What’s in the news? The Right To Food Campaign and The Centre for Equity Studies have released their latest survey titled “Hunger Watch–2” which evaluates economic distress following the COVID second wave. The same organisations had conducted a similar survey, …
Why in news: Facebook-parent Meta recently announced that it is building an AI supercomputer, the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC). What is a supercomputer A supercomputer can perform high-level processing at a faster rate when compared to a normal computer. AI …
About NCM The Union Government set up the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) as a statutory body under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992. Initially five religious communities, viz., Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Zoroastrians (Parsis) were notified as …
What’s in the news? The latest edition of the Indian Navy’s multilateral exercise MILAN 2022 is scheduled to commence from 25th of this month in Visakhapatnam. India is celebrating the 75th year of its independence in 2022 and MILAN 22 …
What’s in the news? The Ministry of Women and Child Development has said that the PM CARES scheme for children orphaned due to COVID-19 pandemic has been extended till February 28, 2022. The scheme was earlier valid till December …
What’s in the news? Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla has flagged off a convoy of 50 trucks carrying 2500 MT of wheat as humanitarian aid for Afghanistan at the India-Pakistan integrated check post (ICP), the first of about 1000 truckloads which …
Context As tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine remain at an all-time high, the 2015 Minsk protocols have become a key factor in discussions aimed at resolving the long-simmering conflict in eastern Ukraine. What’s the difference between Minsk …
What’s in the news? Recently, India criticised the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for being “communal minded” and “hijacked by vested interests” – a reference to Pakistan – after the grouping called on the UN Human Rights Council to …
Context Non fungible tokens (NFTs) have, thanks to their ability to assign value to everything from art to music to a simple selfie, taken the world by storm. The sales of NFTs surged $25 billion in 2021 as the crypto …
About the Scheme The ‘National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme’ (NMMSS) is a Central Sector Scheme launched in 2008 to provide scholarships for meritorious students of classes IX to XII. Objective: To award scholarships to meritorious students of economically weaker sections to …