All India Survey on Higher Education 2021-2022

Context The Ministry of Education, Government of India, released the All India Survey on Higher Education 2021-2022 recently. Key Highlights of All India Survey on Higher Education 2021-2022 In 2021-22,…

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State of the Climate in Asia 2022

Context In its State of the Climate in Asia 2022  report, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) summarised extreme climate events taking place in Asia last year, and their socioeconomic impact. The…

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National Institute Ranking Framework 2023

Context The latest edition of the National Institute Ranking Framework 2023 (NIRF) revealed no major upsets in terms of the results, with the IITs continuing their dominance in most categories recently…

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Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI)

Context The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), headed by India, is readying a global database Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index to track the risk to infrastructure at…

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Air Quality Index (AQI)

Context Over the past few days, as the problem of air pollution in Delhi-NCR and surrounding areas has made its annual November-December appearance in policy debates and public discussion, the Air Quality…

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Emissions Gap Report 2022 of UNEP

Context The UNEP report released, titled ‘Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window Climate Crisis Calls For Rapid Transformation of Societies’, has found that in India and six other top…

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