The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by defence minister accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for Read More …
Category: PRELIMS TERMINOLOGY
Advanced Land Navigation System (ALNS)
Indexation in calculating long-term capital gains (LTCG)
In the Union Budget 2024, the finance minister has made an adjustment regarding the treatment Read More …
What is Climate Finance Taxonomy?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget for 2024-25, announced that the government Read More …
What are Bharat Small Reactors (BSRs)?
The Union Budget 2024-25 has proposed a partnership between the government and the private sector Read More …
Magnetofossils
Researchers have spotted Magnetofossils in rock varnish layers in Ladakh. What are magentofossils?
Global economic ‘soft landing’
According to a recent report, G20 draft communique sees growing chance of global economic ‘soft Read More …
NOvA experiment’s new study on neutrinos
The NOvA (NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance) experiment in Minnesota in the U.S. is shedding light Read More …
Representative Concentration Pathways
According to a new study, climate change will significantly alter habitats for key tree species Read More …
What is U-WIN portal?
The Government of India will soon launch U-WIN portal to record vaccinations across India. This Read More …
CdTe (Cadmium telluride) technology
A recent study shows CdTe (Cadmium telluride) technology exhibiting some of the least environmental impact Read More …
James Webb telescope reveals weather on cosmic brown dwarfs
A team of astronomers have used James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to map the weather Read More …
Vietnam’s ‘Bamboo diplomacy’
Vietnam’s Marxist-Leninist veteran leader and former president Nguyen Phu Trong has died. He was 80. Read More …
Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
The CrowdStrike update triggered a global outage resulting in Microsoft Windows machines experiencing blue screen Read More …
Neutral or natural rate of interest
A Reserve Bank of India (RBI) study has estimated the neutral or natural rate of Read More …
Mashco Piro tribes
Survival International has released rare pictures of the Mashco Piro tribespeople, one of the world’s Read More …
Positive Indigenisation List (PIL)
Department of Defence Production (DDP), Ministry of Defence has notified the fifth Positive Indigenisation List Read More …
Kashmiri willow
Professional cricketers usually choose English willow bats, however, over the last few years, Kashmiri willow Read More …
Staff-level agreement (SLA)
Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reached an agreement for a $7 billion, 37-month Read More …
Wolbachia bacteria
Researchers from Shenyang Agricultural University (SAU), China have shown that Wolbachia bacteria had manipulated the Read More …
Last Universal Common Ancestor or LUCA
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed more light Read More …
NASA’s CHAPEA project
Recently, four volunteer crew members of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) project Read More …
Ortho-Chloro Benzylidene Malononitrile
Indian security agencies have seize Pakistan-bound consignment, consisting of internationally banned chemicals used for tear Read More …
Leggett Garg Inequality (LGI)
The Quantum Information and Computing (QuIC) lab at Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru had performed a Read More …
India’s scientific deep-drilling programme
Scientific deep-drilling is the enterprise of strategically digging boreholes to observe and analyse deeper parts Read More …
Mitochondrial donation
Mitochondrial donation is a new IVF-based method that gives people with faulty mitochondrial DNA the Read More …