Gross national happiness (GNH) is a measure of economic and moral progress that the country of Bhutan introduced in the 1970s as an alternative to gross domestic product. The “four pillars” of GNH are good governance, sustainable development, preservation and promotion of culture, and environmental conservation.The Bhutanese government takes the four pillars of GNH into account when deciding to pass laws.

The World Happiness Report is a partnership among Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the WHR’s Editorial Board. The World Happiness Report is the world’s foremost publication on global happiness: an annual publication which provides valuable,interdisciplinary insights into the wellbeing and happiness of people across the globe.Nationally representative samples of respondents are asked to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10, and the worst possible life being a 0. They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale.The World Happiness Report has been published every year since 2012 (except for 2014). The Gallup World Poll questionnaire measures 14 areas within its core questions: (1) business & economic, (2) citizen engagement, (3) communications & technology, (4) diversity (social issues), (5) education & families, (6) emotions (well-being), (7) environment & energy, (8) food & shelter, (9) government and politics, (10) law & order (safety), (11) health, (12) religion & ethics, (13) transportation, and (14) work.

Kalaingar Magalir Urimai Thogai is a scheme to pay 1000 rupees monthly as entitlement to the head of households in Tamilnadu in their bank account, planned and implemented to provide entitlement amount to one crore female heads of households. This scheme was launched on September 15, 2023 by Tamil Nadu CM M.K.Stalin. The female of a household has to be eligible based on requirements to avail this scheme.

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs).It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting the asteroid head-on.DART was a joint project between NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The project was funded through NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, managed by NASA’s Planetary Missions Program Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, and several NASA laboratories and offices provided technical support.