TITBITS:
1. According to the Directorate General of Health
Services, the incidence of infertility in eligible couples is approximately 14
per cent-16 percent.
2. A new species of loach, named Schistura
sonarengaensis, has been identified in Meghalaya’s South Garo Hills district,
close to the Bangladesh border. This freshwater bottom-dwelling fish was
discovered in Sonarenga, Nakama, and Chiabol caves within the district.
3. The Central government issued the sixth iteration
of a draft notification, declaring 56,825.7 sq km of the Western Ghats an
ecologically sensitive area (ESA) in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa,
Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
4. The country will receive normal or above normal
rainfall during the two remaining months of the ongoing monsoon season, The
all-India normal rainfall for August and September is 422.8mm (1971-2020 data)
and the forecast indicated that the country's rainfall during August and
September will be 106 per cent of this long period average.
5. Scientists from India and the UK have recently
discovered six new species of bent-toed geckos in Northeast India. (Namdapha
Bent-Toed Gecko, Siang River Bent-Toed Gecko: Ngengpui Bent-Toed Gecko,Manipur
Bent-Toed Gecko, Kiphire Bent-Toed Gecko, Barail Hill Bent-Toed Gecko )
6. Environment Performance Index-2024, Published by
Yale Centre for Environment Law & Policy (Yale University), Centre for
International Earth Science Information Network (Columbia University) ranked
India by 176 out of 180 countries.