New Zealand’s Bill On Tobacco Endgame: To fulfil its plan to be smokefree by 2025, the New Zealand Parliament recently tabled the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill. Emulating New Zealand, Malaysia is also considering a ban on smoking and the sale of all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to people born after […]
Month: August 2022
India Has Signed Bilateral Air Service Agreement With 116 Countries
India Has Signed Bilateral Air Service Agreement With 116 Countries: India has signed a bilateral air service agreement with 116 countries including neighbouring Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Pakistan along with the US, UK, UAE etc Airline can operate to/from a point in India: Any designated foreign airline can operate to/from a point in India if it […]
African Swine Fever In India
African Swine Fever In India: African Swine Fever has been confirmed for the first time, at a private pig farm in in Kerala, after more than 15 pigs on the farm had died due to the disease in the last ten days. It is a highly contagious and fatal animal disease that infects and leads […]
AI In Agriculture
AI In Agriculture: According to NITI Aayog, AI has the potential to add $1 trillion to India’s economy by 2035. And, as per some experts and academicians, a significant amount of this would be in the agriculture sector. Application of the AI in agriculture: Efficient and cost-effective resource and yield management in the agricultural sector. […]
AlphaFold
AlphaFold: DeepMind, a company owned by Google, announced this week that it had predicted the three-dimensional structures of more than 200 million proteins using AlphaFold. AlphaFold is an AI-based protein structure prediction tool. It used processes based on “training, learning, retraining and relearning” to predict the structures of the entire 214 million unique protein sequences […]
Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS)
Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS): RDSS is a reform-based and result-linked scheme to improve the financial sustainability and operational efficiencies of DISCOMs. This is done by financial assistance for the modernization of distribution infrastructure e.g., Smart Prepaid Meters. This is aimed to: Reduce AT&C loss by 12-15% Reduce financial deficit (average cost of supply-average revenue […]
Lumpy Skin Disease
Lumpy Skin Disease: With the lumpy skin disease spreading fast among bovines in western and northern Rajasthan, cattle-rearers in the State are suffering heavy losses. The infection has spread to about 25,000 cattle in the last couple of months and resulted in the death of more than 1,200 animals. Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 2nd August 2022
Today Current Affairs: 2nd August 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Hybrid Electric Vehicle
Hybrid Electric Vehicle: In recent months, automakers Maruti Suzuki, Toyota and Honda have launched hybrid electric vehicles in India, offering car buyers more choices in the nascent electric vehicle market. A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) uses an ICE (a petrol/diesel engine) and one or more electric motors to run. It is powered by the electric […]
Electoral Bonds
Electoral Bonds: The State Bank of India (SBI) shared data reporting that Donations to political parties through electoral bonds (EBs) have crossed the Rs 10,000-crore mark. In the 21st sale of EBs conducted in July 2022, parties received another Rs 389.5 crore from EB purchases. The total amount collected by parties has gone up to […]
