Why in News: A team of Australian researchers have identified a biochemical marker in the blood that could help identify newborn babies at risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Babies who died of SIDS had lower levels of an …
Context It’s now over five months since the country’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat was killed in a chopper crash in the Nilgris in Tamil Nadu. The Government is yet to announce a successor to the …
Context Recently, the Reserve Bank of India announced that the bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) had held an ‘off-cycle’ meeting at which it had decided unanimously to raise the “policy repo rate by 40 basis points to 4.40%, with immediate …
A report released in 2020 by the technical group on population projections constituted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare indicates that India’s population is expected to touch 1.52 billion by 2036. The distribution of water in India’s cities …
Context The Supreme Court has reserved orders on the question whether a Governor can refer the State government’s advice for granting remission to life convicts to the President for a decision. The court is examining a petition from A.G. Perarivalan, …
Context The Indian rupee hit an all-time low against the U.S. dollar this week weakening past the 77 rupees to a dollar mark. Many analysts expect the rupee to weaken further in the coming months to hit the 80 rupees …
About the Scheme Samagra Shiksha is an overarching programme for the school education sector extending from pre-school to class 12. The centrally sponsored scheme has been prepared with the broader goal of improving school effectiveness measured in terms of equal …
Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 Definition: The act defines a transgender person as one whose gender does not match the gender assigned at birth. It includes transmen and trans-women, persons with intersex variations, gender-queers, and persons with socio-cultural …
India is 3rd largest producer of fertilizer after China & the US and India is 2nd largest consumer of fertilizer after china. Production of all fertilizers (NPK) increased from 1059 thousand tonnes in 1970-71 to 16092 thousand tonnes in 2013-14 …
What’s the news? As per a report published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on climate change and food systems, India’s food production could drop 16% and the number of those at risk for hunger could increase 23% …