West Bengal government to set up a Legislative Council legislative council: Under Article 169 of the constitution, Parliament may by law create or abolish the second chamber in a state if the Legislative Assembly of that state passes a resolution to that effect by a special...
NASA's Voyager 1 detects the eerie hum of interstellar space Details Instruments aboard NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft have detected a faint monotonous hum caused by the constant vibrations of the small amounts of gas found in the near-emptiness of interstellar space It essentially represents the background...
SWAMIH Fund Context The Government of India’s Special Window for Affordable & Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH) completed its first residential project. Rivali Park, located in suburban Mumbai, was the first housing project in India to have received funding under the SWAMIH Fund. Details SWAMIH Fund: This is a government backed fund that...
World Food Prize 2021 Context Shakuntala Harak singh Thilsted of Indian descent wins World Food Prize 2021 Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted and Research A global nutrition expert of Indian descent has won the prestigious 2021 World Food Prize for her groundbreaking research in developing holistic, nutrition-sensitive approaches to...
TIGER RESERVES IN INDIA Context Tigress Found Dead In Madhya Pradesh's Panna Tiger Reserve Details India have 51 tiger reserves which are governed by Project Tiger which is administrated by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). India is home to 80 percent of tigers in the world. In 2018, there...
Israel- Palestine conflict Context The current violence is due to conflicting claims over Jerusalem home to major holy sites of Islam, Judaism and Christianity Current Developments Israeli armed forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Haram esh-Sharif in Jerusalem, ahead of a march by Zionist nationalists commemorating Israel’s capture of...
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) Context 8th instalment of financial benefit under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) released Scheme Centre transfers an amount of Rs 6,000 per year, in three equal instalments, directly into the bank accounts of all landholding farmers irrespective of the size of their land...
Cabinet approves Production Linked Incentive scheme “National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell Battery Storage” Source: PIB National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell Battery Storage For achieving manufacturing capacity of Fifty (50) Giga Watt Hour (GWh) of ACC and 5 GWh of Niche ACC with an outlay of...
SUTRA Model: Eyebrows raised CONTEXT Scientist have raised questions on the government-backed model, called SUTRA, to forecast the rise and ebb of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists believe that the model may have played a major role in creating the perception that a second wave of the pandemic...
The Climate and Clean Air Coalition Context: Global Methane Assessment released by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) showed that human-caused methane emissions can be reduced by up to 45 per cent this decade Details The Climate and Clean Air...
