About Polling Station is a place where the voter goes to cast his/her vote. A polling station may have one or more polling booths. It is the nerve centre and the beating heart of the election process. How are polling …
What’s in the news? Three Indian literary works, Ramcharitmanas, Panchatantra, and Sahṛdayaloka-Locana, were added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Regional Register during the tenth meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP), …
Definition: Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is a set of techniques for resolving disputes outside of traditional court litigation, including methods like mediation, arbitration, and negotiation, which aim to achieve amicable settlements efficiently and cost-effectively with or without the involvement of …
Context Sacred groves are small forest patches conserved by local people through religious beliefs, traditional sentiments, and taboos and are repositories of many threatened species; they are popularly called living biological heritage sites as they contain rich diversity. The existence …
About Igla S Air defence systems The Igla-S is a hand-held defence system that can be operated by an individual or crew. It is designed to bring down low-flying aircraft and can also identify and neutralise air targets such as …
About KP.2 is a descendant of the JN.1 variant of the virus. It is a sub-variant of the Omicron lineage with new mutations. It is nicknamed as FLiRT. It is based on the letters representing two immune escape mutations that …
What’s in the news? The first recipient of a modified pig kidney transplant passed away recently around two months after the surgery was carried out. What is xenotransplantation? According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), “Xenotransplantation is any …
What’s in the news? India and Iran signed a 10-year contract for the operation of a terminal at the strategically important Chabahar port in Iran. About Chabahar is a deep water port in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province. It is the Iranian …
Context Rural tourism in India is still in a nascent stage, emerging as a niche sector within the broader tourism industry. India’s villages serve as a storehouse of the nation’s rich culture, traditions, crafts, heritage, and agricultural practices. Harnessing the …