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World Water Day is an annual United Nations (UN) observance day held on 22 March that highlights the importance of freshwater. The theme of this year’s World Water Day was ‘Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible’.

Amid economic growth, urbanisation, a steady increase in women’s literacy, and an overall decline in fertility rates, women in India have been dropping out or being pushed out of the workforce at an alarming rate.

Worsening climate change has been threatening to severely disrupt the stability of global climate, which in turn carries many devastating implications; therefore, the mitigation of global warming is a global public good.

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.