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Important Facts for Prelims (2 August 2018)

Agricultural Scientists' Recruitment Board It was set up by the government in November 1973, as an independent recruitment agency following the...

02 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Cyber Security Service Providers Invest in Technologies to Prevent Attacks

With cyber threats rising rapidly, there is an increase in demand for cybersecurity service providers and their products. The security service...

02 Aug 2018 News Analysis

RBI Raises Interest Rates by 25 bps

The Reserve Bank of India in its third bi-monthly policy raised the repo rate by 0.25 per cent to 6.5 per cent because of inflationary...

02 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Human DNA Profiling

The outrage over rapes and violent attacks on women and children has renewed the call for a sex offenders’ registry or a DNA database of those...

01 Aug 2018 News Editorials

Draft National E-commerce Policy

A task force headed by commerce secretary has submitted its recommendations on a draft national e-commerce policy.  India’s e-commerce...

01 Aug 2018 News Analysis

BEE Introduces State Energy Efficiency Index

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has come up with the country’s first state energy efficiency preparedness index. The index assumes...

01 Aug 2018 News Analysis

NBRC Researchers Decipher the Cause of Microcephaly

National Brain Research Centre-led team of researchers has successfully identified the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which Zika virus causes...

01 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Centre Imposes 25% Safeguard Duty on Import of Solar Cells

The Centre has put a safeguard duty of 25% on import of solar cells from China and Malaysia from July 30, 2018. The safeguard duty on imports...

01 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Trump-Putin Summit

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in the Finnish capital Helsinki in a summit that was closely watched across the...

01 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Snakebites: A Burden for India

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for a global effort against ‘envenoming’. In May, the WHO’s 71st World Health...

01 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Panel to Examine OBC Sub-Categorisation Seeks Third Extension

The commission set up to examine the sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBC) has sought a third extension till November 2018 for...

01 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Study on District Mineral Foundations

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has released its report ‘People First: District Mineral Foundation (DMF) Status Report, 2018’ on...

01 Aug 2018 News Analysis

On Longevity and Related Concerns

Life Expectancy at Birth is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current...

31 Jul 2018 News Editorials

Important Facts for Prelims (31st July 2018)

Parkinson's disease Parkinson’s disease is a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder that affects the body’s motor system, often...

31 Jul 2018 News Analysis

DAC Approves Strategic Partnership Guidelines

In a step to boost private sector participation in domestic defence manufacturing, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) approved the implementation...

31 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Women Rice Farmers to be Trained in the Philippines

Eight women farmers have been selected to visit the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines to learn about new rice farming...

31 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Vengeance or Justice?

The article “Climb the escalator of reason” was published in The Hindu on 30-07-2018. Our editorial is a further extension and...

30 Jul 2018 News Editorials

Important Facts for Prelims (30th July 2018)

National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System-II (NASAMS-II) It is an advanced air defence system jointly developed by United States (US) and...

30 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Arsenic Accumulation in Paddy Plants

A recent publication by the Jadavpur University, has revealed rise in arsenic contamination of paddy plants from ground water in West Bengal. It...

30 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Govt. Plans ‘ISRO-like’ Ocean Mission

Recently, the Union Earth Sciences Ministry has unveiled a blueprint of the ‘Deep Ocean Mission (DOM)’ to explore the deep recesses of...

30 Jul 2018 News Analysis