Why in News: A team of lawyers and opposing legal parties led by a court-appointed advocate commissioner conducted a videographic survey of the Maa Shringar Gauri site located at the back of the western wall of the Gyanvapi Mosque in …
Why in News: A Boeing 737-800 aircraft of SpiceJet experienced severe turbulence What is it? Turbulence is an irregular motion of the air resulting from eddies and vertical currents. Eddy is nothing but a fluid current which has a different …
Why in News: The mission to Venus is likely to cost between ₹500 crore and ₹1,000 crore depending on the level of instrumentation, said, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) India’s mission to Venus Shukrayaan-1 is a proposed orbiter to Venus …
What’s in the news? The Total Fertility Rate (TFR), an average number of children per woman, has further declined from 2.2 to 2.0 at the national level between National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 4 and 5. There are only five …
India was a food-deficit country on the eve of Independence. It had to import foodgrains to feed its people. The situation became more acute during the 1960s. The imported food had to be sent to households within the shortest possible …