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Subject: Economics Context: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its bi-monthly monetary, has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged. Concept : This is the third time in a row the central bank has kept the key rates unchanged. The status quo on monetary policy was as expected by most economists, amid high levels […]
Subject: International Affairs Context: At a United Nations General Assembly session on ‘Culture of Peace’, India pointed out that UN resolutions on important issues speak only of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Concept: Key UN General Assembly resolutions over the years have categorically condemned and voiced concern over the increase in anti-Semitism, Christianophobia and Islamophobia in […]
Subject: Economy Context: One year has passed since, the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Act, 2019 was notified. Concept: The Act categorizes production, manufacture, import, export, transport, sale, distribution, storage, and advertisement of e-cigarettes and similar devices as cognizable offences. The Act stipulates that persons found […]
Subject: Economy Context: Global tax rules must be rewritten to bring in more transparency and make tax revenues available for development. Concept: A report was jointly launched by Tax Justice Network, Public Services International and the Global Alliance for Tax Justice. Called “State of Tax Justice 2020” that tells us how much each country in […]
Subject: Science & tech Context: The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) approved this week the sale of a lab-grown meat product. This is the first time cultured meat has been cleared for sale anywhere in the world. The product approved by the SFA is cultured chicken, produced by US-based East Just. Concept: How is lab-grown or […]
Subject: Economics Concept: Monetary Policy Committee opined that inflation was likely to remain elevated, “barring transient relief in the winter months from prices of perishables”. This, it stressed, “constrains monetary policy at the current juncture from using the space available to act in support of growth”. Projection on CPI inflation Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, […]
Subject: International Relations Context: A U.S. judge ordered the Trump administration to fully reinstate DACA programme that protects from deportation immigrants who came to the country illegally as children. Concept: DACA is an American immigration policy established by the Obama administration through an executive action in 2012. It allows some individuals who entered the country […]
Subject: Current Events Context: The Minister of Science and Technology and Vice President of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), virtually inaugurated the 2nd TCGA 2020 conference in New Delhi. Concept: TCGA is a landmark cancer genomics program that molecularly characterized over 20,000 primary cancer and matched normal samples spanning 33 cancer types. This […]
Subject: Science & tech Context: Six years after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission was launched, it is set to return back to Earth on December 6 carrying with it samples from the one-kilometre wide Ryugu asteroid that orbits the Sun. Concept: The Hayabasu2 mission was launched in December 2014 when the spacecraft was sent on a six-year-long […]
Subject: Science & tech Context: Director-General of ICMR Dr. Balram Bhargava said: “If we’re able to vaccinate a critical mass of people and break virus transmission, then we may not have to vaccinate the entire population.” Concept: Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of […]