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High yielding currency and Currency carry trade Subject: Economy Section : External Sector Context: Goldman Sachs Group has warned high-yielding currencies such as the Indian rupee and Indonesian rupiah may reel amid deteriorating external finances and as the Fed tightening spurs risk-off sentiment. Concept: High yielding currency-High-yielding currencies are those country’s currencies where […]
How do weak currencies exacerbate imported inflation? Subject: Economy Section: External Sector Context: The surge in the dollar has set Asian currencies on course for their worst quarter since 1997, creating a dilemma for central bankers- this would add to the pressure of the monetary policy tightening as weak currencies exacerbate imported inflation. […]
Transgender hormone therapy Subject : Science and Technology Context: Transgender status grounds Adam Harry’s dream to be a pilot. Private-pilot licence holder working as a delivery person; DGCA says cross sex hormone therapy renders him unfit to fly; activist says there is no scientific basis for it. Transgender hormone therapy Transgender hormone therapy, […]
Ocean emergency Subject :Environment Section : Climate change Ecological service provided by Ocean Absorb 90% excess heat generated by GHG Produce upto 80% of world’s O2 Absorb 30% of CO2 emissions Climate change impact on Ocean 2021 saw record heat absorbed by upper 2000 metres of ocean(epipelagic zone) 14% coral lost,30% ocean acidity […]
Smoke In Cabin, SpiceJet Pilot Declares May Day, Makes Emergency Landing Subject : Science and Technology Concept : What is a Mayday call? Mayday is a distress call that is used to signal a life-threatening emergency, usually on a ship or a plane, although it may be used in a variety of other […]
Oceans Great Dying 2.0: Mass extinction haunts oceans Subject : Environment Context: Scientists warn an imminent mass annihilation of marine species similar to one 250 million years ago that wiped out most lives in oceans Mass extinctions The scientists from Stanford University had simulated during 2016-2018 how Earth’s climate changed some 250 million […]
New pathway to regulate nitrate absorption in plants Subject : Environment Context: Researchers led by those from the National Centre of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Re- search, Bengaluru (NCBS- TIFR), have found a new pathway that regulates nitrate absorption in plants. Importance of Nitrogen for plants Nitrogen is one of the […]
US complaints WTO over non GMO Subject : Economy Section: External Sector Why in the news? The US has complained at the WTO that, despite several requests from trade partners, India has provided “neither scientific justification nor a risk assessment’’ supporting its mandatory requirement for non-GMO (genetically modified origin) and GM-free status certificates […]
What does the unchanged small savings rates mean? Subject : Economy Section: Monetary Policy Why in the news? The government said that it had decided to keep interest rates on small savings instruments unchanged for the July-September quarter. Details: Schemes like Public Provident Fund (PPF) and the National Savings Certificate (NSC) will continue […]
Special additional excise duty or SAED or windfall tax Subject: Economy Section: Fiscal Policy Context: In a series of measures to regulate the import and export of items such as crude oil and gold the government has imposed special additional excise duty/ cesses on exports of these items. What? A special additional excise […]