GS Paper III
News Excerpt:
The pandemic’s aftermath has led to the Centre and states accumulating a high level of debt. Bringing it down will be a challenge for the next government.
GS Paper III
News Excerpt:
The pandemic’s aftermath has led to the Centre and states accumulating a high level of debt. Bringing it down will be a challenge for the next government.
GS Paper II
News Excerpt:
According to the recent findings by RBI, only 1% of the revenue of panchayats was earned by them, with the rest being raised as grants from the State and the Centre.
News Excerpt:
The Subika painting style is intricately linked to the Meitei community’s cultural history through its six surviving manuscripts. Awareness about this unique art form has dwindled over the years, and it is on the brink of extinction due to neglect.
News Excerpt:
The effect of large herbivores on plant abundance and diversity depends more on their size and diet than whether they are native or introduced into their host ecosystems, as per a meta-analysis of over 200 studies.
News Excerpt:
India has contributed USD 32.895 million to the United Nations Regular Budget for 2024, joining the "honour roll" of 36 Member States who have paid their regular budget dues in full to the UN on time.
News Excerpt:
Dusted Apollo (Parnassius stenosemus), a rare high-altitude butterfly, has been sighted and photographed for the first time in Himachal Pradesh, indicating the flourishing diversity of Apollo butterflies in the region.
News Excerpt:
A phase-3 trial in children aged between nine months and 12 years carried out in Malawi, Africa, which is a typhoid fever-endemic setting, has shown that the efficacy of the Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech’s conjugate typhoid toxoid vaccine - Typbar - lasts for at least four years.
GS Paper II & III
News Excerpt:
Recently, People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has filed a lawsuit against the practices of buffalo and bulbul fighting in the Gauhati High Court.
GS Paper III
News Excerpt:
With the help of machine learning, researchers have come up with detailed estimates of ammonia emissions from rice, wheat, and maize crops.
News Excerpt:
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC) in collaboration with the Government of Madhya Pradesh, organized a national event at Sirpur Lake, Indore to celebrate World Wetlands Day (WWD) 2024.
GS Paper II and III
News Excerpt:
The Supreme Court (SC) held that bodies and authorities enforcing environmental laws should be accountable, transparent and efficient in their functioning.
News Excerpt:
In a remarkable feat, India has formally launched its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) at the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.
GS Paper III
News Excerpt: Ahead of the 2024 general elections, the government presented its interim budget on February 1.
GS Paper III
News Excerpt:
Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have confirmed they are joining the BRICS bloc after being invited last year to Johannesburg in the BRICS 2023 summit.
News Excerpt:
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has barred Paytm Payments Bank from accepting fresh deposits and carrying out further transactions.
News Excerpt:
India increases its tally of Ramsar sites to 80 by adding five more wetlands to the list on the eve of World Wetlands Day 2024.
News Excerpt:
Ahead of the 2024 general elections, the government is preparing to present its second interim budget on February 1.
GS Paper II
News Excerpt:
GS Paper III
News Excerpt:
Recently, HSBC Research stated that India needs to “embrace” hybrid vehicles over the next 5-10 years on the way to full electrification, because they are more practical and less polluting.
News Excerpt:
The Goa-based CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) has launched an autonomous underwater vehicle called C-bot, a robot with advanced features for increased surveillance over the coral reefs.
News Excerpt:
In the biodiverse forests of the Western Ghats, a new species of tiny lizards has been found, which researchers have described as a “diminutive dragon.”
GS Paper II
News Excerpt:
India is ranked at 93 out of 180 countries on the corruption perceptions index (CPI) for 2023, according to the Transparency International report.
News Excerpt:
The states of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti recently to implement the Modified Parbati-Kalisindh-Chambal-ERCP (Modified PKC-ERCP) Link Project.
News Excerpt:
According to a groundbreaking four-year study, the results of which were recently released, India has an estimated population of 718 snow leopards in the wild.
News Excerpt:
Recently, The Delhi High Court upheld the constitutional validity of anti-profiteering provisions in the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
GS Paper III
News Excerpt
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare launched the ‘Framework for Voluntary Carbon Market in Agriculture Sector and Accreditation Protocol of Agroforestry Nurseries’.
News Excerpt:
India has nominated the “Maratha Military Landscapes”, a network of forts that showcase the strategic military powers of Maratha rule, for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage list for 2024-25.
News Excerpt:
The Department of Fertilisers (DoF) issued detailed guidelines for the evaluation of “reasonableness” of the maximum retail price (MRP) for all non-urea fertilisers covered under Nutrient-based Subsidy (NBS) scheme.
GS Paper II
News Excerpt:
The Election Commission notified elections to 56 Rajya Sabha seats that will be held on February 27.
News Excerpt:
New possibilities of increasing oestrogen activity in the brains of women have the potential to become preventative therapy against devastating diseases like Alzheimer’s.