Vietnam’s Marxist-Leninist veteran leader and former president Nguyen Phu Trong has died. He was 80. Read More …
Category: PRELIMS TERMINOLOGY
Vietnam’s ‘Bamboo diplomacy’
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 …
Anand Marriage Act
The National Commission for Minorities held a video conference meeting with 18 States/UTs to discuss Read More …
Information ratio
Market regulator SEBI has proposed that all mutual funds mandatorily disclose risk-adjusted return, not just Read More …
Digital Bharat Nidhi
Recently, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) released draft rules to operationalise the Digital Bharat Nidhi. Read More …
Vaquitas
After a recent survey, researchers estimate they saw only six to eight individual vaquitas in Read More …
BAP1 gene and IGF-1 hormone
A recent study, published in Nature Genetics, has identified over 5,000 genetic variations that contribute Read More …
Aphelion
Earth reaches aphelion every July. This year it did so on 5 July. Key points
People’s Biodiversity Register (PBR)
Recently, Thazhakara grama panchayat in Alappuzha (Kerala) released the second volume of the People’s Biodiversity Read More …
Xenophrys apatani: A new species of forest-dwelling horned frog
A team of researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has recorded a new Read More …
Senna spectabilis
Environmental organisations in Wayanad have urged the Forest department to maintain transparency in a project Read More …
What Is A Mule Account?
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das asked banks to step up efforts against Read More …
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)
Researchers have carried out an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms underlying the flexibility of crystals Read More …