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The 15^th Finance Commission is learnt to have recommended that states get 41% of central tax revenues, the same level that it proposed in its interim report for 2020-21 a year ago.

India has shared moments under the presidency of Trump, having too many shades, be it unwarranted interference in Kashmir issue by the US President or his browbeating on supply

Vietnam’s total merchandise exports grew at an annualised average rate of 18 per cent in the last 10 years till 2019, as compared with India’s 5 per cent.

Delhi has reported over 6,000 new Covid cases every day since November 3 and 13 per cent of this may be linked to increased air pollution, stated by the Indian Medical Association.

Celebration of World Food Day on 16^th October. This year's World Food Day is dedicated to highlight food and agriculture as a significant part of COVID-19 response system.

A star campaigner is a leader who seeks vote for his party during the election. He or she can be a politician or even a film star. There is no strict law governing who can or cannot be made a star campaigner.

A controversy has sparked in Guwahati, Assam, over the proposed museum reflecting the culture of 'Char-Chapori' people in the Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra.

Biodiversity hotspots across the world have lost 148 million hectares of land to agriculture and urbanization in 24 years.

The highest rainfall in a century received in Hyderabad raised demand for concrete action such as transformation into Sponge cities.

NASA discovers water on sunlit surface of the Moon.NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has detected water molecules (H₂O) in Clavius Crater