Anti-Defection Law: The Vice-President has said that the time has come to amend the anti-defection legislation in the country to plug existing loopholes. The anti-defection law punishes individual Members of Parliament (MPs)/MLAs for leaving one party for another. Parliament added it to the Constitution as the Tenth Schedule in 1985. Its purpose was to bring […]
Category: Current Affairs
What Is Vertical Farming?
What Is Vertical Farming? India is evolving every day with something new. Also, industrialization is increasing dramatically due to which many arable lands are at greater risk. Vertical farming in India is the answer to all these problems. The modern concept was first proposed in 1999 by professor Dickson Despommier. His concept centered on the […]
What Is Seafloor Spreading?
What Is Seafloor Spreading? According to a study that analyzed data from the last 19 million years, Seafloor spreading rates have slowed down by roughly 35% globally. For this study, researchers selected 18 of the world’s largest spreading ridges (mid-ocean ridges). A ridge or a mountain ridge is a geographical feature consisting of a chain […]
Blue Straggler Stars
Blue Straggler Stars: Scientists at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, have found support for one way to understand peculiarity about Blue Straggler Star. The researchers made use of the observations by the UVIT instrument (Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) of Astrosat, India’s first science observatory in space. Earlier in September 2021, in the first-ever comprehensive analysis of […]
Falklands Dispute
Falklands Dispute: “The Commission for Dialogue” with the United Kingdom on the Falkland Islands was recently inaugurated by India and Argentina. The commission seeks to settle the territorial dispute over the Islas Malvinas that are known as the Falkland Islands in the UK. The British, in 1765, were the first to settle West Falkland, but […]
What Are Invasive Species?
What Are Invasive Species? Senna spectabilis is an invasive species found mostly in the forest areas of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR). The dearth of effective steps to arrest the rampant growth of these invasive plants is a matter of serious concern to the conservation of wildlife habitats of the Western Ghats. The invasive species […]
Household Consumer Spending Survey
Household Consumer Spending Survey: The All-India Household Consumer Expenditure Survey is usually conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) every five years. It is designed to collect information on the consumption spending patterns of households across the country, both urban and rural. The data gathered in this exercise reveals the average expenditure on goods (food […]
Arunachal Pradesh – Assam Border Dispute
Arunachal Pradesh – Assam Border Dispute: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma have decided to form district-level committees for settling their inter-state boundary disputes. Recently, the Union government gave the seal of approval to an agreement to partially resolve the disputed sectors on the Assam-Meghalaya border. Assam has […]
Raisina Dialogue
Raisina Dialogue: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the seventh edition of Raisina Dialogue on April 25, 2022. President of the European Union Ursula Von Der Leyen is the chief guest at the Dialogue. The three-day Dialogue is based on the theme – Terranova, impassioned, impatient, imperiled. There are six broad thematic pillars of the Dialogue […]
Carbon Tax
Carbon Tax: Dozens of nations and many local governments are putting a price tag on greenhouse gas emissions that are increasing flooding, droughts and other costly catastrophes. Pennsylvania becomes the first major fossil fuel-producing state in the US to adopt a carbon pricing policy to address climate change. It joins 11 states where coal, oil […]
