# COP 26 summit     India will achieve net zero emissions latest by 2070, Prime minister Narendra Modi said at the COP26 summit in Glasgow on monday. India was the only major emitter that had not committed to a timeline to achieve net zero, or a year by which it would […]

      # Climate summit     India pushed for “safeguarding the interests of the developing world” as Prime minister Narendra Modi addressed the G-20 summit at sessions on climate change and sustainable development on Sunday. G-20 leaders recommitted to providing $100 billion a year to counter climate change, and pushing for greater vaccine […]

# G-20 PM Modi has addressed the first session of the G-20 summit on “global economy and global health”. PM Modi highlighted India’s contribution during the covid-19 pandemic as it ensured medical supplies to 150 countries. PM Modi talked for the resilient global supply chains. Pope Francis the, head of the Catholic Church has accepted […]

# MGNREGA The central government’s flagship rural employment scheme MGNREGA has run out of funds midway through the financial year. Supplementary budgetary allocations will not come to the rescue for atleast another month when the next parliamentary session begins. According to government’s own financial statement the Mahatma Gandhi national rural employment gurantee act (MGNREGA), scheme […]

      # COP26     India will emphasize climate justice and exhort developed countries to transfer the finance and technology necessary to deal with the fallout of global warning, said environment minister Bhupender yadav. US and other european countries are pushing for a deadline to commit for net zero carbon emissions. Ahead of […]

      # National film awards     Actor Rajnikanth was presented the Dadasaheb Phalke award by Vice-president M. Venkaiah Naidu at the national film awards ceremony in Delhi. Dhanush, for his lead role in Asuran and Manoj Bajpayee for Bhonsale, received the best actor award. Kangana Ranaut was awarded the best actor (female) […]

      # Sabarmati river     Gujarat’s Sabarmati river remains highly polluted despite the spending of nearly 200 crore rupees that the centre had allocated to curb pollution in the river from 2014-15 to 2017-18. The Gujarat high court has reprimanded the Ahmedabad municipal corporation (AMC) and the Gujarat pollution control board (GPCB) […]

      # Vaccine doses     India has delivered over a billion vaccine doses, making it the second highest dispenser of COVID-19 vaccines globally. But the gap between the proportion of population that has got at least one dose and that which got two doses is widest in India. According to the Bloomberg […]

      # Conference of parties 26     26th meeting of the United nations conference of parties begins in Glasgow on November 1. India has not entirely ruled out the possibility of agreing to a “net zero” climate target. India also said that it will not budge on demanding that developed nations make […]

      # 100 Crore vaccine doses   India completed 100 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines on Thursday, in about nine months since the drive began. Prime minister Narendra Modi expressed his gratitude to doctors , nurses and all those who worked on crossing the milestone. WHO president Mr. Tedros also congratulated the country […]