Subject: Science & tech Context: The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) approved this week the sale of a lab-grown meat product. This is the first time cultured meat has been cleared for sale anywhere in the world. The product approved by the SFA is cultured chicken, produced by US-based East Just. Concept: How is lab-grown or […]
Subject: Economics Concept: Monetary Policy Committee opined that inflation was likely to remain elevated, “barring transient relief in the winter months from prices of perishables”. This, it stressed, “constrains monetary policy at the current juncture from using the space available to act in support of growth”. Projection on CPI inflation Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, […]
Subject: International Relations Context: A U.S. judge ordered the Trump administration to fully reinstate DACA programme that protects from deportation immigrants who came to the country illegally as children. Concept: DACA is an American immigration policy established by the Obama administration through an executive action in 2012. It allows some individuals who entered the country […]
Subject: Current Events Context: The Minister of Science and Technology and Vice President of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), virtually inaugurated the 2nd TCGA 2020 conference in New Delhi. Concept: TCGA is a landmark cancer genomics program that molecularly characterized over 20,000 primary cancer and matched normal samples spanning 33 cancer types. This […]
Subject: Science & tech Context: Six years after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission was launched, it is set to return back to Earth on December 6 carrying with it samples from the one-kilometre wide Ryugu asteroid that orbits the Sun. Concept: The Hayabasu2 mission was launched in December 2014 when the spacecraft was sent on a six-year-long […]
Subject: Science & tech Context: Director-General of ICMR Dr. Balram Bhargava said: “If we’re able to vaccinate a critical mass of people and break virus transmission, then we may not have to vaccinate the entire population.” Concept: Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of […]
Subject: Science & tech Concept: Classical computers use classical bits that can take the value 0 or 1, allowing for a binary system to be set up and the lowest level of computer language is done manipulating these bits. A Quantum Computer uses qubit on the other hand can exist as a superposition of two […]
OPTIMA (Mains) 2020 30 Days Revision and Writing Plan DAY 6 Topic: Effects of Globalization on Indian society. Social Empowerment, Communalism, Regionalism & Secularism. Total Marks 125 marks Time allotted: 1:30 minutes (90 minutes) What is regionalism? What do you understand by son of soil theory? Elucidate with examples. (10 marks) What do […]