Context Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), in its World Energy Outlook 2023, report has highlighted that India’s Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC), 2017 for commercial buildings sets it apart from…
Context The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has brought under its direct regulation all entities termed as Payment Aggregator-Cross Border (PA-CB) facilitating cross-border payments for import and export of goods…
Context Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of Public Sector Undertakings under Ministry of Power, launched its groundbreaking National Efficient Cooking Programme (NECP) and Energy Efficient Fans Programme…
Context The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced a city mayor, a non-profit foundation, a social enterprise, a government initiative and a research council as its Champions of the Earth…
Context This year, India banned the export of non-basmati white rice amid depleting public stock in the Central pool, elevated cereal prices, and looming threat of the uneven monsoon. How…
Context Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire near London was chosen to host the world’s first ever Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit. Twenty-eight major countries including the United States, China, Japan, the United…
Context The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) this month granted market authorisation for NexCAR19, India’s first indigenously-developed CAR-T cell therapy, to ImmunoACT, a company incubated by IIT Bombay. This paves…
Context The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) recently granted approval for the establishment of the 54th tiger reserve in Rajasthan’s Karauli and Dholpur districts. This decision marks a significant stride…
Context On the sidelines of the annual G-20 summit in New Delhi, an India-led grouping came together to give impetus to the production and use of biofuels, an alternative to…
Context India has become an OIML certificate-issuing authority. The Legal Metrology Division, Department of Consumer Affairs, is now authorised to issue OIML certificates. What is the OIML? The OIML stands…
