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Election Expenditure in India | Trends and Challenges
<p>The last Lok Sabha election of 2014 was the most expensive election in the history of Indian democracy with a cost of Rs 3,426 crores incurred by the national exchequer. This represented an increas...
Geo-Spatial Applications by NRDMS- Groundwater Mapping
<p>Groundwater can be termed as the water found below the ground in the spaces in soil and between rocks. Geological formations known as aquifers are underground layers which store and pass on groundw...
Vaishno Devi Pilgrimage Resumes after Fire in Trikuta Hills
<p>Devotees on pilgrimage in the Vaishno Devi Yatra in Jammu & Kashmir were stranded after 25,000 pilgrims had registered for a trek at 3:30 pm on May 23rd, 2018 due to a forest fire in Trikuta Hi...
त्रिकुटा पहाड़ी के जंगलों में लगी आग व भारत में वनाग्नि
<p>जम्मू स्थित वैष्णो देवी मंदिर, जहां दर्शन के लिए देश भर से प्रतिदिन औसतन 35000 श्रद्धालु आते हैं, में यात्रा को फिलहाल टाल दिया गया है। वजह है वनाग्नि या दावानल। अब इन श्रद्धालुओं को जंगलों में लग...
NASA Finding throws light on Rising Global Methane Emissions
<p>Global methane emissions have been markedly increasing in recent years, with a large contributor being emissions from the global oil and gas industry. It is estimated that methane emissions globall...
अंतरराष्ट्रीय जैव विविधता दिवस 2018
<p>22 मई, 2018 को पूरे विश्व में ‘अंतरराष्ट्रीय जैव विविधता दिवस’ का आयोजन हुआ। इस वर्ष इस दिवस की थीम है ‘जैव विविधता के लिए 25 वर्षों की कार्रवाई का उत्सव ‘ (Celebrating 25 Years of Action for Biodi...
Ageing in India and Standard of Living
<p>A country with a high standard of living and medical advancement should not bear an ageing burden. However, this might not be the case in India, with economic support for its ageing population beco...
Rural Poverty Alleviation Programmes in India
<p>These discussions on poverty in India culminated in an expert committee being appointed by the Planning Commission in 1977 under the economist Y. K. Alagh that looked to produce a methodology for m...