The mining and quarrying sector approximately contributes 2% to India’s GDP and about 10-11% to the total industrial sector’s GDP in 2023-24. It plays a crucial role in providing basic raw materials to several industries, including iron and steel, petroleum and natural gas, electrical and equipment.
Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG) is a key initiative sponsored by the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India in 2004. Ideally designed as a demand-driven mechanism, RuTAG is meant to bridge the gap in rural Science & Technology (S&T) awareness by promoting higher-level S&T interventions to suit specific grassroots needs.
World Refugee Day (June 20) was established by the United Nations to commemorate the millions who are forced to escape persecution and war. Since solidarity involves listening to and defending rights, solidarity as a practice means that states and societies will allocate the resources, policies, and practices necessary to protect refugees: access to asylum, welcoming the new, and ending conflict. Solidarity also requires engaging against xenophobia, making empathy more concrete, and ultimately being supportive in context.
As UNHCR’s campaign page emphasizes, solidarity means saying courageously that refugees are “not alone” and that the world will “not turn its back” on them.
The Southern Ocean is the broad ocean that encircles the Antarctic continent. It is the second-smallest of the five oceans, larger than the Arctic Ocean but smaller than the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. The Southern Ocean covers approximately 21.96 million square kilometers and is generally defined as lying south of 60°S latitude.
My research journey into The Strategic Deployment of Sustainable Agrarian Initiatives: India’s Evolving Soft Power Projection within the Global Geopolitical Framework revealed how India is leveraging its agricultural innovations to feed its people and build bridges with nations worldwide.
India is prone to earthquakes due to its position at the intersection of multiple tectonic plates, including the Indian, Eurasian, and Burma plates. The ongoing collision between the Indian and Eurasian Plates, responsible for the formation of the Himalayas, makes northern and northeastern India highly vulnerable to seismic activity.
In response to the growing need for advanced seismic monitoring and risk mitigation, the Government of India established the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) in 2014 under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES).