National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) : Bengaluru Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Amit Shah inaugurated the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) campus in Bengaluru. The NATGRID CEO informed that the services of NATGRID solution will be available to 11 central agencies and police of all States and Union Territories. It will link user agencies with data […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 4th May 2022
Today Current Affairs: 4th May 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Transnistria : Russia-Ukraine War
Transnistria: Transnistria, the tiny breakaway region of Moldova, risks being dragged into the Russia-Ukraine war because of reports of a series of explosions in its territory. The de facto state lies between Moldova to its west and Ukraine towards its east. Often described as a “remnant of the Soviet Union”, Transnistria declared independence like Moldova […]
Stubble Burning : Chhattisgarh Model
What Is Stubble Burning? With wheat yield down this year, the rate of tudi is very high and farmers can earn huge profits by selling it. But despite that, 3,895 field fires have been reported from April 1 to April 29 in Punjab. Farmers opt for stubble burning because they do not have alternatives for […]
Basava Jayanti
Basava Jayanti: Basava Jayanti marks the birth anniversary of Lord Basavanna, the 12th-century poet-philosopher, and the founding saint of the Lingayat faith. This year it falls on 3rd May 2022 Basavanna was a philosopher, statesman, Kannada poet and a social reformer during the reign of the Kalachuri-dynasty king Bijjala I in Karnataka. Basavanna spread social […]
National Open Access Registry (NOAR)
National Open Access Registry (NOAR): National Open Access Registry (NOAR) has successfully gone live from 1st May 2022. NOAR is an integrated single window electronic platform accessible to all stakeholders including open access participants, traders, power exchanges, national/regional/state load despatch centres for electronic processing of short-term open access application thereby automating the administration of the […]
Sixth Edition Of The India-Germany Inter-Governmental Consultations
Sixth Edition Of The India-Germany Inter-Governmental Consultations: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz today co-chaired the sixth edition of the India-Germany Inter-Governmental Consultations-IGC in Berlin The biennial IGC is a unique dialogue format that also sees participation of several Ministers from both sides. This was the Prime Minister’s first IGC with Chancellor […]
Koilastila Gas Field : Bangladesh
Koilastila Gas Field : Bangladesh Bangladesh has discovered a new gas field with the capacity to produce 20 million cubic feet of gas per day (MMCFD) at the Koilastila Gas field. Koilastila Gas Field is one of the five gas fields purchased from the Shell Oil company by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 So […]
100 Years Of Delhi University
100 Years Of Delhi University: On May 1, 2022 Delhi University marked the beginning of its centennial celebrations. The idea for the university began taking shape in 1911 when it was decided to shift the capital of India to Delhi from Calcutta. The onset of World War I, differences over the nature of the would-be […]
Ion Concentration Polarisation:
Ion Concentration Polarisation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kg, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water. This device utilises electrical power to remove particles from drinking water. The unit relies on a technique called ion concentration polarisation. Rather than filtering water, […]
