• 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
      1. Code on wages 2019
      2. Industrial relations code 2020
      3. code on social security 2020
      4. 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