TITBITS:
1. India to enter into carbon credit adjustment
mechanism with Japan – carbon emission reduction credits can be shared between
the countries.
2. Global Education Monitoring
Report of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): A
10-year-old in 2024 will experience twice as many wildfires and tropical
cyclones, three times more river floods, four times more crop failures, and
five times more droughts over her lifetime in a 3°C global warming pathway than
a 10-year-old in 1970.
3.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of USD 240.5 million to
finance rooftop solar systems in India.
4.
Recent data showed that the Maize production in India has more than
tripled(from 11.5 million tonnes to over 35 million tonnes) over the last two
decades, that has now gone from being a feed crop to a fuel crop.
5.
Efforts are undertaken to raise awareness about Thangka art(Tibetan
artform traditionally created on rich cotton or silk
applique) at Delhi’s Majnu Ka Tila.
6.
Recently, India’s External Affairs Minister reaffirmed its support to Mauritius
on the issue of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean against the United
Kingdom.
7.
Asia’s first Pre-clinical Network Facility for health study was opened in
Faridabad, Haryana.
8.
Recent study has revealed that Florida carpenter ants (Camponotus floridanus)
perform life-saving surgeries on injured nestmates to improve their survival
chances.