Report On “Making India a Global Power House On Farm Machinery Industry”: National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) Report on “Making India a Global Power House on Farm Machinery Industry” released recently. NCAER has analyzed the non-tractor farm machinery industry from both demand and supply side perspectives, bringing out the challenges in the sector, […]
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Vikas Engine : ISRO
Vikas Engine : ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully tested the throttling of Vikas, its workhorse launch-vehicle engine. VIKAS (an acronym for Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai) engine is a family of liquid-fuelled rocket engines conceptualized and designed by the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre of ISRO in the 1970s. The early productions involved imported […]
Quaoar : Dwarf Planet
Quaoar : Dwarf Planet Astronomers have recently spotted a ring around a Pluto-sized dwarf planet called Quaoar in the outer reaches of the solar system. Quaoar is a dwarf planet that’s located in the Kuiper Belt at the solar system’s edge. It is about 697 miles wide (1,121 kilometers). It is roughly one-twelfth the diameter […]
Corbet Tiger Reserve : All Construction activities Banned
Corbet Tiger Reserve : All Construction activities Banned The Supreme Court recently banned all construction activities in the core areas of tiger reserves national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. A Supreme court-appointed panel noticed that illegal constructions for the establishment of a tiger safari were being done within the buffer area of Corbett Tiger Reserve in […]
IEEE C-DOT Certified Telecom Expert Program (ICCTEP)
IEEE C-DOT Certified Telecom Expert Program (ICCTEP): The Secretary (Telecom) of, the Government of India launched the ‘IEEE C-DOT Certified Telecom Expert Program (ICCTEP)’ IEEE C-DOT Certified Telecom Expert Program is a concrete step in the furtherance of wide-ranging collaboration between the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Centre for Development of […]
Integrative Medicine Centers
Integrative Medicine Center: The Government of India is to inaugurate Integrative Medicine Centers. These centres will operate at Government hospitals. The centres will mainly focus on Ayurvedic medicines and will use modern technologies. The first Integrative Medicine Centre was inaugurated at the Safdarjang Hospital in Delhi. The main objective of the initiative is to use […]
Monetary Policy Updates : RBI
Monetary Policy Updates : RBI The committee recently held its meeting on February 8, 2023. Highlights: RBI hikes benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points to 6.50 per cent. MSF rate will stand revised at 6.75% RBI projects 6.4 pc economic growth for 2023-24, lower than 7 pc this fiscal Inflation to come down to […]
Child Marriages In Assam : 2,000 People Arrested
Child Marriages In Assam : 2,000 People Arrested More than 2,000 people have been arrested in a statewide crackdown on child marriages that have taken place in the state of Assam. UN estimates suggest that 1.5 million girls get married before they turn 18 in India. According to the 2011 census, 44 per cent of […]
Left Wing Extremism : Decline In Violence
Left Wing Extremism : Decline In Violence The Union Home Minister in a meeting said that for the first time in 4 decades, the number of deaths of civilians and security forces in Left Wing Extremism (LWE) came down under 100 in 2022. Violence related to LWE had come down by 76% in 2022 as […]
New Haj Policy
New Haj Policy: The ministry of Minority Affairs has announced a new Haj policy under which the application forms have been made available for free and the package cost per pilgrim has been reduced by Rs 50,000. The reduction of Rs 50,000 comes primarily in the form of relaxation of norms for foreign currency ,earlier […]
