Table Of Contents GENETIC SCISSORS: HEPATITIS C VIRUS BLACK HOLE GARBA DANCE MGNREGA RERA PASSEX NPA CLASSIFICATION 1. GENETIC SCISSORS Subject : Science and tech Context :The 2020 Nobel Prizes for sciences announced for scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier bagged the Nobel Prize for Chemistry “for the development of a method […]
What are NPA’s? NPA is any asset of a bank which is not producing any income. In other words, a loan or lease that is not meeting its stated principal and interest payments. On a bank’s balance sheet, loans made to customers are listed as assets. The biggest risk to a bank is when customers […]
Subject : Security Context: Navy is scheduled to hold a Passage Exercise (PASSEX) with a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier group.The PASSEX is likely to be held in the waters off Kochi. Concept: A passage exercise is normally undertaken whenever an opportunity arises, in contrast to pre-planned maritime drills. India has conducted passage exercises with French […]
Subject: Legislations Context: Tamil Nadu Real Estate Regulatory Authority (TNRERA) has ruled that the provisions of the RERA Act are in addition to and not in derogation of other laws. Concept: Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) act seeks to protect home-buyers as well as help boost investments in the real estate sector by bringing efficiency […]
Subject : Govt Schemes Context: Tribal Families return to settlements in Satyamangalam Tiger Reserve , take up works under MGNREGA. Concept: MGNREGA MGNREGA is one of the largest work guarantee programmes in the world. It is one of the core of the core scheme under Government of India. Objective: The primary objective of the scheme […]
Subject : Art and Culture Context: This will be for the first time in the recent history of Gujarat that there will be no garba during the Navratri, which is its essential element and which the state government has branded as the ‘Longest Dance Festival of the World’. Concept: Garba is a dance form that […]
Subject : Science and tech Context: Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2020 was awarded to three astrophysicists Roger Penrose from the UK, Reinhard Genzel from Germany, and Andrea Ghez from the USA. Concept: Discovery Black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity Black holes were one of the […]
Subject : Science and tech Context: Harvey J Alter and Charles M Riceand Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Concept: What is Hepatitis? Hepatitis means inflammation of the liver. When the liver is inflamed or damaged, its function can be […]
Subject : Science and tech Context :The 2020 Nobel Prizes for sciences announced for scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier bagged the Nobel Prize for Chemistry “for the development of a method for genome editing”. The discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors will lead to the emergence of novel biological applications by making it easier […]