About NATO Formed in 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty, NATO is a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe. Established in the Cold War as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, NATO’s fundamental goal is …
What’s in the news? India has witnessed a significant decline in the Maternal Mortality Ratio, MMR from 130 in 2014-16 to 97 per lakh live births in 2018-20. As per the Special Bulletin released by the Registrar General of India, …
About Payments banks Payments banks are the new age banks with limited facilities. These banks mostly operate through the small vendors and shopkeepers. It exists in between the mobile wallet and regular banks. Payments banks are permitted to set up …
About UIDAI The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is a statutory authority established under the provisions of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (“Aadhaar Act 2016”) in 2016 by the Government …
About GeM Launched in 2016, the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is a 100 percent government-owned company setup under the aegis of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It is a completely paperless, cashless and system driven e-market place that enables procurement …
About New START Treaty The New START Treaty, which came into force in 2011, caps the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the United States and Russia can deploy, and the deployment of land- and submarine-based missiles and bombers to …
Context Using the data from the SARAS 3 telescope, astronomers and researchers have been able to determine properties of radio luminous galaxies formed just 200 million years post the Big Bang, a period known as the Cosmic Dawn. Findings Data …
About Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 3.4 lakh square kilometres. It is …
Types 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 from the participating …
About AQI Air Quality Index (AQI) is a number, which is a measure of air quality. The higher the AQI, the worse the air. The colour-coded AQI index was launched in India in 2014, and it helps the public and …