Why in News: The ‘double mutant’ virus that scientists had flagged last month as having a bearing on the spread of the pandemic in India, has a formal scientific classification: B.1.617 Other Variants Certain variants of the coronavirus, for instance, …
NEWS India needs to clinically address the issue of refugee protection and introduce appropriate legal and institutional measures CONTEXT The heart-wrenching scenes of Myanmarese citizens, including little children — fleeing from a junta bent on killing its way into power …
About the scheme The Government of India under the Ministry of Science and Technology had instituted a scheme “The Swarnajayanti Fellowships” to commemorate India’s fiftieth year of Independence in 1997. Under this scheme a selected number of young scientists, with …
About the scheme Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) is a flagship scheme of Government of India in 2015 to “fund the unfunded” by bringing such enterprises to the formal financial system and extending affordable credit to them. It provides loans …