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Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) Subject – Security and Defence Context – Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife MadhulikaRawat, an Army Brigadier, and 10 others were killed when an Indian Air Force helicopter carrying them crashed into a heavily wooded area of the Coonoor ghat in the […]
Coonoor Ghat Subject – Environment Context – Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife MadhulikaRawat, an Army Brigadier, and 10 others were killed when an Indian Air Force helicopter carrying them crashed into a heavily wooded area of the Coonoor ghat in the Nilgiris in western Tamil Nadu Concept […]
Variable Reverse Repo Rate (VRRR) Subject – Economy Context – RBI increases 14-day VRRR amount in December to shift out of overnight auctions Concept – RBI’s rebalancing of liquidity management started in February 2020, as the central bank shifted its liquidity absorption tool out of the fixed-rate overnight reverse repo window into VRRR […]
Biomarker Subject – Science and Tech Context – Australia’s Queensland state has found a new omicron lineage in a traveller who arrived from South Africa Concept – In medicine, a biomarker is a measurable indicator of the severity or presence of some disease state. More generally a biomarker is anything that can be […]
WHO’s latest report on Omicron variant Subject – Science and Tech Context – WHO has presented an update on the current situation on Omicron Concept – WHO said that given the predominant circulation of the Delta variant in many countries, it is too early to draw a conclusion on the impact of the […]
Ambergris- The Floating Gold Subject – Environment Context – The Crime Branch of the Pimpri Chinchwad police has arrested two persons in Pune and seized 550 grams of ambergris, also known as ‘floating gold’ Concept – It is generally referred to as whale vomit. It is a solid waxy substance that floats around […]
RBI keeps the Repo Rates Unchanged Subject – Economy Context – The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday kept key policy rates unchanged for the ninth time in a row Concept – The bank has kept the repo rate — the rate at which the RBI lends […]
E-commerce at WTO Subject – Economy Context – WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) got postponed due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic Concept – When e-commerce was still at a nascent stage, in September 1998, the work programme on e-commerce was adopted by the General Council of the WTO. The programme was largely […]
Hydrogen sulphide suppresses HIV Subject – Science and Tech Context– Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) and their collaborators have identified a key role played by hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas in suppressing the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Concept – Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) and their collaborators have […]
Employment vs Unemployment Rate Subject – Economy Context – Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister stated that the unemployment rate in the state was more than 17 per cent in the year 2016 and had now come down to four to five per cent. Concept – The Labour Force consists of persons who are of […]