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Can the new Alzheimer’s drug, Lecanemab, be effective enough? Subject: International relations Context: The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has granted fast-track approval to an Alzheimer’s medicine which, initial results show, reduces the amyloid beta protein deposition in the brain – a classic symptom of the neurodegenerative disease. Two new drugs […]
Sweden can’t meet Turkey’s demands for NATO’s bid Subject : International relations Turkey, which has for months blocked NATO membership bids by Sweden and Finland, has made some demands that Sweden cannot accept, Sweden’s prime minister said. Sweden and Finland broke with decades of military non-alignment and applied to join the U.S.-led defense […]
West Bengal gets its first M sand facility through Coal India Limited Subject :Environment In an attempt towards environmental sustainability and reducing over mining of sand, Coal India Limited (CIL) has started a facility in West Bengal to produce manufactured sand, the first such initiative in the State as a part of its […]
Six MLA’s in Himachal made as Chief Parliamentary Secretaries Subject :Polity Context: Leader of Opposition in Himachal Pradesh Assembly criticised the Congress government over the appointment of six chief parliamentary secretaries, claiming that it has been done to “keep the flock together” and would put a burden of crores of rupees on state. […]
Abortion Rights and legislation in India Subject :Polity Context: Recently, the Supreme Court of India stated that differentiating between married and unmarried women for allowing termination of pregnancy on certain exceptional grounds is unconstitutional. According to many activists, the court’s judgment is progressive. However, the ground reality has not changed much; as the […]
US House Speaker Subject :Polity After losing multiple votes for Speaker due to opposition from his own party, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy finally became the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. In a five-day-long saga, which was the longest speakership election in 160 years, the California Republican finally managed to garner […]
Clean Energy transition finance must put India’s interests front and centre Subject : Environment Context: The G7-led Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), is counting on India to join the deal after South Africa signs the deal during CoP26 at Glasgow in 2021. About Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP): JETP is an initiative of […]
Next-gen therapy. AMP up the fight against hardy pathogens Subject : Science and Technology Context: Scientists are using a little-known line of defence — antimicrobial peptides — to beat antimicrobial drug resistance. The problem of drug-resistant microbes: Our bodies have their own defence mechanism against invading microbes (pathogens such as bacteria and viruses). […]
After Joshimath, it could be Karnaprayag, Nainital and other Uttarakhand towns next, say experts Subject : Geography Context: Land subsidence is a silent disaster that is taking hold of the Himalayan region. Land subsidence: Land subsidence is the gradual settling or sudden sinking of the earth’s surface due to the removal or displacement […]
Imbalance in fertilizer use Subject : Agriculture Context: 2022 saw global prices of fertilisers go through the roof, in the run-up to and post Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24. More in the news: Prices of all the fertilizers except muriate of potash (MOP) have come down. Russia and its neighbouring ally […]