Indore Cleanest City for 4th Time in A Row
Indore was adjudged India’s cleanest city for the fourth time in a row while Kolkata was worst performer in the central government’s cleanliness survey announced on Tuesday.
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Total Forest and Tree Cover in India Rises to 24.56% Percent
Announcing the results, the Union Minister said that India is among few countries in the world where forest cover is consistently increasing. Shri Javadekar told that in the present assessment, the total forest and tree cover of the country is 80.73 million hectare which is 24.56 per cent of the geographical area of the country.
300 Bangladeshis Held Crossing from India this Year
More than 300 Bangladeshis have been apprehended this year while crossing from the Indian side to Bangladesh for lack of travel documents, Border Guards Bangladesh chief Major General Shafeenul Islam said on Sunday
Iranian National Staying in India for 11 Years as Buddhist Monk Held
The arrested man has been identified as one Hamed Akbari, a resident of Rajakan area of Tehran, the capital of Iran, said AK Pankaj, DSP immigration posted at Raxaul.
Modi is Completing the Nation-Building Process
The unfinished business of nation-building being attempted was always guaranteed to be difficult since new perceptions and sensibilities have to be implanted and become the default norm. It will unavoidably challenge extant fissured self-identification and imperil them, nothing more assured to unsettle and provoke unrest.
Home Ministry Relaxes Travel Conditions for OCI Cardholders
An Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholder is required to re-register each time a new passport is issued till 20 years of age and once after 50 years of age, the ministry spokesperson said on twitter. This is not mandatory in the age group of 21-50 years, she said.
India’s Terror Combat Agency Raids Anti CAA Activist’s House
According to a senior NIA official, they had inputs that Gogoi and his associates had been working in close coordination with Maoists, trying to spread the functioning of the leftists in the state of Assam.
Modi Flags Off Groundwater Scheme Atal Bhujal Yojana (AJY)
The Union Cabinet sanctioned Rs 6,000 crore for the scheme, Atal Bhujal Yojana (AJY), on Dec 24, 2019, An equivalent amount was approved by the World Bank, the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti — India’s renamed water resources ministry — Minister of State for Jal Shakti & Social Justice and Empowerment Rattan Lal Kataria told Lok Sabha on Dec 12.
CRPF Initiative to Save Natural Water Sources, Create Artificial Ponds in Chhattisgarh
A CRPF official said a recent survey found that these water bodies constitute around 95 per cent of the total water source for the villagers in the region following which the step has been taken to save water bodies which have dried up.
“At least a dozen of villages have been identified where either natural ponds will be rejuvenated or the force will create artificial ponds,” a CRPF official of 195 Battalion deployed in Abujmad told.
Explained: What is A ‘Core Catcher’ In A nuclear Plant?
According to the Rosatom website, the core catcher is a cone shaped metal structure that weighs about 800 tonnes. The structure is double walled, with the gap between the two walls filled with FAOG (ferric and aluminium oxide granules). The core catcher is filled with a ceramic mixture also including ferric oxide and aluminium oxide, called ‘sacrificial material’.