What is Daylight Saving Time?The rationale behind setting clocks ahead of standard time, usually by 1 hour during springtime, is to ensure that the clocks show a later sunrise and later sunset — in effect a longer evening daytime.daylight saving time, DST, What is daylight saving time, what is dst, dst time difference, time difference […]
Read MoreClimate change is exacerbating India’s nutrition and health insecurity WHO estimated that climate change could lead to 250,000 deaths annually between 2030 and 2050. The poorest people, suffering from highest rates of undernutrition, are most vulnerable. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (October 2018) shared that human activities have led to a 1°C (0.8°C to 1.2°C) […]
Read MoreBiofuels Biofuels are fuels manufactured from biomass. Biomass resources are the biodegradable fraction of products, wastes, and residues from agriculture, forestry andrelated industries as well as the biodegradable fraction of industrial and municipal wastes. BIOFUELS GENERATION CHARACTERISTICS REMARKS FIRST Produced from food crops like maize, corn, sugar cane, rapeseed, palm, and soybean into ethanol and biodiesel, using a similar process to that used […]
Read MoreStatus of Rhinoceros There are three species of rhino in Asia—greater one-horned, Javan and Sumatran. Javan and Sumatran Rhino are critically endangered but the greater one-horned (or Indian) rhino vulnerable. Once ranging from China to Bangladesh, the Javan and Sumatran rhinos are nearing extinction. There are no rhinos in Bhutan, but some from the Manas National […]
Read MoreGlobal warming: Indian leaders can learn from Ocasio-Cortez how to push a climate change policy US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was able to generate a lot of buzz over her climate resolution because she got the timing, the language, and the message right. Recent climate-change-related disasters were fresh in the mind of Americans and the resolution avoided […]
Read MoreWestern Disturbance According to India Meteorological Department (IMD), this winter season’s most powerful Western Disturbance (WD) is all set to hit north India. Already, six to seven WDs have affected north India in February 2019, while a few more western disturbances are expected by March 1. WD or the areas of “disturbed air pressure” traveling to India from the west are a regular […]
Read MoreCabinet approves Swadesh Darshan Scheme: Integrated Development of Theme-based Tourist Circuits in the country The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the following proposals: Continuation of the Swadesh Darshan Scheme during 14th Finance Commission period and beyond; Rs. 2055.96 crores for 60 on-going projects completing in December 2019; and Rs. 324.09 crores for […]
Read MoreRooftop Solar Programme for achieving cumulative capacity of 40,000 MW from Rooftop Solar Projects by the year 2022 The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for the Phase-II of Grid Connected Rooftop Solar Programme for achieving cumulative capacity of 40,000 MW from Rooftop Solar […]
Read MoreA viable financial mechanism must be evolved to remove pollutants in power plants The effort to clean up India’s thermal power plants running on coal has never really taken off, despite the Ministry of Environment notifying emission limits for major pollutants such as suspended particulate matter, sulphur oxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury in December 2015. Considering that […]
Read MoreA frank policy document is usually a contradiction in terms in India. Problem statements are given short shrift, achievements—especially those of the government of the day—are trumpeted, challenges are almost never addressed with any degree of transparency, failures are sought to be erased from public memory, learnings are ignored. If data is massaged, no one […]
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