates and livestock productivity in developing nations.