What is a Farmer Producer Organization? A Producer Organisation (PO) is a legal entity formed by primary producers, viz. farmers, milk producers, fishermen, weavers, rural artisans, craftsmen. A PO can be a producer company, a cooperative society or any other …
Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Health Mission launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 2005. Objective: It is being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality by …
Summary Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman presented the first ever digital Union Budget for 2021-22. The key highlights of the Union Budget 2021-22 are as follows: 6 pillars of the Union Budget 2021-22: Health and Wellbeing …
CONTEXT After the February military coup, the future of Myanmar’s democracy is uncertain, but the country, sandwiched between two powerful states competing for power and influence, is certain to be a key piece in the region’s geopolitics. As the coup …
CONTEXT In recent times, movement led by farmers against the Central government’s agricultural laws has become a part of our national and international discourse. Besides the contentious legislation, the manner in which the Centre introduced the Bills and its actions …
Why in News? An automated computational tool – Infectious Pathogen Detector (IPD) – developed earlier by researchers at the Mumbai-based ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, to identify the presence of 1,060 different pathogens in any genome sequence sample and perform mutation …
Why in News? The first Arab interplanetary mission- HOPE- successfully reached Mars’ orbit to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet. About the programme The unmanned probe — named “Al-Amal”, Arabic for “Hope” — was launched by the …
About RTI Act, 2005 Under the RTI Act, 2005, Public Authorities are required to make disclosures on various aspects of their structure and functioning. This includes: (i) disclosure on their organisation, functions, and structure, (ii) powers and duties of its …
About the species Brookesia nana is a chameleon found in Madagascar. The group of German and Madagascar scientists found this chameleon in 2012. The adult male measures around 21.6 mm when the tail is included and the female is slightly …
Himalayan catchment A catchment is an area of land where water collects when it rains, often bounded by hills. As the water flows over the landscape it finds its way into streams and down into the soil, eventually feeding …