TIKA UTSAV Subject: Current Events Context: India celebrates ‘Tika Utsav’ to combat Covid-19 Concept: Tika Utsav is a vaccine festival. It is to be held between April 11, 2021 and April 14, 2021. The main objective of the festival is to vaccinate as many people as possible. It will also focus on zero […]

    MANAKUDY BIRD RESERVE Subject: Environment Context: Two tagged migratory birds spotted in salt pans in Manakudy bird reserve. Concept: Two tagged migratory birds — a redshank and a whiskered tern — were spotted in the salt pans of Swamithoppu in the Manakudy bird reserve in Kanniyakumari district. The whiskered tern is possibly from […]

    PROJECT INVESTMENT SURVEY Subject: Current Events Context: Investment projects bounce back in Q4: report Concept: The 82nd Survey of Projects Investment in India conducted by Projects Today indicated a healthy quarter-on-quarter growth of 33.4 percent in fresh investment in the last quarter of the fiscal 2020-21 (Q4/FY21). Fresh investments rebounded strongly in the […]

    PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION BILL Subject: Legislations Context: Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, now under scrutiny by a Joint Parliamentary Committee, could play a big role in providing robust protections to users and their personal data. Concept: The Bill has three key aspects prepared by a committee headed by retired Justice B N Srikrishna. […]

    PANGONG TSO Subject: Geography Context: The south bank of Pangong Tso — one of the two locations from where Indian and Chinese troops disengaged in February has become a “no-man’s land” for the local cattle grazers of Chushul in Eastern Ladakh, the area’s councillor said. Concept: Pangong Tso is an endorheic lake (landlocked) […]

    SHAPHARI SCHEME Subject: Governance Context: To bolster confidence in India’s frozen shrimp produce, the country’s biggest seafood export item, the Centre has kicked off a new scheme to certify hatcheries and farms that adopt good aquaculture practices. Concept: Shaphari scheme The scheme has been developed by the Marine Products Exports Development Authority (MPEDA). […]

    INDIA H2 ALLIANCE Subject: Current Events Context: Reliance, other energy majors form hydrogen coalition. Concept: The Global energy and industrial majors have joined together to form a new coalition called the India H2 Alliance. The initiative to form the alliance was begun by the Reliance industries and Chart Industries. The IH2 alliance will […]

    NEW UMBRELLA ENTITIES Subject: Economics Context: Wary of the additional costs, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is reportedly looking to outsource direct and supervisory control over the New Umbrella Entities (NUE). Concept: New Umbrella Entities (NUEs): NUEs will be a non-profit entity that will set-up, manage and operate new payment systems, especially […]

    LOST GOLDEN CITY Subject: Geography Context: Egypt announced the discovery of what is being touted as the most important find since the unearthing of King Tutankhamun’s tomb almost 100 years ago. Concept: A three-millennia-old “lost golden city” from the era of 18th-dynasty king Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt from 1391 to 1353 […]

    DOOMSDAY GLACIER Subject: Geography Context: Ice shelves including Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ at risk of collapse. Concept: Thwaites or Doomsday Glacier is 120 km wide glacier at its broadest, fast-moving and melting fast over the years. Because of its size (1.9 lakh sq.km.), it contains enough water to raise the world sea level by […]