Marketplace (GeM), launched in 2019, aims to enhance startup, women, and youth
participation in public procurement, with startups fulfilling ₹35,950 Cr in
orders and a goal to onboard 1 lakh startups and double women entrepreneurs’
participation.
2. NASA's SPHEREx telescope, set for a two-year
mission, will study cosmic inflation, map 450 million galaxies in 102
wavelengths, and explore the universe’s origins, launching alongside the PUNCH
mission to study the Sun’s solar wind.
3. Tribal families, which once inhabited the Similipal Tiger Reserve
(STR) in Odisha, have alleged that their rights to continue their age-old
rituals in the sacred forest groves have been denied following the
translocation of a tigress from Maharashtra.
4.The Spices Board
is working with the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and
other regulatory agencies to bring in more regulations for the industry to
usher in sustainable approaches and conservation-driven strategies to develop
the industry.