Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) Subject – Security and Defence Context – Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife MadhulikaRawat, an Army Brigadier, and 10 others were killed when an Indian Air Force helicopter carrying them crashed into a heavily wooded area of the Coonoor ghat in the […]
Coonoor Ghat Subject – Environment Context – Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife MadhulikaRawat, an Army Brigadier, and 10 others were killed when an Indian Air Force helicopter carrying them crashed into a heavily wooded area of the Coonoor ghat in the Nilgiris in western Tamil Nadu Concept […]
Variable Reverse Repo Rate (VRRR) Subject – Economy Context – RBI increases 14-day VRRR amount in December to shift out of overnight auctions Concept – RBI’s rebalancing of liquidity management started in February 2020, as the central bank shifted its liquidity absorption tool out of the fixed-rate overnight reverse repo window into VRRR […]
Biomarker Subject – Science and Tech Context – Australia’s Queensland state has found a new omicron lineage in a traveller who arrived from South Africa Concept – In medicine, a biomarker is a measurable indicator of the severity or presence of some disease state. More generally a biomarker is anything that can be […]
WHO’s latest report on Omicron variant Subject – Science and Tech Context – WHO has presented an update on the current situation on Omicron Concept – WHO said that given the predominant circulation of the Delta variant in many countries, it is too early to draw a conclusion on the impact of the […]
Ambergris- The Floating Gold Subject – Environment Context – The Crime Branch of the Pimpri Chinchwad police has arrested two persons in Pune and seized 550 grams of ambergris, also known as ‘floating gold’ Concept – It is generally referred to as whale vomit. It is a solid waxy substance that floats around […]
RBI keeps the Repo Rates Unchanged Subject – Economy Context – The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday kept key policy rates unchanged for the ninth time in a row Concept – The bank has kept the repo rate — the rate at which the RBI lends […]
E-commerce at WTO Subject – Economy Context – WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) got postponed due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic Concept – When e-commerce was still at a nascent stage, in September 1998, the work programme on e-commerce was adopted by the General Council of the WTO. The programme was largely […]
Daily Practice Sheet 8 December 2021 Daily Prelims Topic NASA’s new communications system LCRD Kasturirangan Committee on Western Ghats Micro Labs for Genomic Sequencing Green-Ag project EU Regulators give Approval to Mix Vaccines US-Mexico Border Employment vs Unemployment Rate Hydrogen sulphide suppresses HIV Daily Facts Solid waste management As per the SBM […]