Subject : National Organisation Context : CCI initiates investigation against cement companies in India. Concept : Competition Commission of India (CCI) is a statutory body of the Government of India responsible for enforcing the Competition Act, 2002, it was duly constituted in March 2009. The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 (MRTP Act) was […]
Subject : Polity Context : Karnataka government defers tabling anti-cow slaughter bill in Legislative Council. Concept : Abolition or Creation – Article 169 The Parliament can abolish a legislative council (where it already exists) or create it (where it does not exist) by a simple majority, that is, a majority of the members of each […]
Subject : Science & tech Context : Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will soon come up with a policy aimed at promoting 3D printing on an industrial scale and helping domestic companies “overcome technical and economic barriers”. Concept : Three-dimensional printing (3-D printing), also known as Additive manufacturing (AM) is a process of […]
Subject : Geography Concept : The meandering jet streams are called Rossby Waves. Rossby waves are natural phenomenon in the atmosphere and oceans due to rotation of earth. In planetary atmospheres, they are due to the variation in the Coriolis effect (When temperature contrast is low, speed of jet stream is low, and Coriolis force […]
Subject : Geography Context : A new study carried out by researchers of the Indian Institute of Science’s (IISc) Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS) has found that El Niño alone is not be blamed for droughts that in the Indian subcontinent. Concept : El Nino refers to the large-scale ocean-atmosphere climate interaction linked […]
Daily Prelims Topic El Nino Rossby Wave 3D Printing Legislative Council: Formation and role No-Confidence Motion Shahtoot dam Competition Commission of India (CCI) Central information Commission (CIC) CITES Daily Mapping Geneva Tashkent Daily Facts Digital Divide 57 subscribers per 100 population in 2019 Drought GDP falls 0.35% with every 1% deficiency from the […]