State Energy And Climate Index : NITI Aayog Gujarat has topped the list for larger States in the NITI Aayog’s State Energy and Climate Index–Round 1 that has ranked States and Union Territories (UTs) on six parameters including discoms’ performance, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. The States have been categorised based on size and geographical […]
RBI Draft Norms For Trade Via E-commerce
RBI Draft Norms For Trade Via E-commerce: The Reserve Bank of India has proposed to modify the existing norms that are in place with the aim of rationalizing and simplifying the process for payment settlement for imports and exports through e-commerce. The draft guidelines named ‘Processing and Settlement of small value Export and Import related […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 12th April 2022
Today Current Affairs: 12th April 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
What is Coastal Erosion?
Coastal Erosion: The Ministry of Earth Sciences informed the Lok Sabha that of the 6,907.18-km-long coastline of the Indian mainland, about 34% is under varying degrees of erosion, while 26% is of an accretional nature and the remaining 40% is in a stable state. The National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR), Chennai, an attached office […]
Enhanced Pinaka Mk-I Rocket System
Enhanced Pinaka Mk-I Rocket System: The Enhanced Pinaka Mk-I Rocket System (EPRS) was successfully test fired in the Pokhran range in Rajasthan. As part of the same set of trials, the Area Denial Munition (ADM) was also successfully tested. The tests also validated the performance of different variants of munitions and fuzes that can be […]
Reconstitution Of The Mullaperiyar Dam’s Supervisory Committee
Reconstitution Of The Mullaperiyar Dam’s Supervisory Committee: The Supreme Court ordered the reconstitution of the Mullaperiyar dam’s supervisory committee. The committee will include one technical expert each from Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the two States involved in the dispute concerning safety of the dam. The court has empowered the panel with functions and powers on […]
Hindi Compulsory In The Eight Northeastern States
Hindi Compulsory In The Eight Northeastern States: The Government of India provided that Hindi would be made compulsory up to Class 10 in the eight northeastern states. Hindi is described as “the language of India”. However, the move has been met with protests from various organisations in the Northeast. Also, several south Indian states have […]
Who Was Har Gobind Khorana?
Har Gobind Khorana: The year 2022 marks the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Har Gobind Khorana. Born: January 9, 1922, Raipur, India He began research on nucleic acids during a fellowship at the University of Cambridge (1951) under Sir Alexander Todd. He made another contribution to genetics in 1970 when he and his research […]
Fortified Rice To Distribute Under Government Programmes
Fortified Rice To Distribute Under Government Programmes: The Union Cabinet has approved a scheme to distribute fortified rice under government programmes. Food Corporation of India and state agencies have already procured 88.65 LMT (lakh tonnes) of fortified rice for supply and distribution. In 2019, the government approved a Centrally sponsored pilot scheme for fortification of […]
Coal Gasification Plant : Jindal Steel & Power Limited
Coal Gasification Plant : Jindal Steel & Power Limited Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JSPL) has plans of setting up a coal gasification plant — the second in the country — at its Raigarh plant in Chhattisgarh. India is committed to cut consumption of coal, a primary pollutant, in power plants to half by 2030 […]
