CURRENT AFFAIRS

The chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya signed a pact in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to resolve part of their five-decade-old boundary dispute.

Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba will pay a three-day visit to India from April 1 to inject a new momentum in bilateral ties, especially in areas of trade, investment, healthcare and connectivity.

The  economic crisis in Sri Lanka is due to a serious balance of payments (BoP) problem as its foreign exchange reserves are depleting rapidly.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the 5th BIMSTEC Summit said the region is facing challenges of health and economic security, due to which the need of the hour is unity and cooperation.

India’s criminal justice regime is beset with problems which seem ingrained in not only the constitutive fabric of institutions, but also in the psyche of their functionaries.

Recently, the management authority of the world’s largest coral reef system, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, confirmed that the reef is experiencing a mass coral bleaching event.

Scientists have discovered microplastics in human blood for the first time, warning that the ubiquitous particles could also be making their way into organs.

The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the resilience of the global community on various fronts like whether the global community can unite to ensure the availability of COVID-19 medical products for everyone.

Biologists from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad (CCMB) found a clue from an organism that has been around from 2 billion years ago as to how mitochondria became an inseparable part of animal and plant cells.

Recently, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a consensus Resolution declaring March 15 annually as the ‘International Day to Combat Islamophobia’.