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Why in News?The Union Budget for 2021-22 has announced a National Hydrogen Energy Mission (NHM) that will draw up a road map for using hydrogen as an energy source.The initiative has the potential of transforming transportation.NHMinitiative will capitalise o

Why in News?Recently on the occasion of the World Youth Skills Day, PM Narendra Modi argued that India had laid the foundation for improving the level of skill among the youth.Key Points:According to most estimates India continues to be a country that faces one of

Why in News?UN climate talks in Scotland has concluded with a global agreement aimed at keeping alive hopes of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and so maintain a realistic shot at saving the world from catastrophic climate change.About:The “Glasgow climat

Why in News?Expert Group unveils report on base revision of Wage Rate Index (WRI) to 2016=100 from base 1963-65=100.Related Facts:The new series of Wage Rate Index (WRI) with base year 2016=100, is being compiled and maintained by Labour Bureau, an attached office

Why in News?Less than one in 10 men use condoms in India, while nearly four in 10 women undergo sterilisation to avoid pregnancy, according to the latest National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-21), which also shows that female sterilisation continues to be on the rise.Related fac

Why in News?Seijosa circle in Arunachal Pradesh’s Pakke-Kessang district has been witnessing  climate change for the past decade-and-a-half.Seijosa, one of the five administrative divisions of the district, has a population of around 4,000 across 19 villages.It lies

Why in News?With a view to creating awareness among consumers of fossil fuels, the Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas launched a month-long campaign outlining the adverse health and environmental impacts of rising carb

Why in News?The first-ever Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) prepared by government think tank NITI Aayog has recently said that Bihar has the highest proportion of people, at 51.91 per cent of the state’s population, who are multidimensionally poor, followed by Jharkhand

Why in News?India’s move to release 5 million barrels of oil from its strategic reserves as part of a coordinated challenge led by the US against the OPEC+ producers’ cartel’s move to curb output, is the first time that New Delhi would be dipping into its reserves

In News- Recently, Scientists from the Bombay Natural History Society published a research paper on the forgotten butterflies of Matheran in the community peer-reviewed ‘Biodiversity Data Journal’.Scientists found 140 rare species of