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News: At The Oval, Australia defeated India in the World Test Championship championship game by a score of 209 runs. After New Zealand, Australia became the second team to earn the coveted Mace. India has now lost two finals in a row in the WTC. Nine teams play in the World Test Championship, a two-year …
Read MoreNews: Murali Sreeshankar, an Indian long jumper, finished third in the Paris Diamond League. On Saturday, Murali Sreeshankar placed third in the men’s long jump competition at the Paris Diamond League 2023 athletics in France with an outstanding 8.09m attempt. The Diamond League is an elite yearly international athletics series that consists of numerous track …
Read MoreNews: The Reserve Bank of India has announced four crucial measures to support 1,514 urban cooperative banks, including providing them an additional two years to reach their lending goals for priority sectors. There are four key measures: allowing UCBs to open up to 10% (a maximum of 5 branches) of the number of branches in …
Read MoreNews: Lakshadweep’s Nutri Garden initiative has become a resounding success. The Nutri Garden project is a way to grow nutrient-rich food all year long for a family by planting and harvesting it near or in residential homes. Growing nutrient-rich crops for individual or group consumption is a cost-effective strategy to advance wellbeing and well health. …
Read MoreContext: Recently, the Union Government imposed limits on stock of wheat that can be held by traders, wholesalers, retailers, big chain retailers and processors. The objective here is to stabilise the price of the essential commodity by steadying supply. What are the limits? The permissible stock that traders/ wholesalers can hold is 3,000 metric tonnes. …
Read MoreContext: Three States, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana, have deferred a proposal, approved by the Centre’s Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), to test a new kind of transgenic cotton seed that contains a gene, Cry2Ai, that purportedly makes cotton resistant to pink bollworm, a major pest. This conflict shows that a broad acceptance of genetically modified …
Read MoreNews: The inaugural National Training Conclave will be officially opened by the Prime Minister in New Delhi’s International Exhibition and Convention Centre Pragati Maidan. The National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) – ‘Mission Karmayogi’ includes the National Training Conclave. The goal is to develop the country’s infrastructure for civil servant training and to …
Read MoreNews: Following Syria’s reinstatement as a member of the Arab League, questions about the trafficking in Captagon pills have once more taken centre stage. A highly addictive substance of the amphetamine class known as “captagon pill” is mostly made in Syria. Fenetylline, a synthetic medication from the same phenethylamine family as amphetamine, was a component …
Read MoreNews: To address the issue of unbalanced nutrient use, the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) has advised the Centre to include urea in the nutrient-based subsidy (NBS) scheme. The Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilisers’ Department of Fertilisers is implementing a Nutrient Based Subsidy Scheme in 2010. Each grade of subsidised phosphoric and potassium …
Read MoreNews: In a recent successful operation dubbed “Amanat,” the Railway Protection Force (RPF) was able to recover lost or abandoned bags as well as priceless items. The Railway Protection Force has implemented a fresh idea as part of Operation Amanat to make it simpler for travellers to recover their misplaced luggage. It aids in finding …
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