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Hindi Diwas Subject – Polity Context – Protests mark Hindi Diwas Concept – Every year, 14th September is celebrated as Hindi Diwas in India. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, was adopted as the official language of the Republic of India on 14th September, 1949. Besides Hindi, English is the other official language […]
Bandipur Tiger Reserve Subject – Environment Context – Tiger, injured in fight with porcupine, dies of wounds caused by snare in Bandipur reserve Concept – To know about Bandipur Tiger Reserve, please click here.
Headline And Core Inflation Subject – Economics Context – Fuel prices quicken WPI inflation to 11.39% in August Concept – To know about Headline and Core Inflation, please click here.
Daily Prelims Notes 14 September 2021 Table Of Contents Thawing Permafrost Software as a Service (SaaS) Electricity usage by Bitcoin Stealthing Input Tax Credit and Inverted Tax Structure in GST Inflation Basmati Rice Suryamitra Skill Development Programme Groundwater Contamination Black Tigers Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) 2010 Asymmetric Federalism 1. Thawing Permafrost […]
Asymmetric Federalism Subject: Polity Context: Manipur special status The term asymmetrical federalism refers to “differences in the status of legislative or executive powers assigned by the constitution to different regional units”. It is a flexible type of union of states which allows the government to cut different deals with different states in special […]
Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) 2010 Subject – Governance Context – Govt. curbs funding for 10 climate change, child labour NGOs Concept – To know about FCRA, please click here.
Black Tigers Subject – Environment Context – NCBS study of ‘black tigers’ has shed light on genetic mystery. Concept – Black tigers — the tigers whose stripes are almost fused together in patches threatening to obliterate parts of their burnished orange coats. An estimated 37% of Panthera tigris in the Similipal Tiger Reserve (in eastern India) are pseudomelanistic, characterised by […]
Groundwater Contamination Subject – Environment Context – Not just groundwater, flouride has poisoned agricultural soil, crops in Bengal. Concept – West Bengal has been grappling with groundwater contamination for decades. About 12 per cent of the population in eight of the state’s 23 districts is impacted by water contaminated by fluoride. Groundwater in […]
Suryamitra Skill Development Programme Subject – Government Schemes and Programs Context – Vice President urges States to promote PV cells, solar module making Concept – The National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), an autonomous institution of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), is the apex National R&D institution in the field of […]