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Kasturi Cotton Bharat program

This Ministry of Textiles’ programme is a pioneering effort in the traceability, certification and branding of Indian cotton.
It is operational at the national level and its promotion is being made at national and international platform.
India is contributing to 25% of global production

Recent glacier retreat across the Andes is unprecedented in the history of human civilization.
Scientists carbon-dated bedrock that had been recently exposed by the retreated glaciers by measuring beryllium-10 and carbon-14 nuclide levels and found that concentrations were nearly zero.
These glaciers are smaller than they've been since the last interglacial period, which ended about 115,000 years ago.
The rock hadn't been exposed during the Holocene Era, which dates back 11,700 years.

Gujarat topped in the all-India wind energy generation capacity commissioned for the year 2023 -24.
Karnataka secured second place and Tamil Nadu ranked third.Gujarat’s wind power generation for financial year 2023- 24 is1743.8MW.
Karnataka’s commissioned capacity is 724.66MW and Tamil Nadu’s capacity is
586.37MW.

The century-old Indian Siris tree in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, recently collapsed during the Godavari floods.
By early 2024, the lone tree was dubbed as the most photographed tree on the banks of river Godavari in Andhra Pradesh.
Indian Siris, also known as Albizia lebbeck, is a tropical tree native to India and Southeast Asia.
It belongs to the Fabaceae family and is a deciduous tree.