Attorney-General of India Shri K.K. Venugopal on November 2, 2020 declined consent to initiate contempt proceedings against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy and his Principal Adviser Ajeya Kallam for directly writing a letter to the Chief Justice of Read More …
Category: PRELIMS TERMINOLOGY
16 Psyche-An asteroid worth $10,000 quadrillion!
According to a recent study, asteroid 16 Psyche, which orbits between Mars and Jupiter, could be made entirely of metal and is worth an estimated $10,000 quadrillion — more than the entire economy of Earth. New images from NASA’s Hubble Read More …
What is a star campaigner?
On 30 October, 2020, the Election Commission of India revoked the star campaigner status of the former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shri Kamal Nath on the grounds of repeated violations of model code during the by-polls campaigning in the Read More …
Supreme Court passes ‘Mirror Order’
The Supreme Court bench comprising Justice UU Lalit, Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice Hemant Gupta, applied the principle of “mirror order” in a child custody case where one of the estranged parents is living abroad, in Kenya. The judgment was Read More …
Khadi Oaxaca and Mann ki Baat
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his Mann ki Baat address on October 25, 2020, asked people to go vocal for local while advocating the khadi – the handwoven cloth popularised by Mahatma Gandhi. PM Modi also made a reference to Read More …
Scientists measured the shortest unit of time ever
Scientists have measured the shortest unit of time ever: the time it takes a light particle to cross a hydrogen molecule. According to a team of scientists from Germany, that time, for the record, is 247 zeptoseconds. A zeptosecond is a trillionth Read More …
What is a Blue Dot Network?
Recently a bipartisan group of US Senators wrote to India’s Ambassador to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu backing India’s decision to invite Australia to the annual Malabar naval exercise. The letter also asks India to join the Blue Dot Read More …
Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation System and NGT
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has held that environmental clearance (EC) to Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) was granted ex post facto, after completion of substantial work, by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) “in violation of law”. Read More …
Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center
To address societal challenges through digital innovation, NITI Aayog on October 19, 2020 announced the establishment of a Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) with Amazon Web Services (AWS)—the first of its kind in India. About Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Read More …
All about ‘Chapter proceedings’
In October 2020, the Mumbai police initiated “chapter proceedings” against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami. Is this a legal term? It is not a legal term. Since all the sections related to preventing of crime fall under a single chapter, Read More …
‘India will be Trans Fat free by 2022’
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh on October 16, 2020 said that the aim of the government is to make India Trans Fat free by 2022, a year ahead of target set by World Health Organization . The Minister said, Trans Read More …
India designated as the Vice-Chair of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)
India has been designated the Vice-Chair of Good Laboratory Practice, GLP Working Group of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Good Laboratory Practice Good Laboratory Practice is a quality system, which has been evolved by OECD to ensure Read More …
SILAM and ENFUSER for air quality
Ministry of Earth Sciences has recently improved the Air Quality forecast model ‘System for Integrated modelling of Atmospheric composition (SILAM) for India by implementing global emission inventories CAMS-GLOB v2.1 supplemented with EDGAR v4.3.2 for coarse and mineral-fine anthropogenic particulate matter at 10km Read More …
Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna-2 Launched
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan on October 14, 2020 launched the second phase of “Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna” for the underprivileged Thalassemic patients. Launched in 2017, this scheme is a Coal India CSR funded Hematopoietic Read More …
What is eVIN network?
According to the Union Health Ministry, the eVIN network, which can track the latest vaccine stock position; temperature at storage facility; geo-tag health centres; and maintain facility-level dashboard, is being repurposed for the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Electronic Read More …