CURRENT AFFAIRS

Highlighting the need for urgent climate action, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Synthesis Report for the Sixth Assessment Cycle on March 20 in Interlaken, Switzerland.

Recently, The Supreme Court on March 21 asked the Centre to provide data which may point to a more dignified, less painful and socially acceptable method of executing prisoners other than death by hanging.

The Bar Council of India (BCI), a statutory body governing legal practice in India, has framed Rules that allow foreign lawyers to visit India on a temporary period for giving legal advice to their clients.

United States President Joe Biden unveiled a deal to sell the U.S. Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia and to provide American technology for the production of such submarines in British and Australian facilities.

A recent discovery of rocks made of plastic debris in the remote Brazilian Island of Tridade, which hosts a range of rare marine species, has sparked alarm among scientists.

Recently, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders launched a short hunger strike seeking early passage of the long-pending Women’s Reservation Bill.

The world today is home to a transformative generation of 900 million adolescent girls and young women poised to shape the future of work and growth.

Country faces the H3N2 subtype of seasonal influenza which has infected rising numbers of people.

Recently, social workers rescued a 14-year-old girl from a Gurugram home where she was employed as a domestic worker.

There are around 100 waste-to-energy projects around the country but only a handful of them are operational, thanks to various production and operation challenges.