Why in news? =>Kuligod in Karnataka’s Belagavi district is the country’s best developed village, but more than a third of the gram panchayats ranked in the top 10 are in Andhra Pradesh, a... Read more

Why in news? =>The government has allocated more than 30% funds for women under various major schemes, programs and development related activities in order to bring women in the agricultu... Read more

Why in news? =>In September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened a nationwide movement, Swachhata Hi Seva (Cleanliness is Service) as part of his flagship program Swachh Bharat or Clean I... Read more

Why in news? =>India’s under-five mortality rate (U-5MR) dropped four points in a single year in 2016, to 39 deaths per 1,000 live births from 43 in 2015. Apart from being the sharpest fa... Read more

Why in news? =>The Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 has been awarded to Congolese gynaecologist Dr. Denis Mukwege and Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use o... Read more

Why in news? =>The devastating floods in Kerala claimed nearly 500 lives, displaced over a million people, and directly affected over a sixth of the State’s total population. The State go... Read more

Why in news? =>Scientists at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research’s National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL), which maintains Indian Standard Time, have published a research... Read more

Why in news? =>Alphonso from Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Palghar, Thane and Raigad districts of  Maharashtra, is registered as Geographical Indication (GI).  About ‘Alphonso’: =>The king of... Read more

Why in news? =>While recently releasing the book, ‘Supporting Indian Farms, The Smart Way’ (editors, Ashok Gulati, Marco Ferroni and Yuan Zhou), Union Finance Minister  remarked that Indi... Read more

Why in news? =>A joint exercise is being conducted by IIT Gandhinagar and the India Meteorological Department (IMD), for the first time, provides a country-wide soil moisture forecast at... Read more