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Context: The longest day of the year, for anyone living north of the Equator, is June 21. The day is referred to as the summer solstice, and it occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer, or more specifically right over 23.5 degrees north latitude. Why do we have the summer solstice? …
Read MoreContext: The headline retail inflation rate fell to a 25-month low in May and the wholesale price index (WPI) is now deep in the red, but groceries and household items continue to appear expensive to most Indians. Why? While some of the decline in year-on-year inflation rates is statistical, prices of cereals, milk, spices, prepared …
Read MoreNews: The IIAS Annual Conference will take place in 2025, as India recently decided. This demonstrates India’s dedication to multilateralism, ethical leadership, and administrative changes. A global federation dedicated to improving administrative sciences, the IIAS (International Institute of Administrative Sciences) was founded in 1930. Its member states, national sections, and university research institutions all work …
Read MoreNews: Existing Mutual Fund ‘Execution-Only Platforms’ (EOPs) were ordered by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to register within three months. The execution only platform (EOP) is a digital or online platform that makes it easier for people to subscribe to, redeem from, and switch between direct mutual fund plans and schemes. In …
Read MoreNews: ‘Phosphorous’ is found on Saturn’s moon Enceladus by NASA’s Cassini mission. It is the brightest of all Saturn’s moons and the second closest of its major regular moons. It was named after one of the Giants (Gigantes) from Greek mythology and found in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. It is a dynamic …
Read MoreNews: Seventy-two percent of the almost 18,000 first-time job searchers who were skilled under the Skill Impact Bond (SIB) initiative were women. India’s first development impact bond for skilling and employment is called the Skill Impact Bond (SIB). by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), with the assistance of international partners The goal is to …
Read MoreNews: A draught set of instructions outlining the effectiveness information and trial results needed for the registration of several categories of bio-stimulants under Schedule VI of the FCO Amendment order 2021 has been released by the Agriculture Ministry. In contrast to pesticides and plant growth regulators covered by the Insecticides Act of 1968, bio-stimulants are …
Read MoreContext: Following reports that CoWIN data had been accessed by a Telegram bot, the Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the nodal cyber security agency, had reviewed the alleged breach and has found that the CoWIN portal was not “directly breached”. The data – …
Read MoreContext: Recently Global Slavery Index 2023 was published. According to it, on any given day in 2021, as many as 50 million people were living in “modern slavery”. Among these 50 million, 28 million suffer from forced labour and 22 million from forced marriages. Of these 50 million, 12 million are children. What is modern …
Read MoreNews: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has approved Cholederm, an innovative wound care product created by the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), as a Class D medical device. Cholederm is a tissue-engineered, membrane-based scaffold used to treat wounds that is made from the extracellular matrix of decellularized pig …
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