Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) : Extension The Union government is looking at a possible extension of the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) amid global economic uncertainty and expectation of slower domestic growth next fiscal. Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) was launched by the Government of India in 2020 as a special […]
Tag: 7th Mar 2023
Nano Liquid DAP Fertilizer : Approved
Nano Liquid DAP Fertilizer : Approved The Government recently approved the launch of nano liquid DAP (di-ammonium phosphate) fertilizer in India and has been notified in the Fertilizer Control Order (FCO). Nano liquid DAP fertilizer is a concentrated phosphate-based fertilizer. It provides phosphorous nutrition throughout the crop growth and development cycle. Nano-DAP is jointly manufactured […]
United Nations High Seas Treaty
United Nations High Seas Treaty: After more than a decade of negotiations, the countries of the United Nations have recently agreed to the High Seas Treaty. UN High Seas Treaty is the first-ever treaty to protect the world’s oceans that lie outside national boundaries. It is also known as the ‘Paris Agreement for the Ocean.’ […]
Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman 2023
Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman 2023: The President of India presented the Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman 2023 and graced the launch of Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch The Rain -2023 in New Delhi. Catch the Rain is a Jan Andolan campaign to encourage all stakeholders to create rainwater harvesting structures (RWHS). Tag line: Catch the rain, where […]
Megha-Tropiques-1
Megha-Tropiques-1: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be undertaking a challenging experiment of a controlled re-entry of the decommissioned Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT1) satellite on March 7, 2023. Megha-Tropiques is an Indo-French Joint Satellite Mission for studying the water cycle and energy exchanges in the tropics. Objective is to understand the life cycle of convective systems […]
ILO-UNICEF Report
ILO-UNICEF Report: ILO (International Labour Organization) and UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) has released a report titled- “More than a billion reasons: The urgent need to build universal social protection for children”, which states that just 1 in 4 children are shielded by social protection, leaving others exposed to poverty, exclusion and multidimensional deprivations. Findings […]
International Maritime Exercise/ Cutlass Express 2023
International Maritime Exercise/ Cutlass Express 2023: INS Trikand is participating in the International Maritime Exercise/ Cutlass Express 2023 (IMX/CE-23) being held in the Gulf region from 26 Feb to 16 Mar 23. INS Trikand: It is a frontline frigate equipped with a versatile range of weapons and sensors. The ship is a part of the […]
Great Seahorse Migration
Great Seahorse Migration: A study indicated that extensive fishing off the Coromandel coast could be forcing the great seahorse to migrate towards Odisha. Sea horses are tiny fish that are named for the shape of their head, which looks like the head of a tiny horse. They are classified as fish, in the genus Hippocampus. […]
Bamboo Crash Barrier
Bamboo Crash Barrier: The world’s first 200-meter-long Bamboo Crash Barrier, named Bahu Balli, has been installed on the Vani-Warora Highway in Maharashtra, India. The bamboo species used is Bambusa Balcoa, which has been treated with creosote oil and coated with recycled High-Density Poly Ethylene (HDPE). It Will create more avenues for the bamboo industry […]
Organoid Intelligence
Organoid Intelligence: Scientists at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) recently outlined a potentially revolutionary new area of research called “organoid intelligence”, which aims to create “biocomputers”. Bio computers are computing devices that use biological components such as DNA, proteins, and cells to perform computational tasks. Biocomputers use the properties of biological systems to perform computations, such […]
