DPN Topics
E-Shram Portal Subject – Economy Context – The government will launch the e-Shram portal, a database of unorganised sector workers. Concept – The government aims to register 38 crore unorganised workers, such as construction labourers, migrant workforce, street vendors and domestic workers, among others. The workers will be issued an e-Shram card containing […]
Havana Syndrome Subject – Science and Tech Context – US Vice-President Kamala Harris’s trip to Hanoi in Vietnam was delayed on Tuesday due to a possible case of the “Havana Syndrome”. Concept – Back in 2016, reports first emerged of US diplomats and other employees of the government falling ill in Havana, the […]
Clinical Trials Subject – Science and Tech Context – India’s indigenously-developed mRNA vaccine has received regulatory nod for Phase II and III clinical trials. Concept – A clinical trial is a systematic study to generate data for discovering or verifying the clinical and pharmacological profile (including pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic) or adverse effects of […]
Guru Granth Sahib Subject – Art and Culture Context – Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and others have carried on their heads saroops of the Guru Granth Sahib flown in from Afghanistan. Concept – Saroop is a physical copy of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, also called Bir in Punjabi. Every Bir has 1,430 […]
Non-Tariff Barriers Subject – Economy Context – Piyush Goyal asks industry to flag non-tariff barriers in exports Concept – Non-tariff barriers are the government policies other than tariffs that tend to distort trade. Non-tariff barriers can be of two types, one that has direct influence on the price of the goods being imported and […]
South-west Monsoons Subject – Geography Context – Private weather forecaster Skymet Weather Services Private Limited has downgraded its forecast for the South-West Monsoon this year. Concept – The climate of India is described as the ‘monsoon’ In Asia, this type of climate is found mainly in the south and the southeast. Out of a total […]
Greece and Turkey Subject – Mapping Context – Fearing a repeat of the 2015 refugee crisis, Greece has completed building a 40-km long wall and installed a hi-tech surveillance system on its border with Turkey to avoid the influx of Afghan migrants following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Concept –
Delimitation Subject – Polity Context – The Election Commission’s (EC) former legal eagle, SK Mendiratta, has red-flagged the Union government’s order setting up a Delimitation Commission for Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Assam and Nagaland, calling it “unconstitutional” and “illegal”. Concept – Delimitation is the act of redrawing boundaries of Lok Sabha and Assembly seats to represent […]
Delta variant of Covid-19 Subject – Science and Tech Context – Delta variant spreads more rapidly than other Covid-19 strains Concept – Key mutations reduce effectiveness of vaccines, and high infectiousness during the pre-symptomatic phase in patients are among the main reasons fuelling the rapid spread. Delta variant (B.1.617.2) is at least 40 per […]
Delhi’s New Smog Tower Subject – Environment Context – Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated on Monday the country’s first ‘smog tower’, an experimental set up worth Rs 20 crore to purify air in a 1-km radius around the structure. Concept – The structure is 24 m high, about as much as an […]