DPN Topics
Subject: Economy Context: Government is looking for second “generation reform” that is necessary to give a structural push to growth by consolidating and privatizing CPSEs. Concept: Finance Minister said a new coherent PSE policy will be announced, opening all sectors to private players with public sector enterprises (PSEs) playing an important role in defined areas. […]
Subject: Economy Context: India’s foreign exchange reserves hit an all-time high of $493.48 billion for the week ended May 29, according to the RBI data Concept: The Forex Reserves (‘foreign exchange reserves’) of an economy is its ‘foreign currency assets’ added with its gold reserves, SDRs (Special Drawing Rights) and Reserve Tranche in the IMF. The RBI Act, 1934 provides […]
Subject: Polity Context: Parliament is going to have hybrid monsoon session where some members being physically present in the House while others attending on a virtual platform Concept: After assessing the physical and digital infrastructure for the options to conduct Parliament sessions amid the pandemic, it was found that chambers face space constraint, given the physical […]
Subject: Science and tech/IR Context: World Health Organisation (WHO) earlier said that transmission of Covid-19 from asymptomatic carriers is “very rare”, and then clarified that modelling studies have put the extent of asymptomatic transmission to about 40% Concept: Asymptomatic spread is the transmission of the virus by people who do not have symptoms and will never get symptoms […]
Subject: Scheme/ Social sector Context: Most of India’s top higher education institutions including at least 10 Institution of Eminences (IoE) have slipped in the latest edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings (WUR) released recently. Concept: Report findings: Overall, 21 Indian universities and institutes have found a place this year among the world’s top 1,000. […]
Subject: Polity Context: Supreme Court ordered states and Union Territories to complete the process of sending migrants back to their home states within 15 days. Concept: Migrants are one of the hardest hit groups in COVID pandemic. Many of them without access to food, transport walked to their homes. Having refused several times earlier to […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: The Indian Air Force has inducted an indigenously designed and manufactured pod called ARPIT. Concept: It will be used for evacuation of critical patients suffering from infectious diseases like COVID-19 from isolated and remote areas. The isolation system has a suitable number of air exchanges, integration of medical monitoring instruments, […]
Subject: Economy Context: In its latest Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank predicted a 3.2 per cent contraction in India’s economy during the current fiscal year Concept: Global economy is expected to contract by 5.2 per cent as a result of the the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the deepest recession in global economy […]
Subject: Geography Context: Recently, eleventh minor earthquake recorded in and around Delhi since May, the most powerful of which happened to be of magnitude 3.4. Concept: The Earth’s crust consists of seven large lithospheric plates and numerous smaller plates. These plates move towards each other (a convergent boundary), apart (a divergent boundary) or past each […]
Subject: Science and tech Concept: Remdesivir Remdesivir, an antiviral drug first developed for treating Ebola in 2014, is one of the possible Covid-19 treatments being investigated in the WHO’s Solidarity Trial. It inhibits viral replication in the body. Favipiravir Favipiravir is an antiviral given to inhibit viral replication. It is used as an anti-influenza drug. Tocilizumab This is […]