ISW Desk

About 40 per cent of the world's population lives within 100 km of the coastline making it crucial to have a healthy marine ecosystem as these people are the direct beneficiaries of the marine food web.  Anthropogenic stressors such as…
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Agriculture and allied sectors contribute 17.8 percent of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The monsoon accounts for over 70 percent of country’s annual rainfall and has an enormous impact on Indian economy. The Ministry of Earth…
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The 40th International congress of the Indian National Cartographic Association (INCA) began at Kolkata today. The three-day meet organised by the National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO), of the Union Ministry of Science…
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Novel coronavirus took many lives globally but the number of deaths recorded was more in Europe and in the United States than in Asia countries particularly east Asia. A team of scientists from the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics…
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We have seen how lockdown has positively impacted the environment in a big way. It seems to have helped water bodies too. A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur) has studied the occurrence of…
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According to the third national serological-survey report of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), over 21 percent of the population, aged 18 years and above, showed evidence of past exposure to COVID-19. The data on sero…
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Equipping and training paramilitary forces engaged in maintaining the law and order situation in the country is important.  With a view to elevate modern technical support to the forces, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-…
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In the newly elected US President Joe Biden’s team there is already 20 people who have some Indian origin connections. This count has further gone up as Bhavya Lal Indian-American Bhavya Lal has been appointed as the Acting Chief of Staff…
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The Ministry of Science and Technology (S&T) has been allocated Rs 14,793.66 crore in the budget 2021-22, a 20 percent increase from the current fiscal. The Ministry of S&T has three departments — The Department of Science and…
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As a result of the lockdowns imposed by many nations to control the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, a dramatic decline in air pollution was observed across the globe which in turn is found to be affecting the local weather. Seizing this as…
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