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A Parsi funeral, or Dokhmenashini, is a unique practice that involves placing a deceased person's body in a Tower of Silence (Dakhma) to be returned to nature. 

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the International Methanol Seminar and Exhibition in New Delhi.

Freedom House, a non-profit organization, has released the annual 'Freedom on the Net Report'.

The Indian Constitution is federal and has adopted a dual polity (Centre and State), but it provides for only single citizenship i.e. Indian citizenship. There is no separate citizenship system for the states here. Other federal states, such as the US and Switzerland, have adopted a dual citizenship system.

India has decided to recall its High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and other senior diplomats from Canada. Along with this, India has also expelled six Canadian diplomats. Thus the diplomatic relations between the two countries have reached a low level.

The Roopkund lake in Uttarakhand is shrinking every year due to climate change. Policy intervention is needed to preserve it.

Uttar Pradesh government will establish the country's first Hindi literature museum in Kashi (Varanasi).

The Nobel Prize in Economics for the year 2024 has been awarded to American economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. They have been given this award for the study of how institutions are built and how they affect prosperity. They have promoted the understanding of the root causes of the success or failure of countries.

Recently, 'Living Planet Report 2024' was released regarding the status of wildlife.

The US has announced the deployment of Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense or ‘THAAD’ system in Israel. The THAAD anti-ballistic missile defense system has been designed and manufactured by the American company Lockheed Martin.