The National Payment Corporation of India’s (NPCI) Unified Payment Interface (UPI) wants to make small Read More …
Category: PRELIMS TERMINOLOGY
‘UPI lite – On-Device wallet’
Bernardinelli-Bernstein
A comet with a nucleus 50 times bigger than normal is barrelling towards Earth at Read More …
Vaquita porpoise
Recently, the United States Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has warned that Vaquita porpoise is Read More …
Twitter’s ‘Poison pill’ strategy
Twitter Inc. has adopted a limited duration shareholder rights plan, often called a “poison pill,” Read More …
e-DAR’ (e-Detailed Accident Report) web portal
The ‘e-DAR’ (e-Detailed Accident Report) web portal has been designed by the government in consultation Read More …
IMD rainfall prediction and LPA
India is likely to receive a normal monsoon for the fourth consecutive year, the India Meteorological Department Read More …
Decentralized Domestic Wastewater Management and Johkasou technology.
The Union Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) Read More …
White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV)
Scientists have developed a handy diagnostic tool that detects an aquaculture pathogen known as the Read More …
What is Learning Poverty (LP) ?
If before the pandemic about 53% of children were not able to read a simple Read More …
Infrastructure debt funds allowed to issue zero coupon bonds
The Income Tax department has amended rules to enable infrastructure debt fund and NBFCs to Read More …
Cabinet approves distribution of fortified rice across Government Schemes
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, on April 8 approved a scheme to distribute fortified Read More …
RBI introduced Standing Deposit Facility (SDF)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on April 8 introduced the Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) Read More …
Punjab declres gazetted holiday on Nabha Dass birth anniversary
Punjab government on April 8 announced gazetted holiday on the birth anniversary of Guru Nabha Read More …
Ael- The rarest of blood groups
A new blood group, Ael has been identified in a blood donor at an Ahmedabad Read More …
Festival of Gangaur
In Rajasthan, the festival of Gangaur was celebrated on April 4 across the state with Read More …
Digital Banking Units (DBUs)
As announced in the Union Budget 2022-23, 75 Digital Banking Units (DBUs) in different districts Read More …
What is ‘Rights to Nature?
Chile is in the process of granting rights to nature in its constitution and could Read More …
Unesco’s City of Literature Programme
Kozhikode was proposed by the Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA) to be branded as Read More …
NCW launches legal aid clinic
In a move to make legal aid more accessible for women, the National Commission for Read More …
What is Bucharest Nine (B9)?
Recently, the envoys to India of B9 block jointly wrote an article in The Indian Read More …
World’s first wildlife conservation bond (WCB)
The World Bank has issued the world’s first wildlife conservation bond (WCB), the money from Read More …
Bali interim peace clause
The United States of America has questioned India’s “skyrocketing” rice exports in 2021 and accused Read More …
What is Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missile ?
Russia’s military on March 19 said that it had fired a hypersonic ballistic missile and Read More …
What are MANPADS ?
The US and NATO allies are supplying arms shipments to Ukraine at an increased pace Read More …
Coal supply under bridge linkage
The Union Ministry of Power has recommended to the Union Ministry of Coal to supply Read More …