About UN Peacekeeping Forces The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces are employed by the UN to maintain or re-establish peace in an area of armed conflict. The UN may engage in conflicts between states as well as in struggles within states. …
What’s in the news? The Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, has released its 2018 report on the ‘vital statistics on India based on the Civil Registration System’. According to the report, Arunachal Pradesh …
About the scheme Ministry of New and Renewable Energy launched the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evem Utthan Mahabhiyan (PM KUSUM) Scheme for farmers for installation of solar pumps and grid connected solar and other renewable power plants in the …
About Ek Bharat Shreshta Bharat: The Prime Minister announced the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat initiative on October 31, 2015 –– Rashtriya Ekta Diwas –– to commemorate the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel to revive a sense of ‘nationhood’. The broad …
About: The QRSAM, is a canister-based system, which means that it is stored and operated from specially designed compartments. In the canister, the inside environment is controlled, thus along with making its transport and storage easier, the shelf life of …
What’s in the news? A ‘nowcast’ (a forecast that estimates the outcome of a near-term event) in the latest monthly bulletin of the RBI projected that India’s GDP contracted by 8.6% in the July-September quarter of the financial year ending …
What’s in the news? China has begun work on a strategically significant railway line – its second major rail link to Tibet – that will link the country’s southwest Sichuan province to Linzhi in Tibet close to the Indian border …
Unlike the Prelims Exam which will be over in just 2+2 (GS + CSAT) hours, Mains is more like a test match, conducted over five days and consists of a total of 27 writing hours (language papers included). When such …
Atomic Habits James Clear What habits do you have? This is a question that is hard to answer because one is hardly conscious of the numerous things one does daily. This does not mean that habits are trivial. Harnessed in …