Why in News? Scientists have discovered what may be the smallest-known black hole in the Milky Way galaxy and the closest to our solar system and has named it ‘the Unicorn.’ About the discovery The researchers said this particular black …
About the Yojana Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is a safe motherhood intervention under the National Health Mission launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 2005. It is being implemented with the objective of reducing maternal and neonatal …
About PM CARES Fund The Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund was set up in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic to mobilize resources. The Fund was established on 27 March, 2020. PM CARES …
Why in the News? NASA has announced a device named MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) attached to the perseverance rover was able to produce oxygen from the thin Martian atmosphere for the first time. How did Perseverance produce …
Why in the News? The government, which plans a law to ban private digital currencies, favours a digital currency backed by the Reserve Bank of India. Uncertainty over the legal status of cryptocurrencies is unnerving Indian investors who, according to …
Why in the News? Recently, four astronauts were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida as part of a collaboration between NASA and SpaceX (a privately-funded rocket manufacturer and transport services company) under the Commercial Crew Program. The …
CONTEXT It has been ten years since the outbreak of the crisis in Syria took place and at present, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad seems to have won the civil war. BACKGROUND In 2015, before the Russian intervention, Syrian …
NEWS The need for a uniform judicial order across India is unwarranted in COVID-19-related cases. ROLE OF JUDICIARY TO SECURE SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS In comparison to the legislature and the executive, what the judiciary can deliver in the realm of socio-economic …
Background Armenian Genocide refer to the campaign of deportation and mass killing of Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire by the Young Turk government during World War I. As many as 1.5 million Armenians are estimated to have been killed …
Why in News? Historians and biologists are campaigning to protect the ancient Buddhist site of Thotlakonda in Visakhapatnam. About Thotlakonda Thotlakonda Buddhist Complex is situated on a hill near Bheemunipatnam about 15 kilometres from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The excavations …