Biodiversity governance Globally, the diversity of life on earth is declining due to human activities despite increasing efforts to address it. Global biodiversity loss has severe impacts on human well-being. There is an urgent need to transform the Convention on Biological…
Impact of climate change on the cryosphere The cryosphere is a large and important component of our earth, which has a profound impact and in turn is hugely impacted by climate and climate change. The cryosphere comprises of the Earth’s…
mRNA Vaccine In collaboration with HDT Biotech Corporation, Seattle, USA, Gennova has developed an mRNA vaccine candidate (HGCO19), with demonstrated safety, immunogenicity, neutralization antibody activity in the rodent and non-human primate models. The company is working aggressively to ensure first human…
Pfizer vaccine The US and Europe are in line to get the first doses of an experimental coronavirus vaccine after a partnership between Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE delivered dazzling preliminary results in a large patient trial. Regulators on both…
Roshni Act The Jammu and Kashmir government declared all land transfers that took place under the Jammu and Kashmir State Land (Vesting of Ownership to the Occupants) Act, 2001, also known as the Roshni Act. Initially, 1990 was set as…
French Secularism Secularism is the principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries. France has been one of the oldest democracies in the world with its approach towards citizen…
Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) The Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) refers to seven security forces in India under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Assam Rifles (AR) Border Security Force (BSF) Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Central…
The Road to Zero Hunger by 2030 The Zero Hunger Challenge was launched by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2012. The Zero Hunger vision reflects five elements from within the SDGs, which taken together, can end hunger, eliminate all forms…
Myopia Myopia or shortsightedness is turning out to be an epidemic across india, and indeed even more in Southeast Asia. At this rate, by 2050, 64 million children in urban India may have myopia The inability to see the distant objects…
EOS-01 Satellite It is an earth observation satellite. EOS-01 is nothing but another Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT) that will work together with RISAT-2B and RISAT-2BR1 launched last year. This is the first launch by the Indian Space Research Organisation since the COVID-19-induced…