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• utkarsh
• Jun 23, 2021
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Malaysia becomes India’s biggest crude palm oil exporter Malaysia replaced Indonesia as India's largest Crude Palm Oil (CPO) exporter in 2020-21 on June 22, 2021. Indonesia had put high tariffs on edible oil shipments last year. Malaysian palm oil exports to India increased 238 percent to 2.42 million tonnes in the first seven months of the 2020-21 marketing year, according to figures from the Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA), a trade association of Indian vegetable oil re...

• utkarsh
• Jun 22, 2021
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India slips two places on 17 SDGs of UN’s 2030 Agenda: Report The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released the State of India's Environment Report 2021 on June 6, 2021. It revealed that India's ranking slipped two places from last year to 117th pertaining to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  They were adopted as part of the 2030 agenda by 193 United Nations Member States in 2015. Due to major SDGs that remain unmet in India, such as SDG 2: Ending hunger and ach...

• utkarsh
• Jun 19, 2021
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World's third largest diamond unearthed in Botswana On June 1, 2021, the Debswana Diamond Company discovered the world's third-largest diamond in the Jwaneng mine in Botswana, South Africa. Botswana is Africa's largest diamond producer.  The 1,098-carat stone was delivered to President Mokgweetsi Masisi two weeks after it was discovered.  Highlights  According to preliminary calculations, the stone is slightly smaller than the world's second-biggest 1,109-carat Lesedi...

• utkarsh
• Jun 18, 2021
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New Covid-19 variant ‘Lamda’ found in 29 countries On June 16, 2021, the World Health Organization announced that a new COVID-19 variation, Lambda, had been discovered in 29 nations, most notably in South America, where it is thought to have originated.  According to WHO, the Lambda lineage was initially found in Peru and was categorised as a worldwide Variant of Interest on June 14 due to its "elevated presence" in South America.  Highlights The lambda variation has been ...

• utkarsh
• Jun 16, 2021
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World’s first wooden satellite to be launched in 2021 By the end of 2021, Arctic Astronautics, a Finnish enterprise, will launch the world's first wooden satellite into orbit.WISA Woodsat is a cube-shaped nanosatellite planned and constructed in Finland that will be launched in November 2021 on a Rocket Lab's Electron rocket from New Zealand. This wooden satellite will aid scientists in monitoring how wood behaves in extremes of cold, heat, radiation, and space vacuum. Wood could become...