Where the house sparrow nest: preference shifts to packed places
World sparrow day on 20th march.
Parrotfish in Andaman
C new study has suggested.
Honey as a pollution detector
In a recent survey of urban beehives around Vancouver, published recently in Nature Sustainability , showed that the hives’ honey contained minute levels of lead, especially downtown and near the city’s port.
India-UK relations
Britain has acknowledged that securing a Free Trade Agreement with India will not be its immediate priority as it prepares to leave the EU and focusses on “first-tier” countries.
The country Human Rights reports-2018
The country Human Rights reports for 2018 were released as part of an annual exercise in which the U.S. State Department submits its assessment of such rights as per the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the U.S. Congress.
Need to give permanent status to Finance Commission: RBI Governor
Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das said “increasingly it is felt that there is a need to give permanent status” to the Finance Commission.
Govt.’s prerogative to frame schemes: SC
Supreme Court has said in a judgment that, it is the sole prerogative of the government to frame schemes and courts should stay out of governance.
How Lokpal will form, function
A selection panel finalised the name of former SC judge Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose as the first head of the Lokpal, a national anti-corruption ombudsman.
Dry eye disease epidemic
For the first time, a large-scale, hospital-based study in India involving over 14.5 lakh patients had found the incidence (number of new cases occurring each year) of dry eye disease to be 21,000 (1.46%).
Japan to make crater on asteroid
Japan’s space agency said that its Hayabusa2 spacecraft will drop an explosive on an asteroid to make a crater and then collect underground samples for possible clues to the origin of the solar system.