Why in News: An extended range sea-to-sea variant of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was test fired from the recently commissioned stealth guided missile destroyer INS Visakhapatnam. New features This version of the missile has been designed to launch either …
Levels of Economic Integration Economic integration takes the form of the Preferential Trade Area, Free Trade Area, Customs Union, Common Market and Economic Union. A preferential trade area (PTA) is a trading bloc that gives preferential access to certain products …
What’s in the news? Retail inflation rose to 5.59 % in December, mainly due to an uptick in food prices. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based retail inflation was 4.91 % in November 2021 and 4.59 % in December 2020. …
About the Scheme In order to improve India’s performance at Olympics and Paralympics, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports started the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) in 2014. This was revamped in April 2018 to establish a technical support …
India is undergoing a population change. This is evidenced by its current fertility rate of 2.0, median age of 29 years, and dropping dependency ratio (expected to decrease from 65 percent to 54 percent in the coming decade). This opens …