CONTEXT There have always been political tensions between India and China over: Each country’s territorial claims over land controlled by the other, China’s “all-weather” alliance with our hostile separated sibling, Pakistan, India’s hospitality to the Dalai Lama, who was granted …
What’s the news? A United in Science Report by multiple international scientific agencies has flagged that fossil fuel emissions from coal, gas, cement etc are back to 2019 levels or even higher in 2021. Key highlights Fossil CO2 emissions from …
About SCO Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a permanent intergovernmental international organisation established in 2001. It’s a Eurasian political, economic and military organisation aiming to maintain peace, security and stability in the region. Prior to the creation of SCO in …
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). …
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 …
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 …