Daily Prelims Notes 1 April 2022 Table Of Contents India’s First Steel Slag Road Genome Editing Technology ‘Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’ for CoP15 Blockchain Technology Rights To Nature TN quota law is ultra vires Constitution Tripura and Meghalaya pact Public Borrowing External debt What determines exchange value of currency – rubble case study […]
Exide Industries to invest ₹6000 cr to set up giga factory in Karnataka Subject: Economy Section: Indian economy Context: Giga factories coming up in India Concept: Giga factory is a term that we can first trace back to it being used by Elon Musk’s Tesla, for the then-upcoming lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in […]
EV fires Subject: Science Section: Msc Context: EVs catching fire Concept: Drawback of Li ion batteries: The main reason for fire in Li ion batteries is a phenomenon of thermal runaway What is thermal runaway? Thermal runaway is one of the primary risks related to lithium-ion batteries. It is a phenomenon in which […]
What determines exchange value of currency – rubble case study Subject: Economy Section: External Sector Context: The Russian ruble has staged an impressive recovery after it lost about half of its value in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Concept: The currency has recovered almost all of the losses it incurred following […]
External debt Subject: Economy Section: External Sector Context: India’s external debt continues to be sustainable and prudently manageable Key Developments: India’s external debt increased by $11.5 billion sequentially in October-December 2021 and it rose by $46.6 billion on a year-on-year basis. The percentage of the external debt to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined slightly […]
Public Borrowing Subject: Economy Section: Fiscal policy The Centre, finalised its borrowing programme for the first half of FY23, pegging the target at ₹8.45 lakh crore for this period. With this the borrowing plan for the first half of FY23 coming is at about 60 per cent of the overall borrowing target of […]
Tripura and Meghalaya pact Subject: Geography Section: Map Context: The chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya have signed a pact to resolve part of their five-decade-old boundary dispute. What’s the dispute? Assam and Meghalaya share an 885-km-long border. As of now, there are 12 points of dispute along their borders. The Assam-Meghalaya border dispute are the […]
TN quota law is ultra vires Constitution Subject: Polity Section: Constitution Context: The Supreme Court confirmed that the grant of 10.5 per cent internal reservation to Vanniyakula Kshatriya community violates the fundamental rights of equality, non-discrimination and equal opportunity for 115 other most backward communities (MBCs) and de-notified communities (DNCs) in Tamil Nadu. […]