Revealed: How Uber took systems for a ride, used its tech to drive past law Subject: Governance Section: Reports and Indices Context: In its eighth collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), The Indian Express spent four months investigating The Uber Files, a cache of 124,000 internal emails, text messages and […]
FSIB composition and funding Subject : Economy Section: Regulation About the Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB) The Cabinet Appointments Committee (ACC) has passed a government resolution to establish the Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB) in place of the Banks Board Bureau (BBB). All assets, interests and liabilities of the BBB now stand transferred […]
Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) Subject: Economy Section: Money Market Context: As many as 15 alternative investment funds (AIFs) are being probed by market regulator SEBI for various malpractices and the creation of hybrid structures. Details: SEBI has recently tightened norms on IPO investments, which is creating difficulties for High Net Worth Investors to […]
Topic: Jobs crisis: Dividend to disaster [Reference: Deccan Herald]
Daily Prelims Notes 10 July 2022 Table Of Contents Cell therapy cancer centre takes shape in Bengaluru, trials are on CAR-T therapy NASA Chief Warned China May Try to Claim the Moon. That’s Unlikely. Re-wilding red pandas: Darjeeling zoo attempts country’s first augmentation of endangered mammal in the wild Variants, Sublineages, and Recombinants: […]
NASA Chief Warned China May Try to Claim the Moon. That’s Unlikely. Subject :Science and Tech Section : Space Context: Some Chinese officials and government documents have expressed intentions to build a permanent, crewed International Lunar Research Station by 2027 In 2019, China became the first country to land a spacecraft on the […]
Regulation of medical devices: Draft Bill suggests separate expert group, check on online pharmacies Subject : Governance Section : Act Context: The Union Health ministry has released the new draft ‘Drug, Medical Devices, and Cosmetics Bill-2022’ that separately defines medical devices, makes provision for constitution of a separate expert group on medical devices, […]
States discuss issues of river water sharing, women’s safety, fast-track courts with Home Minister during a meeting of the Northern Zonal Council Subject :Polity Section: Federalism Amit Shah on Thursday unveiled the ‘Statue of Peace’ of philosopher and social reformer Ramanujacharya in Sonawar What are Zonal Councils? About: Zonal Councils are the statutory […]
Variants, Sublineages, and Recombinants: The Constantly Changing Genome of SARS-CoV-2 Subject: Science and technology Section: Biotechnology Mutation When a virus replicates, it makes copies of all of its genes. In the process, it makes mistakes, like typos in the string of 30,000 letters that make up the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Those mistakes may result […]