Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death. As a result of drug resistance, …
India remains heavily dependent on coal for power generation. Of India’s total installed capacity of 374 GW, 53 percent (200 GW) was fired by coal at the end of 2020. In terms of actual power generation, the figure is actually …
Recently, the Ministry for Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) published proposed amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 1980, easing diversion of forests and exempting certain categories of development from the need to take clearance from the Ministry. What is the …
Travel and Tourism was the largest service industry in India was worth $234 bn in 2018. The industry has become one of the largest Foreign Exchange Earners in India with earnings of $29.962 billion over Jan 2019 – Dec 2019 equating …
How to structure: 1) Give an intro about Geographical Indicators 2) Discuss the benefits of a strong GI regime by giving examples 3) Mention the government schemes related to it 4) Suggest way forward and conclude Reference: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/geographical-indications-ecosystem-e-commerce-climate-change-7544733/
Biofuels are transportation fuels such as ethanol and biomass-based diesel fuel that are made from biomass materials. These fuels are usually blended with petroleum fuels (gasoline and distillate/diesel fuel and heating oil), but they can also be used on their own. Unlike …
A smog tower is a structure with numerous layers of filters that catch tiny dust particles(particulate matter), which acts as a large-scale air purifier. The air is sucked into the tower via fans at the top, processed through filters, and …
Poor quality diets are increasingly leading to the compromising of human health as never before; the prevalence of undernutrition persists and remains acute in vulnerable regions, and hunger is increasing concomitantly with an unprecedented rise in overweight, obesity and nutrition-related …
The government has approved the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund, a pan-India central sector scheme to inject institutional financing into farm and farm-processing-related enterprises. It’s part of a larger stimulus plan of over Rs. 20 lakh crore issued in response to the …
Unlike normal matter, dark matter does not interact with the electromagnetic force. This means it does not absorb, reflect or emit light, making it extremely hard to spot. In fact, researchers have been able to infer the existence of dark …