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Increased onion stock to regulate prices: Centre Subject : Schemes Areas of Cultivation: The Major Onion producing states area Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Telangana. Maharashtra ranks first in Onion production with a share of 28.32%. Climate Onion is a temperate crop but can be grown under […]
Assam and Arunachal CMs sign pact to resolve border dispute Subject : Geography Assam Chief Minister HimantaBiswaSarma and his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Pema Khandu on Friday signed the Namsai Declaration for minimising the inter-State boundary dispute involving 123 villages. Present-day Arunachal Pradesh, which attained Statehood in February 1987, used to be the North […]
Gandhi memorial museum puts out special magazine issue on Savarkar Subject :History Section :Personality The June issue of Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti’s (GSDS) Hindi language magazine, Antim Jan, features Savarkar on the cover Who was Veer Savarkar? Birth: Born on 28th May, 1883 in Bhagur, a village near Nashik in Maharashtra. Related […]
Three million children in India missed DPT dose in 2020 because of pandemic: Unicef Subject: Governance Context: The Covid pandemic left India’s immunisation programme in tatters, with an estimated three million children not having received the first dose of the DPT vaccine in 2020, according to Unicef Immunization Programme in India: Immunization Programme […]
Sustainable Development Goal 15: World off track on protecting life on land, finds UN report Subject: Environment Context:The overall progress on SDG-15 in at least 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa has reversed and is trending in the wrong direction, according to the Sustainable Development Report, 2022 Sustainable Development Report, 2022: It is a global […]
Does tropical ozone hole exist? Subject: Environment Section: Climate Change Context: According to the recent study, ozone hole is located at altitudes of 10-25 km over the tropics What is tropical ozone hole? A new ozone hole has been detected over the tropics, at latitudes of 30 degrees south to 30 degrees North […]
Shanghai- other cities in Yangtze Basin issue red alerts Subject : Geography Section : Climatology The Yangtze Basin in China has been experiencing an unusual heatwave since the past one week, with mega cities in its basin ranging from Chongqing to Shanghai affected. Chongqing, one of the four municipalities of China directly under […]
DGTR mulling anti-dumping duty on VSF Context: Less than a year after the Centre removed anti-dumping duties on imports of ViscoseStaple Fibre from Chinaand Indonesia to make the domestic yarn and garments industry more competitive, the Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) is set to hold an oral hearing later this month to […]
Dalai lama visits Ladakh Subject: International relations Concept: Following the Buddhist belief in the principle of reincarnation, the current Dalai Lama is believed by Buddhists to be able to choose the body into which he is reincarnated. That person, when found, will then become the next Dalai Lama. According to Buddhist scholars it […]
The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to rejoin the ambitious Pradhan Mantri FasalBima Yojana (PMFBY) Subject: Schemes Launched in April, 2016, after rolling back the earlier insurance schemes viz. National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (NAIS), Weather-based Crop Insurance scheme and Modified National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (MNAIS). Premium: It envisages a uniform premium of only 2% to […]