Topic 1: Knowledge becomes power only when we put it into use. Topic 2: Is India the new entrepreneur’s hub?

    Daily Prelims Notes 16 January 2022 Table Of Contents Child Welfare Committee The National Martyrs Memorial Fatima Sheikh Airbag ‘National Start-up Day Tonga Lipulekh Cockfights Vitamin D Chronic Itch Locusts ability to smell an odour   1. Child Welfare Committee Subject – Governance Context – Woman held for trafficking at Ranchi airport; ‘bought […]

    Locusts ability to smell an odour Subject – Science and Tech Context – Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis found the answer as to how locusts smell an odour Concept – The ability to smell coffee immaterial of the presence of other interfering smells or the environment remains the same in humans. In effect, other smells or different environmental factors do […]

    Chronic Itch Subject – Science and Tech Context – The elderly are prone to chronic conditions that manifest as itches Concept – Chronic itch can be dermatologic-often triggered by the release of histamine, and treated with antihistamine drugs (e.g., Benadryl), neuropathic (related to the nervous system, as in shingles, nerve compression and cerebral […]