Tropical Marine Zones Tropical oceans encircle Earth in an equatorial band between the Tropic of Cancer (23.5° North latitude) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5° South latitude). The warm tropical oceans play a critical role in regulating Earth’s climate and …
CONTEXT Cyberattacks point to the need to rethink what constitutes a force and what a justified response can be. BACKGROUND A report in The New York Times on the October 2020 breakdown of the Mumbai power distribution system points a …
NEWS Along with comparable levels of commitments there need to be equally comparable metrics for well-being. CONTEXT Global transformation is affecting the planet. But there is no uniform transformation across the world. Global temperature increased sharply only after 1981 with …
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. The 2016 amendment of …
About the scheme In April last year, the central government had for the first time notified the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for mobile phones and allied component manufacturing. As a part of the scheme, companies which set up new …