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Sea Vigil and Topex Subject: Defence Exercise Context: Navy is set to conduct Sea Vigil a coastal defence exercise on January 12 and 14. Concept: Sea vigil is a biennial coastal defence exercise conducted by Indian Navy along the entire coastline and Exclusive Economic Zone of India (What are EEZ and Continental Self? […]
People Mover Subject: Infrastructure Context: Construction of Central Vista or Parliament building. Concept: Underground people mover will be constructed to directly connect building with the two metro stations in New Delhi. People mover is small transit systems serving a limited number of people in a defined area, like theme parks, airport terminals, etc. […]
The Supreme Court put a stay on the three farm laws as an Interim order Subject: Polity Context: The Supreme Court has put a stay on the three farm laws while hearing petitions dealing with issues leading to farmers protest due to these laws. Concept: The Supreme Court under article 13, 31 and […]
Daily Prelims Notes 11 January 2021 By Santosh Sir All 6 Prelims qualified 4 CSE Mains qualified If I can do it, you can too Table Of Contents Expenditure budget Lithium reserve found in India Gas pipeline from Kochi to Bengaluru Black Box in flight Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency/Economy regulations (CAPE) Pre-pack VANADIUM […]
Excise Duty Subject: Economy Concept: Excise duty is a form of tax imposed on goods for their production, licensing and sale. An indirect tax paid to the Government of India by producers of goods, excise duty is the opposite of Customs duty in that it applies to goods manufactured domestically in the country, […]
INVERTED DUTY STRUCTURE Subject: Economy Context: Budget may try to straighten ‘inverted duty’ structure to reduce its impact on the domestic industry. Concept: The inverted duty structure denotes prevalence of higher taxes on inputs than on finished items. Impacts of Inverted Duty Structure: According to FICCI, Inverted customs duty structure on finished goods […]
VANADIUM Subject: Geography Context: Exploration being carried out by Geological Survey of India (GSI) has placed Arunachal Pradesh on the vanadium map of the country. Concept: Vanadium is a chemical element with the symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery-grey, malleable transition metal. The elemental metal is rarely found […]
Pre-pack Subject: Economy Context: According to the report submitted by the panel headed by Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India chairman M S Sahoo, the ‘pre-pack’ insolvency scheme will be available for any stress i.e., pre-default and post-default. Concept: The scheme is sought to be put in place to for the identification of […]
Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency/Economy regulations (CAPE) Subject: Economy Context: Automakers seek relief on new fuel efficiency, emission norms like CAPE, BS-6 norms. Concept: It seeks to achieve emission norms as part of climate change commitments by mandating norms to be adopted by automotive sectors. It seeks to lower fuel consumption (or improving fuel […]
Black Box in flight Subject: Science & Technology Context: Black boxes located at Indonesian airliner crash site as human remains recovered. Concept: It is also called flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder and it stores data about planes. They reveal information which leads to information about the accidents of flight. There are […]