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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 […]
Re-wilding red pandas: Darjeeling zoo attempts country’s first augmentation of endangered mammal in the wild Subject: Geography The Singalila National Park, the highest protected area in West Bengal, will soon get new denizensI In the first re-wilding programme of red pandas (Ailurus fulgens) in India, the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park has started […]
CAR-T therapy Subject: Science and technology Section: Biotechnology Context: In 2019, when Immuneel Therapeutics Ltd, founded by Pulitzer winning author and US oncologist Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee and leading biotech entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, planned to set up a breakthrough cell therapy facility for Chimeric antigen receptor T cells are T cells that have […]
Cell therapy cancer centre takes shape in Bengaluru, trials are on Subject: Science and technology Section: Biotechnology Context: In 2019, when Immuneel Therapeutics Ltd, founded by Pulitzer winning author and US oncologist Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee and leading biotech entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, planned to set up a breakthrough cell therapy facility for cancer. […]
A plan that is much more than just planting trees Subject :Environment Section :Conservation The focus now is on ‘forest landscape restoration’, to regain ecological functionality and improve human welfare What is forest landscape restoration the process of regaining ecological functionality and improving human welfare across deforested or degraded forest landscapes The span […]
An FIR was lodged against Kerala CPI(M) MLA SajiCheriyan on Thursday, in connection with his recent controversial remarks against the Constitution Subject :Polity Section : Constitution The case was registered under Section 2 of the Prevention of Insults to the National Honour Act The provision under the Act carries a maximum punishment of […]
Govt revives poetry banned during British rule Subject :History Section: Freedom struggle A section of the Amrit Mahotsav website, called Swatantra Swar, showcases some of these poems written before 1947, in languages such as Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Some of the popular poems showcased “Rashtriya […]
Which is the ‘real’ Shiv Sena? Answer lies with the Constitution and Supreme Court Subject :Polity Section :Elections Most recently, the Shiv Sena has been split between the Uddhav Thackeray and the Eknath Shinde factions. In anticipation of future challenges as to who has control over the party, including its symbols and name, […]
Man seeks NOC to export embryos Subject: Polity Section: Acts and Policies Context: A married man has moved the Delhi High Court seeking to expedite the process of obtaining a no-objection certificate (NOC) for exporting embryos to a surrogate mother abroad. Concept: Export of embryos from India has been allowed by the Government […]