Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme For Drone Industry: Union Cabinet has approved the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for Drone Industry. The PLI Scheme for the Drones and Drone components industry addresses the strategic, tactical and operational uses of this revolutionary technology. The total amount allocated for the PLI scheme for drones and drone components […]
What are Tarballs?
Tarballs Were Seen Lying On The Shore Of Mumbai Beach: Black oil-emanating balls also called Tarballs were seen, lying on the shore of Mumbai Beach. Tarballs are dark-coloured, sticky balls of oil that form when crude oil floats on the ocean surface. They are formed by weathering of crude oil in marine environments. Some of […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 16th September 2021
Today Current Affairs: 16th September 2021 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Reservation In Promotion: Scheduled Castes And Scheduled Tribes.
Reservation In Promotion In Government Jobs To Scheduled Castes And Scheduled Tribes.: The Supreme Court said it was not ready to reopen a debate on its judgments granting reservation in promotion in government jobs to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. It reiterated that it was up to the State governments to find ways and means […]
Project Udaan
Project Udaan: With an aim to break the language barrier that many students face when they join institutes of higher education, IIT-Bombay launched ‘Project Udaan’. It enables translation of textbooks and other study material related to engineering and other streams. Ganesh and his team have built an Artificial Intelligence-based translation ecosystem, which can help translate […]
QUAD Meeting 2021
Quad: The White House announced that US President Joe Biden will be hosting the first in-person meeting of the Quad countries on September 24. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian PM Scott Morrison and Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga will be present at the meeting. Following the Indian Ocean tsunami, India, Japan, Australia, and the US created […]
BRICS Young Scientists Forum
BRICS Young Scientists Forum: Dr Renu Swarup, Secretary Department of Science and Technology highlighted the importance of cooperation, collaboration and connections for science to move forward, at the BRICS Young Scientists Forum. The BRICS-YSF summits were first hosted by India in 2016, followed by China in 2017, South Africa in 2018, Brazil in 2019, and […]
Hindi Diwas 2021
Hindi Diwas: Hindi Diwas was celebrated across the country on September 14, 2021. It was on this day in 1949 that the constituent assembly adopted Hindi written in Devanagari as the official language of the country. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India. It is celebrated across schools and […]
Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh
Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently laid the foundation stone for Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh. It will provide affiliation to 395 colleges of the Aligarh division. Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh Born in a royal family on December 1, 1886 in Hathras, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh was a freedom […]
Indian Railways Organization for Alternate Fuels
Hydrogen Fuel: Ministry of Railways has decided to close down the Indian Railways Organization for Alternate Fuels with effect from September 7, 2021. The closure comes nearly a month after the IROAF had floated a tender for “hydrogen fuel cell-based technology” for retrofitting the existing Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU). All work-related to hydrogen fuel […]
