What is PMI? Purchasing Managers’ Index is an economic indicator which indicates the business activity & economic health of both the manufacturing and service sectors. PMI of India is published by Japanese firm Nikkei but compiled and constructed by IHS …
About National Infrastructure Pipeline To achieve the GDP of $5 trillion by 2024-25, India needs to spend about $1.4 trillion (100 lakh crore) over these years on infrastructure. To implement an infrastructure program of this scale, the government has envisaged …
Why in News: Iran has started enriching uranium up to 20% at an underground facility and seized a South Korean-flagged oil tanker in the crucial Strait of Hormuz, further escalating tensions in West Asia between Tehran and the West. What …
About Mollem National Park Mollem’s forest cover is part of a near-contiguous stretch of Western Ghats. It is part of the core area of Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary. Spread over 240 sq km, Mollem National Park is located in Sanguem …
About FSSAI FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) is an autonomous statutory body established under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare is the administrative Ministry of FSSAI. FSSAI is responsible …
Why in News? To understand if a coastal city is more prone to floods caused by tidal events or extreme rainfall, a team from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, devised a new metric or measure called the Tide–Rainfall Flood …
About: The project aims at initiating the process of commencing operations of the Seaplane services, on the select routes, under a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) framework through prospective airline operators. The project execution and implementation would be through Sagarmala Development …
About Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All It was launched in 2015 with a target of replacing 77 crore incandescent lamps with LED bulbs and to nullify the high-cost of LEDs that acted as a barrier previously in the …