DPN Topics
Subject: Economy Context: The Reserve Bank of India is going to create Rs 500-crore payments infrastructure development fund (PIDF) to encourage acquirers to deploy points of sale (PoS) infrastructure both physical and digital modes in tier-3 to tier-6 centres as also in northeastern states. Concept: Half of the fund will be initially contributed by RBI […]
Subject: Economy Context: Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) bought shares worth ₹20,814 crore in just five trading sessions in the current month. This is the highest in any month of 2020. Concept: Foreign portfolio investment (FPI) consists of securities and other financial assets held by investors in another country. It does not provide the investor with […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: NASA announced that a giant asteroid named 163348 (2002 NN4) is expected to pass Earth (at a safe distance) on June 6. Concept: Near Earth Objects are comets and asteroids nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits which allows them to enter the Earth’s neighbourhood. These objects […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: Researchers have leveraged the aerial deployment of lidar technology to detect “massive, ancient platforms made of clay and earth”. Concept: Lidar, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, is a remote sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure ranges (variable distances) to the Earth. These light pulses—combined […]
Subject: Environment Context: Environment Protection and Green Initiatives have always been a key focus area of the Indian Navy. So the Indian Navy has embarked on reducing its environmental footprint Concept: ‘Indian Navy Environment Conservation Roadmap’ (INECR) has been the guiding document and key enabler for progressively achieving the vision of the Indian Navy to […]
Subject: Economy Context: Despite a large part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat package relying on aggressive lending by banks, the government does not see an immediate need for equity infusion in the public sector banks (PSBs), as their capital to risk weighted asset ratio (CRAR) is expected to stay above the regulatory requirements Concept: CRAR Capital […]
Subject: Environment Context: June 5 is celebrated as World Environment Day every year. The theme for World Environment Day 2020 is biodiversity Concept: The first major conference on environmental issues was held in the year 1972 from June 5-16 in Stockholm (Sweden). Later that year, on December 15, the General Assembly adopted a resolution designating […]
Subject: Environment Context: Chennai-based environmental group seeks more norms for disposal of COVID-19 medical waste in Tamil Nadu It has demanded that the government set up at least one Common Bio-medical Waste Treatment and Disposal Facility per district immediately Concept: Bio Medical Waste Management Rules, (BMWM), 2016 defines Bio Medical Waste as any Waste generated […]
Subject: Schemes Context: Minister of Human Resource Development, Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs, and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have jointly launched an online portal for `The Urban Learning Internship Program (TULIP)’ Concept: TULIP is a program for providing fresh graduates experiential learning opportunities in the urban sector. TULIP has been conceived […]
Subject: Environment Context: Centre for science and environment has released state of environment 2020 report Findings The report outlines the status on progress of sustainable development goals(SDGs), state of forests, groundwater development, wasteland and live stocks. It has been observed in the report that the country facing challenges in achieving 9 of the total 17 […]