DPN
Subject: Economy Context: Ever since China started pilot project on its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), there has been speculations of possibility of China’s digital currency replacing the US dollar as the reserve currency of the world. Concept: A reserve currency is a currency held in significant quantities by governments and institutions as a means […]
Subject: Economy/Geography Context: Government has announced the auction of 41 coal blocks that have a capacity to produce 225 million tonnes of coal per year after removing the end-use restrictions and relaxed prior mining experience as bidding criteria. Concept: India imports nearly 250 million tonnes of coal from other countries despite having the world’s […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: The Chinese Government is building the world’s largest police-run DNA database. Concept: Since 2013, Chinese authorities have collected DNA samples from entire ethnic minority communities and ordinary citizens outside any criminal investigations and without proper informed consent. This program of mass DNA data collection violates Chinese domestic law and global […]
Table Of Contents Auto Fuel Vision and Policy 2025 Enceladusand Europa Sukapha Section 309 of IPC Antibodies and Cellular Immunity Rajya Sabha elections Parliamentary Standing Committee Kodumanal excavation Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) 1. Auto Fuel Vision and Policy 2025 Subject: Policy/Schemes Context: Latest round of fuel price increase has helped the state owned […]
Subject: IR Context: Government of India and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) here today signed a $750 million “COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Programme” to assist India to strengthen its response to the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on poor and vulnerable households. Concept: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is a […]
Subject: Arts and culture Context: The Kodumanal excavation in Tamil Nadu of 10 pots and bowls, instead of the usual three or four pots, placed outside three-chambered burial cists and inside the cairn-circle, threw light on burial rituals and the concept of afterlife in megalithic culture. Concept: It was once a flourishing ancient trade city […]
Subject: Polity Context: Amid the on-going India-China border tension, a Parliamentary Standing Committee report on Sino-India relations post the Doklam standoff has been released. Concept: The Constitution of India makes a mention of these committees at different places, but without making any specific provisions regarding their composition, tenure, functions, etc. All these matters are dealtby the […]
Subject: Polity Context: Rajya Sabha election has been concluded for 19 seats recently. Concept: A third of Members of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha (which is a permanent House and is not subject to dissolution), from each State retire once in two years and polls are held to fill up the vacancies. Only elected members […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: A study published in Nature Medicine suggests that antibodies in individuals who recovered from SARSCoV2 infection start to decrease within two three months after infection. Besides inducing neutralising antibodies, novel coronavirus has also been found to induce cellular immunity. Concept: The immune system was separated into two branches: humoral immunity, for […]
Subject: Polity Context: Increasing suicides in the country bring to limelight section 309 of IPC Concept: Anyone who survives an attempted suicide can be booked under Section 309 IPC, which deals with “Attempt to commit suicide”. Contrary to popular perception that it has been repealed, continues to exist in the statute book. The Mental Healthcare […]