Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister has made a request for a Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) with Read More …
Category: PRELIMS TERMINOLOGY
Sri Lanka made request for Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI)
Terminal heat stress in wheat
India is trying to scale up the wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) exports amid the Ukraine Read More …
National Cyber Security Incident Response Exercise (NCX India)
National Security Advisor Shri Ajit Doval on April 18 inaugurated the National Cyber Security Incident Read More …
Priority Sector Lending Certificates (PSLCs)
Priority Sector Lending Certificates (PSLCs) are instruments that enable banks to achieve their priority sector Read More …
Draft Right of Way (RoW) guidelines
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has come up with the draft Right of Way (RoW) Read More …
‘UPI lite – On-Device wallet’
The National Payment Corporation of India’s (NPCI) Unified Payment Interface (UPI) wants to make small Read More …
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 …