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International Sloth Day falls on 17 October and aims to raise awareness about sloths, their habitats and their conservation. It was started in 2010 by AIUNAU, a wildlife conservation organisation from Colombia.
1 / 10India is placed 84th in the October 2026 edition of the Henley Passport Index, a rank it shares with Algeria and Mauritania. Holders of an Indian passport can now reach 55 destinations without securing a…
2 / 10The latest global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the University of Oxford. Launched in 2010, the index spans 108 countries and assesses poverty through 10 indicators…
3 / 10Barda Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat has become a key second habitat for Asiatic lions, which returned there after roughly 144 years. Situated in the Saurashtra region across Porbandar and Devbhumi Dwarka districts, Barda spans about…
4 / 10Two more Indian wetlands — Chandigarh's Sukhna Wetland and Uttar Pradesh's Sauj Jheel — have been designated Ramsar sites, raising the country's count to 103. Sukhna lies at the foothills of the Outer Himalayas, while…
5 / 10The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) has begun the Red List Assessment of Ecosystems (RLE) project, the first such State-level exercise in India. Running for one year, it is being carried out jointly by the…
6 / 10The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has cautioned that the ongoing El Niño may turn into one of the most powerful since 1950, with its peak expected around December 2026. For the equatorial Pacific's Niño 3.4…
7 / 10India's resident mission in Costa Rica's capital, San José, has begun functioning, the Ministry of External Affairs announced. Earlier, relations with Costa Rica were managed by the Indian mission in Panama, supported by an honorary…
8 / 10The Indian Navy has added two new ships to its fleet. INS Samarthak, described as India's first indigenous multi-purpose vessel, was commissioned at Karwar in Karnataka. Separately, INS Mangrol was commissioned at the Naval Dockyard…
9 / 10For the first time, India produced more than 100 billion units (BU) of electricity from renewable sources within a single quarter. The milestone came in the second quarter (Q2) of the 2026–27 financial year, as…
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