US Inflation Hit a Record High Of 9.1% In June 2022: US Inflation hit a record high of 9.1% in June 2022, the highest in 40 years. US observers have argued that the US central bank will not be able to achieve a soft landing for the economy if the yield curve inverts. Start of […]
NITI Aayog Releases Report On Digital Banks
NITI Aayog Releases Report On Digital Banks: NITI Aayog’s report makes a case and offers a template and roadmap for a licensing and regulatory regime for digital banks. It focuses on avoiding any regulatory or policy arbitrage and offers a level playing field to incumbents as well as competitors. The report recommends a carefully calibrated […]
Reintroduction Of Cheetahs
Reintroduction Of Cheetahs: India and Namibia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for reintroduction of cheetahs into the historical range in India. First batch of eight cheetahs comprising four male and as many female cheetahs are expected to arrive in India before Independence Day. The cheetahs will be released in Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh. […]
SPRINT Challenges
SPRINT Challenges: PM unveiled ‘SPRINT challenges’, an initiative aimed at boosting the usage of indigenous technology in the Indian Navy. Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Organisation (NIIO) in cooperation with the Defence Innovation Organisation (DIO), aims to induct at least 75 new indigenous technologies/products into the Indian Navy. The collaborative project is named SPRINT — Supporting […]
INS Sindhudhvaj
INS Sindhudhvaj: The Indian Navy decommissioned its Kilo class Submarine, INS Sindhudhvaj from its service at Vishakapatnam after 35 years of service. With its decommissioned Navy has left with only 15 conventional submarines in service It was commissioned into the Indian Navy in June 1987. It was one of the 10 Kilo-class submarines, India acquired […]
Green Pit Vipers
Green Pit Vipers: On World Snake Day (16th July, 2022), there was consensus for developing effective antivenom against the venom of the Green Pit Viper. Green pit viper is not more lethal than Russell’s viper, but the hemotoxic venom it injects prevents the blood in the body from clotting resulting in internal bleeding. Moreover, the […]
Pythagoras’s Theorem As “Fake News” : NEP
Pythagoras’s Theorem As “Fake News” : NEP A position paper by the Karnataka government on the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has described Pythagoras’s theorem as “fake news”. It has referred to a text called the Baudhayana Sulbasutra, in which a specific shloka refers to the theorem. About Pythagoras: Evidence suggests that the Greek philosopher […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 20th July 2022
Today Current Affairs: 20th July 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Jagriti Mascot
Jagriti Mascot: A mascot named Jagriti has been launched by the Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA) to empower consumers and further generating awareness of their rights. It would be projected as an empowered consumer who is spreading awareness about consumer rights & addressing solutions to the problems faced by the consumers. It would help […]
DIGI YATRA
DIGI YATRA: The Consultative Committee meeting of the Ministry of Civil Aviation was held in New Delhi to discuss ‘DIGI YATRA’. It is a project conceived to achieve contactless, seamless processing of passengers at Airports, based on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). The project envisages that any traveller may pass through various checkpoints at the airport […]
