About Millets Millets are a group of small seeded grasses used as cereals. The Indian sub-continent has had a rich heritage of growing them and until very recently millets formed a very large part of our food basket. Sadly, the …
What is AGR? Telecom operators are required to pay licence fee and spectrum charges in the form of ‘revenue share’ to the Centre. The revenue amount used to calculate this revenue share is termed as the adjusted gross revenues (AGR). …
Your dream of becoming a civil servant is admirable, as you are now ready to dedicate your life to our nation. As every dream requires inevitable sacrifices, the path to becoming a civil servant is not without them, as you …
The Ministry of Labour and Employment has developed E-Shram, a web platform that will be used to create a National Database of Unorganized Workers (NDUW) that will be seeded with Aadhaar. It aims to register 398-400 million unorganised employees and …
About QCI Quality Council of India (QCI) was set up in 1997 jointly by the Government of India and the Indian Industry. Its mandate is to establish and operate a national accreditation structure and promote quality through the National Quality …
CONTEXT In January, 2020, the Supreme Court of India held that access to information via the Internet is a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution in the case of Anuradha Bhasin vs Union of India. The top court also ruled …
What is ozone, ozone layer and ozone hole? Ozone is a gas made of three oxygen atoms, and just like any other gas it circulates in the atmosphere. Ozone is present throughout the atmosphere although there are concentration peaks at …
Why in the news? Leveraging advancements in CRISPR-based genetic engineering, researchers have created a system that restrains populations of mosquitoes that infect millions each year with debilitating diseases. What is CRISPR Technology: “CRISPR” stands for “clusters of regularly interspaced short …
The number of active Internet users in India is expected to increase by 45% in the next five years and touch 900 million by 2025 from around 622 million in 2020, according to the IAMAI-Kantar ICUBE 2020 report. The report …
What is decomposition? When a plant, animal, or insect dies, that plant, animal, or insect is broken into tiny pieces and those pieces become part of the soil. This is called decomposition. Bacteria, fungi, and some worms break down dead …