- Lucknow: UNESCO creative city of gastronomy
- culinary tourism: old awadhi cuisine
- food based entrepreneurship; sustainable tourism
- Cloud seeding 20% AgI, rock salt & NaCl → just add water to already present clouds
- Warm clouds: adding more water to clouds with minimum quantity of water
- enhancing only monsoonal rainfall
- Some rivers of Odisha in news: Dhamra, Devi & Rasikulya- ban on fishing
- olive ridley conservation
- AMR: discarded cigarette butts ⇒ breeding grounds for superbugs (drug resistant bacteria)
- AMR 2.0: 2025-29 → curb antibiotic use in animals
- Nanotechnology in combatting obesity - activated gold nanoparticles may fight obesity
- Undertrials: 70% of India’s prisoners still awaiting trial ~NALSAR report
- GSAT 7R - India’s heaviest communication satellite
- IndQA, MMMLU, openAI
- wetland and RAMSAR sites of Assam: deepor beel, laokhowa, rowmari-donduwa
- AI governance guidelines 2025
- generational tobacco ban by maldives
- Fuijan: aircraft carrier of china
- 1 menstrual paid leave by Karnataka
- DPDP act in force
- AMRIT pharmacy by health Min
- Calcutta’s uni initialtive to protect endangered lang (lodha, toto)
- Air pollution- loss of 1.36% GDP
- unified airshed management plan
- happy seeder, bio-decomposer
- not an act of nature but consequence of choices
- global eg: London (pea-souper), Beijing
- Hayli Gubbi volcano
- African grey parrot- endangered
- Implementation of 4 new labour codes
- 29 fragmented laws replaced
- Code on wages 2019
- Industrial relations code 2020
- code on social security 2020
- Occupational safety, health & working conditions code 2020
- australia-canada-india technology & innovation partnership to boost AI @G20, South Africa
- Operation SAGAR BANDHU to help Sri lanka → cyclone Ditwah
- NCDC: for social media integration to study disease patterns, strengthen health security