DPN Topics
National Informatics Centre (NIC) Subject – Governance Context – NIC drops Modi image from SC emails Concept – The NIC provides email services to the Supreme Court. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is an attached office under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in the Indian government. It was established in 1976 and is located in New […]
Sericulture Subject – Agriculture Context – ‘Cocoon production in Karnataka down by 50%’ Concept – Sericulture is the cultivation of silk rearing of silkworms. It is an agro-based industry. It involves the raising of food plants for silkworm, rearing of silkworm for production of cocoons, reeling and spinning of cocoon for production of […]
Symphony Subject – Art and Culture Context – A team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony Concept – A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, written by composers, most often for orchestra. Written for an orchestra, symphonies often contain four movements: the first is performed […]
Blue foods have potential to become more sustainable Subject – Environment Context – Aquatic or blue foods can be made more environmentally sustainable than they are now, according to a recently released paper. Concept – The report, titled Environmental performance of blue foods, was one of five initial scientific papers published as part […]
DICGC to announce new date to submit claims Subject – Economy Context – The Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) has clarified that it will separately communicate the revised date for submission of claims and the procedure to be followed in respect of payment of deposits in the case of the scam-hit […]
Tax buoyancy Subject – Economy Context – Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj wants to be cautious even though both indirect and direct tax collections during the first two quarters of this fiscal year have shown buoyancy. Concept – To know about tax buoyancy, please click here. For related terms like Revenue Foregone and Tax […]
‘Fraud loans’ to ARCs Subject – Economy Context – RBI allows banks to sell ‘fraud loans’ to ARCs Concept – The Reserve Bank of Indiaallowed loan exposures classified as fraud to be transferred to Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs). This comes in the wake of banks reporting frauds aggregating ₹3.95-lakh crore between FY19 and […]
China’s Cryptocurrency ban Subject – Science and Tech Context – China’s blanket crypto ban sends most digital units tumbling Concept – Cryptocurrency investors and exchanges went into a tizzy after China’s central bank announced a blanket ban on all cryptocurrency transactions and mining activity in that country. China is not only one of […]
Artificial Intelligence’s religious biases Subject – Science and Tech Context – Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken over our lives much sooner than the futuristic movie Minority Report had predicted. Concept – In a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, Abid and his fellow researchers found that the AI system GPT-3 (an artificial intelligence […]
China’s Chang’e-5 Lunar Mission Subject – Science and Tech Context – On December 16, 2020, China’s Chang’e-5 lunar mission delivered to Earth nearly 2 kg of rocky fragments and dust from the Moon. Concept – On December 16, 2020, China’s Chang’e-5 lunar mission delivered to Earth nearly 2 kg of rocky fragments and […]