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 Nitrogen Nitrogen is one of the five major chemical elements that are necessary for life. While nitrogen is the most abundant of these, more than 99% of it occurs as molecular nitrogen, or N2, which cannot be used by …
CONTEXT Recently, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has framed the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The rules broadly deal with the regulation of social media and over-the-top (OTT) platforms and digital news. …
CONTEXT Recently, the Supreme Court has given its judgment in Patan Jamal Vali v. State of Andhra Pradesh, addressing the intersectionality of caste, gender and disability. In this case, the victim of sexual assault was a blind 22-year-old Dalit woman. …
NEWS Though the pandemic has amplified its contributing factors, policy and programmatic interventions can save children. CONTEXT The true extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child labour is yet to be measured but all indications show that …
Why in News: India’s Eastern Army Command, Andaman-Nicobar Command get new chiefs What is a theatre command? A theatre command is an organisational structure that is responsible for commanding all military assets in a theatre of battle in order to …
Why in News? The Defence Ministry notified the second negative import list — now renamed as the ‘positive indigenisation list’— can now be only purchased from indigenous sources. What is a Negative Import List (positive indigenisation list) The negative list …
What are sacred groves? Sacred groves comprise patches of forests or natural vegetation – from a few trees to forests of several acres – that are usually dedicated to local folk deities (Example – Ayyanar and Amman) or tree spirits …