DPN Topics
Subject: Polity Context: The conduct of local body elections will ensure good governance said Lt. Governor of puducherry. Concept: 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments were passed by Parliament in December, 1992. Through these amendments local self-governance was introduced in rural and urban India. Salient Features of the Constitution 73rd and 74th Amendments: These amendments added […]
Subject: Environment Context : Delhi woke up to high levels of air pollution on Friday as air quality index (AQI) slipped into ‘very poor’ category while some parts of the city saw AQI turn ‘severe’. Concept: Besides concentration of particulates (PM 2.5 ,PM 10), the CPCB also monitors gas concentrations, including of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), […]
Subject :International Relation Context: The State Department has proposed not to issue temporary business visas for H-1B speciality occupations which allowed several companies to send their technology professionals for a short stay to complete jobs on site in the U.S. Concept: It is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ graduate level foreign […]
Subject: Defence Context: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) carried out the final user trial of the Nag Missile at the Pokhran firing range. Concept : Nag is a third-generation, fire-and-forget, anti-tank guided missile developed by India’s state-owned Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to support both mechanised infantry and airborne forces of the […]
Subject: Defence Context: INS Kavaratti, the indigenously built Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) stealth corvettes by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata, was formally inducted into the Indian Navy . Concept: INS Kavaratti (P31) is an anti-submarine warfare corvette of the Indian Navy built under Project 28. It is the last of four Kamorta-class corvettes under […]
Subject: Economy Context: Base year of Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers revised from 2001 to 2016. Concept: Consumer Price Index or CPI is the measure of changes in the price level of a basket of consumer goods and services bought by households. CPI is a numerical estimation calculated using the rates of a sample […]
Subject: Health Context: As the government sets to achieve its agenda of a malnutrition-free India and doubling of farmers’ incomes, the promotion of the production and consumption of nutri-cereals seems to be a policy shift in the right direction. Concept: Millets Millet is common term to categorize small-seeded grasses that are often termed nutri-cereals or […]
Subject: Art & Culture Context: The world famous Ramnagar Ramlila – which many consider to be the oldest in the world, being over 200 years old – began in Varanasi. Concept: The Traditional performance of Ramayana was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008. Ramlila, literally means […]
Subject: Modern History Context: Harsh Madder wrote in The India Forum of the significance of the word “fraternity” in our Constitution’s Preamble. Concept: Scholars have long noted a few milestones in the history of India’s constitution-making. A major one was the 1931 “Fundamental Rights” resolution of the Indian National Congress. The Karachi session was presided […]
Subject: Modern History Context: All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) welcomed the four farm legislations passed by the Punjab Assembly and urged all other States to follow the model. Concept: In 1936, at the Lucknow session of the Congress, All India Kisan Sabha was formed with Sahajanand as its first president All India Kisan Sabha is […]