Table Of Contents MASALA BONDS NATURAL GAS REFORMS ECONOMIC STIMULUS STAR CAMPAIGNER WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM NATIONAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY TRIBAL COUNCIL CRISPR-CAS9 1. MASALA BONDS Subject: Economy Context: Overseas borrowing through rupee-denominated bonds (masala bonds), which has been declining over the last few years, witnessed a sudden surge in interest from domestic borrowers. Concept: […]

Subject: Science and tech Context: French-American duo Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for the chemistry of CRISPR, which allows scientists to ‘cut-paste’ inside a genetic sequence Concept: The CRISPR technology The CRISPR is an acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, developed in the year 2012 CRISPR […]

Subject: Polity Context: Gorkhaland Janmukthi Morcha (GJM) delegation to union minister meeting demands separate state. Concept: Gorkhaland consists of Nepali-speaking people of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Kurseong and other hilly districts of West-Bengal. The people belonging to these areas have ethical, cultural and language differences with the Bengali community of West-Bengal. It is scheduled area under fifth […]