India and Japan signed a key defence agreement on September 9, 2020. Both the sides welcomed the signing of the pact. The pact establishes the enabling framework for closer cooperation between the Armed Forces of India and Japan in reciprocal provision of supplies and...

Though Covid-19 pandemic brought with it many side-effects, which shook the entire world, surge in child marriage in India is one of the unanticipated ones. As per an NGO, known as Childline India, thousands of child marriages were either solemnised or were about to...

India is deploying many the strategies to check the proliferation of the Corona virus. However, the desired results are still far away as hundred per cent practicability of the strategies is somehow impossible, particularly in the face of over- burdened healthcare...

On September 20, 2020, the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has asked the Supreme Court to make its code of ethics, applicable to all TV news channels, against airing malicious, biased, and regressive content. The NBA suggested that the court to direct the...

On September 4, 2020, the 12th BRICS meeting was held via video-conference in which ministers of Foreign Affairs/ International Relations participated under the Chairmanship of the Russian Federation. They exchanged views on major international and regional issues in...

As the use of social media is increasing day by day, data privacy has become all the more concerned issue in the entire world. On many occasions, at national and international stages, the issue has emerged stages gross misuse of social media is the need of the hour...

On September 21, 2020, Ang Rita Sherpa, 72, known as the ‘snow leopard,’ and ten-time Everester as well as conservator, breathed his last at his residence in Jorpati, Kathmandu . He has won several awards as a an extremely successful Sherpa, a clan of Himalayan...

The trophy presenters wore tuxedo hazmat suits, created and designed by costume designer Katja Cahill and executive producer Guy Carrington, at 72nd Emmy Awards with a view to the safety measures amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Cahill usually dresses presenters at the...

On September 20, 2020, the commercial launch of the Tata CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) Covid-19 test, ‘Feluda’, has been approved by the Drugs Controller General of India. The test uses an indigenously developed, cutting-edge...

On September 21, the UN designated World Peace Day is observed every year since 1981. On this day, the world body encourages countries to observe the day by adhering to ‘24 hours of non-violence’. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted in 2001 to call for...

On September 21, 2020, the first ever Cargo Ferry Service, the MCP Linz, was jointly launched between India and the Maldives, which is considered as a new chapter, in connectivity initiatives in the Indian Ocean Region. The vessel is expected to arrive in...

The Delhi High Court bench of Justices Manmohan and Sanjeev Narula ordered, in September 2020, in its 94-page judgement, private as well as government schools like Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) to provide gadgets and an internet package to poor students, saying not doing...

The three key Farm Bills—the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020—that were...

A study, by Dr Anjal Prakash and commissioned by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), published in September 2020, has found that the retreat of glaciers in the Hindu-Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region is now affecting the surface water and groundwater availability in the...

According to a new review, published on September 15, 2020, in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus will likely become seasonal in countries with temperate climates, once the herd immunity is achieved. The transmission of...

According to a United Nations report published on September 15, 2020, the world is not doing enough to stop the devastating destruction of the natural world. Ten years ago, Representatives from over 150 countries got together in Japan in order to set out the 20 Aichi...

According to a research published in the journal Nature Astronomy on September 14, 2020, there is potential sign of life on the much-overlooked planet Venus. The atmosphere of Venus is highly toxic and inhospitable, but astronomers on Earth, with the help of powerful...

China has successfully sent nine satellites into orbit in its first commercial launch of a rocket from a platform at sea. Sea launches reduce the risk of used rocket stages returning to Earth and posing a danger to inhabited areas. Sea launch platforms are expected to...

Ultraviolet light has disinfectant properties and can be used to make indoor spaces safe during the pandemic. The Sars-CoV-2 virus, the causative agent of Covid-19, is easily rendered harmless by UV light. If harnessed and used in the right way, UV light can fight the...

As per reports in September 2020, a Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is being set up in Chile, South America, whose sensitivity would be a 100 million times greater than that of the human eye. Once in action, this telescope, an 8.4 metre wide reflector that...