Daily Prelims Notes 16 February 2022 Table Of Contents PUBLIC ORDER NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE (NSE) La-NINA RAVIDASSIA DERA CHEETAH TRANSLOCATION RUBBER BILL 2022 EXPENDITURE ON R&D INDIAN FEDERATION RBI’s Prudential Norms on Income Recognition- ‘Asset Classification and Provisioning’ India to make digital maps of all villages RESERVATION TO STs IN J&K BT BRINJAL […]
GLOBAL CARBON BUDGET TOPIC: Environment Context- The Working Group II report of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment (AR6), to be released at the end of the month, will strengthen science on the links between biodiversity loss and climate change: UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Concept- Global carbon Budget: The Global Carbon Budget is produced by […]
BT BRINJAL TOPIC: Science & Tech Context- On Thursday, the pro-GM crop movement will be re-launched in Maharashtra once again. Since 2019, thousands of farmers have been openly sowing and cultivating herbicide-tolerant Bt (HTBt) cotton and Bt brinjal. Concept- To date, the Centre has approved only GM cotton for commercial cultivation in India. […]
RESERVATION TO STs IN J&K TOPIC: Polity Context- The Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission has recently shared its interim report & proposed reservation of nine seats for Scheduled Tribes (ST). It is for the first time that seats have been reserved for the ST community in the legislative Assembly of J&K. Concept- The […]
India to make digital maps of all villages TOPIC: Governance Context- India plans to prepare digital maps of all its 6,00,000 villages and pan-India 3D maps will be prepared for 100 cities, under updated geospatial policy guidelines. The updated guidelines help private companies prepare a variety of maps without approvals from a host […]