About PARAM Siddhi is a high performance computing-artificial intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer established earlier this year, under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). The supercomputer with Rpeak of 5.267 Petaflops and 4.6 Petaflops Rmax (Sustained) …
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was signed into existence on Sunday by 15 countries led by China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the 10-state ASEAN grouping, creating one of the world’s largest trading blocs. After seven years …
About G20 Founded in 1999, the Group of Twenty (G20) is the premier forum for its members’ international economic cooperation and decision-making. The G20 comprises Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, …
What are deemed forests? There are forests that are notified either with the forest department or revenue department. Then there are those areas that are like forests but are neither recorded, nor notified. While the concept of deemed forests has …
Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech about digitalisation and its role in human life at the Bengaluru Tech Summit. Highlights of PM’s speech India- a digital nation Affordable smartphones and Internet access have made India a digital nation with an …
About CORPAT CORPAT builds up the understanding and interoperability between navies of India & Thailand and facilitates the institution of measures to prevent and suppress Illegal Unreported Unregulated (IUU) fishing, drug trafficking, maritime terrorism, armed robbery and piracy. It has …
About the Mission Gaganyaan, announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018, is the ₹10,000-crore first Indian Human Space Flight Programme (HSP) scheduled for 2022 when India completes 75 years of Independence. It is designed to have 3-7 crew …
What is the National Digital Health Mission? Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his 2020 Independence Day speech announced a major digital initiative in the form of National Digital Health Mission (NDHM). The project will provide a health ID to every …
Why in the news? The United Nations has been celebrating November 19 as World Toilet Day since 2013. This day is marked to spread awareness about sustainable sanitation, access to hygienic toilets and the human costs of unsafe sanitation. What …