DPN Topics
Subject: History Context: As India gears up to celebrate its 74th Independence Day celebrations, the Ministry of Tourism’s DekhoApnaDesh Webinar Series presented a webinar titled “Lesser known stories of India’s struggle against the British” Concept: Sivaganga- Velu Nachiar It was in Sivaganga, during the rule of Muthu Vaduganatha Peria Odaya Thevar. He was married to the […]
Subject: Schemes Context: Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment has addressed a gathering of 272 district collectors, 32 state secretaries besides NGOs who are involved with ‘Nashamukt Bharat Campaign’ through webcast of NIC. Concept: NashaMukt Bharat Annual Action Plan for 2020-21 would focus on 272 most affected districts and launch a three-pronged attack combining […]
Subject: Agriculture/Schemes Context: In a world battered by the COVID pandemic, the demand for healthy and safe food is already showing an upward trend and hence this is an opportune moment to be captured for a win-win situation for Indian farmers, consumers and the environment. Concept: Organic farming is a farming method that involves growing […]
Subject: Economy Context: Prime Minister has launched “Transparent Taxation – Honoring the Honest” platform through video conferencing which will honor the honest taxpayers. Concept: The new platform will be having faceless assessments, faceless appeal and taxpayer charter. The faceless assessment and taxpayer charter came to effect immediately, while the faceless appeal is going to be applicable from September 25. It is the […]
Subject: Environment Context: Debate over draft EIA 2020 Notification shed lights on poor ranking of India in Environmental Performance Index report Concept: In 2018, India ranked 177thout of 180 countries and in 2020, ranked 168th out of 180 faring badly on virtually all indicators — environmental health policy, biodiversity and habitat, air and water pollution […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: Vaccine trials bring importance of Safety and Immunogenic of vaccine Concept: Immunogenicity is the ability of a foreign substance to enter a person’s body and cause an immune response. A great example of immunogenicity is a vaccination. When a person gets vaccinated, they are injected with a very tiny amount of […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is working on developing “mega labs” to ramp up testing for COVID-19 as well as improve the accuracy rate. Concept: These labs will be repurposing large machines, called Next Generation Sequencing machines (NGS), which are normally used for sequencing human genomes, to […]
Subject: Arts and culture Context: Ram temple in news has brought focus on Tyagaraja and his devotion to Lord Rama Concept: In India, there are two dominant styles of classical music – Hindustani Music whose domain is the North and Carnatic Music, largely confined to the South. By all accounts, Saint Purandaradasa is acknowledged as […]
Subject: Schemes Context: Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, in collaboration with Dell Technologies launched Student Entrepreneurship Programme 2.0 (SEP 2.0) for young innovators of Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs). Concept: SEP 2.0 will allow student innovators to work closely with Dell volunteers. They will receive mentor support; prototyping and testing support; end-user feedback; intellectual property […]
Subject: Schemes Context: Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare virtually launched the KrishiMegh (National Agricultural Research & Education System -Cloud Infrastructure and Services). Concept: KrishiMegh is a new chapter in digital India enabling the farmers, researchers, students and policy makers more equipped with updated and latest information regarding agriculture, research, education and extension in digital […]