Daily Current Affairs
17 Aug 2025
Almond Cultivation in India
1. Major Varieties (Commercially Grown & Traded) Indian & Kashmiri Varieties Shalimar – pointed, large-size nuts Mukdoom, Pranyaj –...
Read More →Discovery of New Palm Species – Phoenix roxburghii
Context Recent botanical studies have reclassified species of the Phoenix genus, originally described in Hortus Malabaricus (17th century treat...
Read More →Decoding Animal Communication
Context Earlier Assumption: Humans believed they were the only “speaking” species; animal sounds were thought to be instinctive background no...
Read More →Julian Huxley: Architect of Global Conservation Policy
Background & Early Life Career as Scientist & Communicator Science Populariser: Essays of a Biologist (1923). The Science of Life (193...
Read More →CITES- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Why CITES Was Needed Poaching crisis: African elephant numbers fell from 5 million (1950) to ...
Read More →16 Aug 2025
V. O. Chidambaram Pillai (VOC)
Context: Sahitya Akademi Award- winning historian AR Venkatachalapathy, author of Swadeshi Steam, discusses contemporary language politics and Tamil h...
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