Why in the News? NASA has announced a device named MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) attached to the perseverance rover was able to produce oxygen from the thin Martian atmosphere for the first time. How did Perseverance produce …
Why in the News? The government, which plans a law to ban private digital currencies, favours a digital currency backed by the Reserve Bank of India. Uncertainty over the legal status of cryptocurrencies is unnerving Indian investors who, according to …
Why in the News? Recently, four astronauts were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida as part of a collaboration between NASA and SpaceX (a privately-funded rocket manufacturer and transport services company) under the Commercial Crew Program. The …
CONTEXT It has been ten years since the outbreak of the crisis in Syria took place and at present, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad seems to have won the civil war. BACKGROUND In 2015, before the Russian intervention, Syrian …
NEWS The need for a uniform judicial order across India is unwarranted in COVID-19-related cases. ROLE OF JUDICIARY TO SECURE SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS In comparison to the legislature and the executive, what the judiciary can deliver in the realm of socio-economic …