Subject:Polity Context: Cabinet approved ‘The Farming Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020’. Concept: Article 123 of the Constitution empowers the President to promulgate ordinances during the recess of Parliament. These ordinances have the same force and effect as an act of Parliament, but are in the nature of temporary laws. It has […]
Subject: Economy Context: The Cabinet has approved historic amendment to the Essential Commodities Act and passed ordinances. Concept: i) Amendment to ECA While India has become surplus in most agri-commodities, farmers have been unable to get better prices due to lack of investment in cold storage, warehouses, processing and export as the entrepreneurial spirit gets […]
Table Of Contents Key Agriculture Reform Ordinance TRAFFIC Solidarity Trials Integrated Disease surveillance Program Genome India Project Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) PM KUSUM Border Area Development Programme (BADP) 1. Key Agriculture Reform Subject: Economy Context: The Cabinet has approved historic amendment to the Essential Commodities Act and passed ordinances. Concept: i) […]
Subject: Environment/geography Context: Sixth mass extinction of wildlife accelerating, scientists warn Concept: Mass extinction refers to a substantial increase in the degree of extinction or when the Earth loses more than three-quarters of its species in a geologically short period of time. So far, during the entire history of the Earth, there have been five […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: A homoeopathic drug, Arsenicum album 30, has become a subject of debate after several states recommended it for prophylactic (preventive) use against Covid-19. Concept: The debate stems from the fact that there is no scientific evidence that the drug works against Covid-19, a fact stressed not only by medical scientists but […]
Subject:Economy Context: WITH THE lockdown sending lakhs of migrant labourers back to their villages, over 2.19 crore households utilised the rural job guarantee scheme in May, which is the highest for the month in the last eight years Concept: An analysis of data in this category available currently from 2013-14 on the MGNREGA portal shows that […]
Subject: Geography Context: China under the multi-billion-dollar CPEC will set up a 1,124-megawatt power project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) despite India’s objection to it Concept: Tripartite agreement has been finalised among China’s Three Gorges Corporation, the authorities in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the PPIB to implement the 1,124-megawatt Kohala hydroelectric power project under the China-Pakistan Economic […]
Subject: Schemes Context: Government has announced three schemes for promotion of electronics manufacturing in India. Concept: Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI)for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing shall extend an incentive of 4% to 6% on incremental sales (over base year) of goods manufactured in India and covered under the target segments, to eligible companies, for a […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: A group of scientists working at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Pune, has recently discovered tiny flashes of light all over the sun Concept: These radio lights or signals result from beams of electrons accelerated in the aftermath of a magnetic explosion on the sun. Though magnetic explosions […]
Subject: Geography Context: The ongoing Chinese army intrusion in Chumur and Demchok has left Changpa community cut off from large parts of summer pastures. Concept: The Changpa are a semi-nomadic people: they usually stay in one place for a few months in a row, near pastures where their sheep, yaks and Pashmina goats can graze […]