Common and Pintail Snipe Subject: Environment Context: During the migration season bird watcher faces a challenge in identifying common and pintail snipe. Concept: According to eBird platform, Common Snipe and Pinatail Snipe make it to the list of difficult birds to identify. During the migratory season, the Common Snipe and the Pintail Snipe […]

    Mercury rising but Delhi continues to see dense fog Subject: Environment Context: Dense fog has hit Delhi several times over the past 10 days, in what meteorologists are calling a “unique” event as in 2nd and 3rd week of februray generally don’t see fog. Concept: Factors for this event as per IMD: Lack […]

    Environment Impact Assessment Subject: Environment Context: The Supreme Court on Thursday noted that it was inclined to nullify the Centre’s notification which exempted the authorities from undertaking Environment Impact Assessment in case a road project is less than 100 kilometres long. Concept: The observation came on hearing a petition against the felling of […]