About the Sun The Sun can be split into two regions: The interior is a sphere with radius R = 7x108m. There are three main parts to the Sun’s interior: The core is at the center. It the hottest region, …
About the GAVI Alliance The GAVI Alliance (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) is a public-private global health partnership dedicated to “immunisation for all”. GAVI’s strategy supports its mission to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by …
About: The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) Programme was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MoHUPA) which envisions Housing for All by 2022, when the Nation completes 75 years of its Independence. The Mission seeks to …
About: Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) was initiated in 2007 as an umbrella scheme for ensuring holistic development of agriculture and allied sectors. The scheme incentivizes States to increase public investment in Agriculture & allied sectors. In 2017, the government …
It is a unique saline tolerant rice grown in Alappuzha, Thrissur and Ernakulam districts of Kerala. It has been given a GI tag from Kerala. Since the tidal flows make the fields highly fertile, no manure or fertilizer need to …
Environment Protection Act The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 authorizes the central government to protect and improve environmental quality, control and reduce pollution from all sources, and prohibit or restrict the setting and /or operation of any industrial facility on environmental …
Wildlife Institute of India (WII) It is an autonomous institution of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. It was established in 1982. WII carries out scientific and applied research on various issues of wildlife and …
About MPC The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is a committee of the RBI which is entrusted with the task of fixing the benchmark policy interest rate (repo rate) to contain inflation within the specified target level. Under the flexible inflation …
Context: The article highlights that National Education Policy has several innovative ideas and daring proposals. National Education Policy Thirty-four years after the last National Policy on Education was introduced, in 1986, the National Education Policy, 2020 was announced and approved …
What’s in the news? The RBI has announced a scheme on pilot basis for offline retail payments using cards and mobile devices to encourage customers to go for digital transactions even in those places that lack internet connectivity. The central …