About Irrawaddy Dolphins There are five isolated freshwater Irrawaddy dolphin populations: in Myanmar they live in the Ayeyarwady River (also known as the Irrawaddy River); in Borneo, they live in the Mahakam River; in Cambodia and Lao PDR they live …
Shrimp exports from India Frozen shrimp is India’s largest exported seafood item. It constituted 50.58% in quantity and 73.2% in terms of total U.S. dollar earnings from the sector during 2019-20. Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu …
Why in News: The ‘double mutant’ virus that scientists had flagged last month as having a bearing on the spread of the pandemic in India, has a formal scientific classification: B.1.617 Other Variants Certain variants of the coronavirus, for instance, …
NEWS India needs to clinically address the issue of refugee protection and introduce appropriate legal and institutional measures CONTEXT The heart-wrenching scenes of Myanmarese citizens, including little children — fleeing from a junta bent on killing its way into power …
About the scheme The Government of India under the Ministry of Science and Technology had instituted a scheme “The Swarnajayanti Fellowships” to commemorate India’s fiftieth year of Independence in 1997. Under this scheme a selected number of young scientists, with …
About the scheme Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) is a flagship scheme of Government of India in 2015 to “fund the unfunded” by bringing such enterprises to the formal financial system and extending affordable credit to them. It provides loans …
Why in News? A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) has developed a technique of boosting the performance of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles (EVs). Why is this technique pathbreaking? The technique can precisely …
What is LWE? Left-wing terrorism or far-left terrorism, sometimes called Marxist–Leninist terrorism or revolutionary left-wing terrorism, is terrorism committed with the aim of overthrowing capitalist systems and replacing them with Marxist–Leninist or socialist societies. What is Maoism? Maoism, or Mao …
NEWS The distinct characteristics of India’s agriculture require that a reformed state must ensure farmer, consumer welfare. CONTEXT For at least four decades now, global economic policy making has dogmatically adhered to the notion that a progressively reduced role of …
About Payment banks Payment banks are the new age banks with limited facilities. These banks mostly operate through the small vendors and shopkeepers. It exists in between the mobile wallet and regular banks. A payment bank provides following services to …