PM-SURAJ Portal: The PM-SURAJ portal disbursed Rs 1,389.61 crore in loans to 1.39 lakh entrepreneurs in the 2024-25 fiscal year, surpassing its target. Pradhan Mantri Samajik Utthan evam Rozgar Adharit Jankalyan (PM-SURAJ) portal was launched by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in 2024. Objective is to provide credit support to entrepreneurs from disadvantaged […]
Wajid Ali Shah
Wajid Ali Shah: Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was not exiled to Calcutta but he came to the city because he wanted to take a ship to London to submit a petition but that departure was restricted and he stayed on, according to a biography by his great-grandson, recently translated from Urdu to English. Nawab Wajid […]
Wet Dress Rehearsal
Wet Dress Rehearsal: NASA found a hydrogen leak during a wet dress rehearsal of its Artemis II mission. It is the final practice run for a high-stakes rocket launch. The “wet” in the name refers to the loading of cryogenic fuel (typically liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen for large rockets) into the rocket’s massive tanks. […]
Gilbert Hill
Gilbert Hill: After Anand Mahindra highlighted Gilbert Hill in a recent post, curiosity around the Mumbai landmark has surged. It is located in Maharashtra. The hill has a sheer vertical face and is one of the oldest basalt rock formations in the world. According to geological records, only three such columnar basalt formations exist in […]
Public Financial Management System
Public Financial Management System: The Minister of State for finance informed the Rajya Sabha about the Public Financial Management System (PFMS). It is a web-based online transaction system for fund management and e-payment to implementing agencies and other beneficiaries. It is a Centralized Transaction System & Platform, providing end to end financial management services to […]
National Large Solar Telescope
National Large Solar Telescope: In this year’s Union Budget, the government sanctioned the establishment of two new telescopes namely National Large Solar Telescope and National Large Optical-Near Infrared Telescope to study the sun and the origins of the universe. It will be established in the Merak region near the Pangong Tso Lake. It is meant […]
Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary
Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary: A male gibbon was found electrocuted to death on Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary (HGWS) in Jorhat. Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Assam. It is the only sanctuary in India named after a gibbon due to its distinction for containing the densest gibbon populations in Assam. The Bhogdoi River creates […]
Lymphatic Filariasis
Lymphatic Filariasis: The Union Health Minister launched the Annual Nationwide Mass Drug Administration (MDA) Campaign for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis. Lymphatic Filariasis is commonly known as elephantiasis (Haatipaon) which is a neglected tropical disease. It is a vector-borne disease transmitted by the female Culex mosquito. It is caused by infection with parasites classified as […]
Sarvam Vision and Bulbul V3
Sarvam Vision and Bulbul V3: India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) ambitions, Bengaluru-based startup Sarvam AI’s latest models Sarvam Vision and Bulbul V3 have reportedly outperformed Google Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT on India-specific AI benchmarks, marking a significant step toward building sovereign AI ecosystems tailored to Indian needs. Sarvam Vision: It is a 3 billion-parameter vision-language model […]
Corruption Perceptions Index 2025
Corruption Perceptions Index 2025: India has climbed to the 91st position on the global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), reflecting a slight improvement from its 96th rank in the previous year. The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released annually by Transparency International, ranks 182 countries and territories based on perceived levels of public sector corruption. It uses […]
