Nano Urea: India will produce over 6cr bottles of Nano urea and make it available to farmers in 2022-23. Urea is chemical nitrogen fertilizer, white in colour, which artificially provides nitrogen, a major nutrient required by plants. Liquid nano urea is essentially urea in the form of a nanoparticle. It is a patented chemical nitrogen […]
Category: Current Affairs
DigiYatra
DigiYatra: The Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), run by GMR, announced the soft launch of the Centre’s DigiYatra initiative, rolling out the beta version of its app for Android platforms. The ‘DigiYatra’ is a Biometric Enabled Seamless Travel experience (BEST) based on Facial Recognition Technology. It aims to provide a paperless and seamless travel experience […]
National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM)
National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM): National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM), launched in 2021, has achieved the target of imparting Intellectual Property (IP) awareness and basic training to 1 million students. The target has been achieved ahead of the deadline which was 15 August 2022. National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM) The pan-India mission […]
Global Employment Trends for Youth: ILO
Global Employment Trends for Youth: ILO The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has released a report titled “Global Employment Trends for Youth 2022: Investing in transforming futures for young people”. Findings Globally: Gender Disparity in EPR: Young women exhibited a much lower Employment-to-Population ratio (EPR), showing that young men are almost 1.5 times more likely than […]
First Set Of Guidelines For Digital Lending : RBI
First Set Of Guidelines For Digital Lending : RBI The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued the first set of guidelines for digital lending, to crack down on illegal activities by certain players. Towards addressing concerns that had sprung up, the RBI had constituted a Working Group on ‘digital lending including lending through online platforms […]
World Elephant Day
World Elephant Day: World Elephant Day is an international annual event on August 12, dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world’s elephants. It was conceived in 2011 by Canadian filmmakers Patricia Sims and Michael Clark of Canazwest Pictures, and Sivaporn Dardarananda, Secretary-General of the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation in Thailand. It was officially founded, […]
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A woman from Bengaluru has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court to stop her Noida-based friend, who has been suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome since 2014, from travelling to Europe to undergo a physician-assisted euthanasia. Also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is a serious and debilitating disease […]
Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS)
Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS): Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah has said that the government will bring model by-laws to govern all Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) in the country. He said, the sick and defunct PACS should be revived or taken for liquidation. Amit Shah was addressing a national conference on rural […]
Butterfly Mines
Butterfly Mines: The UK Ministry of Defence, in its intelligence assessment of the ongoing war in Ukraine, has and sounded an alarm on the possible use of PFM-1 series ‘Butterfly Mines’ by the Russian military in Donetsk and Kramatorsk. The PFM-1 and PFM-1S are two kinds of anti-personnel landmines that are commonly referred to as […]
Langya Henipavirus
Langya Henipavirus: Almost three years after the novel coronavirus was detected in China, a new zoonotic virus has been discovered in the country’s two eastern provinces with 35 infections identified so far. This new type of Henipavirus is also being called Langya Henipavirus or the LayV. The newly discovered virus is a “phylogenetically distinct Henipavirus”. […]
