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News: Recently, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) approved the capital purchase of military equipment that was developed domestically and cost Rs 70,584 crore. The DAC is the defence ministry’s highest decision-making body for procurement. The goal is to ensure prompt procurement of the armed services’ authorised requirements. In 2001, following the Kargil War, it was …
Read MoreNews: A total of 40 export infrastructure projects have had funding approved for between 2019 and 2023 under the Trade Infrastructure for Export Scheme (TIES), the Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry informed the legislature. Trade Infrastructure for Export Scheme (TIES): This programme took the position of Aid to States …
Read MoreNews: The Indian Army has placed its first order with an Indian start-up company called Hyper Stealth Technologies Private Limited for Integrated Mobile Camouflage Systems (IMCS) for Mechanized Forces. This is the Indian Army’s first-ever purchase order under the Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) programme. Armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) can blend in with their surrounding …
Read MoreWhat is the backdrop to the Hindi imposition row? The origin of the linguistic row goes back to the debate on official languages. In the Constituent Assembly, Hindi was voted as the official language by a single vote. However, it added that English would continue to be used as an associate official language for 15 …
Read MoreContext: Recently a Bench led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud referred petitions to legally recognise same-sex marriages to a Constitution Bench of five judges of the Supreme Court. The Court has listed the case for final arguments on April 18. What is the case? The Court has been hearing multiple petitioners’ requests for …
Read MoreContext: India mooted an action plan to mark 2023 as the year of tourism development in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) region at the tourism ministers’ conference in Varanasi. India has assumed the SCO chairship for 2023. What is SCO? The SCO is an intergovernmental organisation founded on June 15, 2001 in Shanghai, China. It …
Read MoreContext: Between 2017-18 and 2021-22, India’s Sugar export soared from $810.9 million to $4.6 billion, and could cross $5.5 billion — or Rs 45,000 crore — in the fiscal year ending March 31. Raw and White Sugar Raw sugar is what mills produce after the first crystallisation of juice obtained from crushing of cane. This …
Read MoreWhen does conviction attract disqualification? Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act (RPA), 1951, contains provisions aimed at decriminalising electoral politics. There are two categories of criminal cases that attract disqualification upon conviction. In the first category are offences that entail disqualification for a period of six years upon any conviction. Major IPC …
Read MoreContext: Recently the mass nesting of Olive Ridley sea turtles, an annual phenomenon called ‘arribada’, began in Odisha’s Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary. As many as 503,719 turtles laid eggs in the last four days on the tranquil beaches of the sanctuary in Kendrapara district, the world’s largest rookery of sea turtles. More on the news The …
Read MoreNews: As part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, Hyderabad-based Svaya Robotics has created India’s first indigenous quadruped (four-legged) robot and exoskeleton for the defence industry. As technology demonstrators with their design inputs, the indigenous robots and wearable exoskeletons were created by Hyderabad-based Svaya Robotics in partnership with the DRDO Labs, Research and Development Establishment (R&DE), …
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