CONTEXT The novel coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies in India, even for essential services such as health and education. But the data shows that automated decision-making tools have exacerbated the inequalities, especially by raising the barrier …
Why in News? NASA’s spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx which scientists believe has collected samples from asteroid Bennu, began its two-year journey back to Earth. About the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first mission to visit a near-Earth asteroid, survey its surface and collect …
About Mountain Bongos The mountain bongo is a critically endangered subspecies of the bongo, one of the largest forest antelopes, with a reddish-brown coat, with black, white and yellow-white markings. This antelope is the largest, heaviest, and most colorful African …
About COP26 The UK along with Italy is about to conduct the Conference of Parties (CoP) 26th meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at Glasgow. The COP is the apex decision-making body of the UNFCCC. …