DPN Topics
World Meteorological Congress Subject – Environment Context – World Meteorological Congress calls for international cooperation in meteorology, climatology, operational hydrology Concept – Weather, climate and the water cycle are oblivious to national borders and so global cooperation in the domains of meteorology, climatology and operational hydrology is crucial. In 2021, both the developed […]
Hornbills Subject – Environment Context – Save hornbills, for they are the gardeners of tropical forests: Study Concept – Scientists from two organisations studied how fruiting plants and hornbills influenced each other’s distribution in the Namdapha Tiger Reserve. The reserve, located in Arunachal Pradesh, is one of India’s most biodiverse protected areas. It […]
Antarctic Larsen C ice shelf break in 2017 Subject – Environment Context – NASA has an answer for Antarctic Larsen C ice shelf break in 2017 Concept – When an iceberg, more than nine times the size of Mumbai in India, split off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf July 10-12, 2017, the […]
Govt Proposes To Redefine Forests Subject – Environment Context – Last week, the Ministry for Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) published proposed amendments to the Forest Conservation Act, 1980, easing diversion of forests and exempting certain categories of development from the need to take clearance from the Ministry. Concept – Last week, […]
Gene-Edited Plants Subject – Environment Context – ‘Approve norms for gene-edited plants without delay’ Concept – With an “inordinate delay” in pronouncing safety norms for gene-edited plants delaying research, a group of pro-biotechnology intellectuals and scientists have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing concern over the undue delay. Seeking his attention to […]
Minimum wage panel may opt for multiple criteria model Subject – Governance Context – Minimum wage panel may opt for multiple criteria model Concept – Moving away from nutritional requirement as a criteria to fix minimum wages, the newly reconstituted expert committee, may opt for Multi Criteria Decision Making method to fix the […]
BharatPe Subject – Economy Context – RBI grants banking licence to USFBL Concept – The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday granted a banking licence to Unity Small Finance Bank Ltd (USFBL), which was established jointly by Centrum Financial Services Ltd (CFSL) and Resilient Innovations Private Limited (BharatPe), to carry on SFB business […]
Depreciation and Devaluation of currency Subject – Economy Context – Rupee Weakens To 15-Month Low Concept – Devaluation of a currency Devaluation of a currency is associated with countries having a fixed exchange rate regime. Under the fixed rate regime, the central bank or the government decides the value of the currency with […]
G 20 Subject – IR Context – Goyal pushes for IPR waiver on vaccines, breaking trade barriers Concept – Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal made a renewed call for a temporary waiver of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on vaccines and medical products and dismantling of new trade barriers such as vaccine discrimination […]
India’s Equity Market Subject – Economy Context – Indian equities on track to join top-5 market-cap club, displacing UK Concept – India’s equity market is on the cusp of overtaking that of the UK in value to join the world’s top-five club, at least by one measure. The likely feat comes as record-low […]