Pradhan Mantri Virasat Ka Samvardhan Scheme: Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Ko Kaam Karyakram (PMKKK) has been named as Pradhan Mantri Virasat Ka Samvardhan (PM VIKAS) Scheme by the Ministry of Minority Affairs. It is a Central-Sector Scheme, which focuses on the skilling, entrepreneurship and leadership training requirements of the minority and artisan communities across the […]
Tag: 19th Dec 2022
World Bank Report On Air Pollution
World Bank Report On Air Pollution: The World Bank released a report titled ‘Striving for Clean Air: Air Pollution and Public Health in South Asia’. The report details how persisting with policies currently being implemented (largely since 2018) will yield results but not to the desired level. Highlights of the Report: Six large airsheds exist […]
Open Network For Digital Commerce : Updates
Open Network For Digital Commerce : Updates Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) will charge a “small fee” from platforms that will contribute towards “maintenance and development” of the network. The network will seek to reduce the compulsory commissions charged from sellers and logistics partners on the network by private e-commerce firms such as US-based […]
Water Worlds : Two Exoplanets
Water Worlds : Two Exoplanets A new study, a team of astronomers have found water worlds, two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star. These exoplanets are Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d, which were observed using NASA’s Hubble and retired Spitzer space telescope. It is the first-time planets are confidently identified as water worlds, a type of planet […]
Ikki Jathre : Festival Of Rice
Ikki Jathre : Festival Of Rice A Kerala-based organisation, Thanal launched the Ikki Jathre or the Festival of Rice in tribal parlance whereby 300 climate-resilient varieties of traditional rice were planted at Panavally, Wayanad. Thanal initiated the Rice Diversity Block (RDB) at Panavally under the Save Our Rice campaign in 2009, with a collection of […]
GI Status For Kerala’s Five Agricultural Products
GI Status For Kerala’s Five Agricultural Products: Five agricultural products of Kerala- Attappady Attukombu Avara, Attappady Thuvara, Onattukara Ellu, Kanthalloor-Vattavada Veluthulli, and Kodungalloor Pottuvellari have been granted Geographical Indication (GI) status. The Gamosa (traditional cloth) of Assam, Alibag White Onion from Maharashtra, Ladakh Raktsey Karpo Apricot and Tandur Redgram of Telangana also got GI tag […]
Kazind – 2022
Kazind – 2022: The 6th Edition of India – Kazakhstan joint training exercise “KAZIND-22” is being conducted at Umroi (Meghalaya). Kazind – 2022 is a joint annual training exercise with the Kazakhstan Army and was instituted in 2016 as Exercise Prabal Dostyk, which was later upgraded to a company level exercise and renamed as Ex […]
First Global Water Survey Satellite
First Global Water Survey Satellite: NASA to conduct the first global survey of Earth’s surface waters, shedding new light on the mechanics and consequences of climate change. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, or SWOT, incorporates advanced microwave radar technology to collect high-definition measurements of oceans, lakes, reservoirs, and rivers over 90% of the […]
Sanskrit Problem In Panini’s ‘Ashtadhyayi’ Solved
Sanskrit Problem In Panini’s ‘Ashtadhyayi’: A grammatical problem that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th Century BC has finally been solved by Rishi Rajpopat, an Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Experts are calling the discovery revolutionary, as it may allow Panini’s grammar to be taught to computers for the first time. […]
E20 Fuel : Soon To Be Launched
E-20 Fuel: Soon To Be Launched Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister has recently said that India will soon launch E-20 fuel with 20% blending of ethanol. The E20 fuel is a twenty percent blend of Ethanol and eighty percent of fossil-based fuel. The introduction of E20 fuel has the motive of reducing the reliance […]
