CONTEXT The Supreme Court ordered forming a 12-member national task force for the effective and transparent allocation of medical oxygen to the States and Union Territories “on a scientific, rational and equitable basis. Judicial intervention came in response to the …
NEWS The U.S. supported move will have an effect if countries simultaneously address non-IP bottlenecks among other things. CONTEXT In October 2020, India and South Africa, at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), proposed waiving Sections 1, 4, 5, and 7 …
Why in News: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted permission for emergency use of anti-COVID-19 therapeutic application of the drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) developed by Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a lab of Defence Research …
About NSAP Launched in 1995, the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) is a welfare programme being administered by the Ministry of Rural Development. This programme is being implemented in rural areas as well as urban areas. NSAP represents a significant …
About the Scheme The Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) is meant to enable Members of Parliament to recommend works of developmental nature with emphasis on creation of durable community assets based on locally felt needs to be …
About The grouping of four democracies– India, Australia, US and Japan –known as the quadrilateral security dialogue or quad, was first mooted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2007. Quad was revived in 2017. Quad is projected as four …
What is dumping? Dumping is the practice of selling a product in a foreign market at an unfairly low price (a price that is lower than the cost in the home market, or which is lower than the cost of …
NEWS The U.S.-supported patent waiver in the COVID fight has the potential to bring in much-needed global health equity. CONTEXT India-South Africa had placed the proposal before the World Trade Organisation (WTO), seeking a waiver of patent protection for technologies …
Importance of 5G Technology 5G or fifth generation is the latest upgrade in the long-term evolution (LTE) mobile broadband networks. 5G uses a new digital technology called Massive MIMO, which stands for multiple input multiple output, that uses multiple targeted …
About BTIA India and the European Union (EU) have been negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA), officially called a Broad-based Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) since 2007 but have not been able to conclude it because of differences in some …