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RAIL INTERLOCKING SYSTEM
RAIL INTERLOCKING SYSTEM
1. Context
An electronic track management system used by the Railways has become the focus of the investigation after the multigrain crash in the Balasore District of Odish...
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12-Jun 2023
MORGAN STANLEY'S GLOBAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
MORGAN STANLEY'S GLOBAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
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Morgan Stanley’s latest forecast suggests that some of the wealthiest countries will struggle to grow in the coming months while China is ...
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12-Jun 2023
SEXUAL INTENT AND OBSCENITY
SEXUAL INTENT AND OBSCENITY
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Kerala High Court recently quashed a case filed under the POCSO Act, India’s child protection law, against a woman accused of subjecting her children to ...
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10-Jun 2023
WPI AND CPI AND REVERSE REPO RATE
WPI AND CPI AND REVERSE REPO RATE
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) left the main policy instrument, the repo rate, unchanged at 6.50 per cent for the second consecutive monetary poli...
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10-Jun 2023
MINIMUM SUPPORT PRICE(MSP) MINIMUM SUPPORT PRICE
1. Context
The Government of India has constituted a committee to look into the issues of minimum support price(MSP), Natural Farming, and Crop diversification.
2. What is...
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09-Jun 2023
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE FOR HUMANITIES AND COMMERCE
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE FOR HUMANITIES AND COMMERCE
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Keeping in line with global norms and the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the country's higher education regulator is poised to in...
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09-Jun 2023
CYCLONES EFFECT ON MONSOON
CYCLONE'S EFFECT ON MONSOON
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The impact of global warming on the monsoons are manifest in its onset, withdrawal, seasonal total rainfall, and extremes. Global warming also affects the c...
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09-Jun 2023
CYCLONE BIPARJOY
CYCLONE BIPARJOY
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A cyclonic storm, named Biparjoy, has developed in the Arabian Sea. On Thursday (June 8 2023) afternoon, it was stationed about 850 km west of Goa and 900 km southw...
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09-Jun 2023
LIMITS ON UPI TRANSACTIONS
LIMITS ON UPI TRANSACTIONS
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As transactions facilitated by the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) breach record highs, banks have opted for daily limits.
These are over and above the al...
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09-Jun 2023
NIRF UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
NIRF UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
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Recently, the Education Ministry launched the sixth edition of the NIRF in which IIT-Madras, IISc-Bangalore and IIT-Bombay have emerged as the country's top three...
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08-Jun 2023
IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL
IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL
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Western diplomats have set a deadline of later this month to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, signed under President Barack Obama and dismantled in 2018 by Presiden...
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08-Jun 2023
COTTON CULTIVATION
COTTON CULTIVATION
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The cotton crop area in the coming Kharif Season is diverted into others because of the delayed southwest monsoon turns out less than normal.
A farmer from Nimbhor...
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08-Jun 2023
LOW CARBON CITY
LOW CARBON CITY
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In 2020, cities dumped a whopping 29 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Therefore, given the significant impact that cities have on the environment,...
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08-Jun 2023
KERALA FIBRE OPTIC NETWORK PROJECT
KERALA FIBRE OPTIC NETWORK PROJECT
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The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala announced that access to the Internet would be a basic right in the State, becoming the first S...
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08-Jun 2023
FOUCAULT PENDULUM
FOUCAULT PENDULUM
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The pendulum features in Parliament's Constitutional Gallery area. It was designed and installed by the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Kolkata.
Invente...
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07-Jun 2023