About ISA International Solar Alliance (ISA) was launched in 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former President of France Francois Hollande at the 21st session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-21) in Paris, France. …
Sanitation status before 2014 and its impact Till 2014, sanitation coverage in India was as low as 39 per cent. Around 55 crore people in rural areas were without a toilet facility before 2014. Impact on health Exposure to contaminated …
Scope of food processing industry India being among the world’s top producers of many key farm commodities, the scope for the value-addition of surplus agricultural output is immense. The country ranks first in the production of milk; second in that …
Context: October 16 is celebrated as the World Food Day around the world. It is the foundation day of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations which was set up in 1945. FAO was set up to …
What is it? Lab-grown meat—also known as cultured, cultivated, cell-based, or clean meat is an alternative to animal farming with advantages such as reducing carbon footprint and the risk of transmitting diseases in animals. Rather than being part of a …
What’s the news? According to the WWF’s Living Planet Report (LPR) 2022, Wildlife populations monitored across the globe have declined by a massive 69% between 1970 and 2018. Key Highlights of the report Region wise decline in wildlife population According …
What is Open Network Digital Commerce (ONDC)? ONDC is a tech-driven digital commerce infrastructure that’s popularly defined as a marketplace of e-commerce markets. ONDC is a network based on open protocol and will enable local commerce across segments, such as …
What is in the news? The Indian Army has collaborated with industry and academia to build secure communications and cryptography applications to make its networks resistant to attacks by systems with quantum capabilities. Need for ‘quantum resistant’ systems The following …
About the Index Global Innovation Index (GII) is co-published annually by Cornell University, INSEAD Business School, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations. GII ranks global economies according to their innovation capabilities, using …