About the Programme The Sagarmala project seeks to develop a string of ports around India’s coast. The objective of this initiative is to promote “Port-led development” along India’s 7500 km long coastline. It aims to develop access to new development …
Answer will be posted soon: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/indias-semiconductor-push-is-well-worth-it/article65221808.ece How to structure Give an intro about semiconductor industry in India- give the data Explain the need for PLI and its features Explain the geopolitical and-geo-economic significance of starting such a scheme during …
What are solar spicules These are jets of plasma, shooting out from the Sun’s outermost layer – the Chromosphere – and making incursions into its atmosphere. Solar spicules rise like forests from the Sun’s Chromosphere and pierce the Sun’s atmosphere …
What is it? SARAS is a niche high-risk high-gain experimental effort of Raman Research Institute to detect extremely faint radio wave signals from the depths of time, from our “Cosmic Dawn” when the first stars and galaxies formed in the …
About ICAP The India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP) was launched in 2019 by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. The ICAP provides a 20-year perspective and outlines actions needed to provide access to sustainable cooling. The plan describes …
About GIB Great Indian Bustard (GIB) is one of the heaviest flying birds endemic to the Indian subcontinent. Protection Status: IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered; CITES: Appendix I; Wildlife Protection Act (1972): Schedule I. Historically, the great Indian bustard was …
Recently the Union cabinet approved the creation of a National Land Monetisation Corporation to monetise the surplus land holdings of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) and other government agencies. About NLMC Surplus land asset monetisation will be an agency role …
Why in News? Recently, Three labourers in Mumbai, allegedly hired for manual scavenging, died after inhaling toxic fumes in a septic tank. Even though manual scavenging is banned in India, the practice is still prevalent in many parts of the …
Why in the news? In a landmark surgery in the United States , doctors replaced the heart of a 57-year-old patient with the heart of a genetically altered pig. Cross-species transplant(or)Xenotransplantation Xenotransplantation is “any procedure that involves the transplantation, implantation …