The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal of the Department of Fertilizers for extension of applicability of New Investment Policy (NIP)-2012 for the three units of Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Ltd.
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The management authority of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef confirmed that the reef is experiencing a mass coral bleaching event.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest reef system stretching across 2,300 km. It hosts 400 different types of coral, gives shelter to 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc.
A 2021 study by the UN-supported Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) showed that 14% of the world's coral on reefs had been lost between 2009 and 2018, with most of the loss attributed to coral bleaching.
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A new study has found Microplastic particles in the blood samples of 17 out of the 22 persons, half of these were polyethylene tertraphthalate (PET) plastics.
It is not yet clear if these microplastics can cross over from the blood stream to deposit in organs and cause diseases.
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Google is testing support for Variable Refresh Rates (VRR) in the Chrome OS 101 Dev Channel.
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The Central Government paved the way for easy introduction of genome edited crops. The genome-edited crops are different from genetically-modified crops.
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