Polity

1.Preventive detention. IN NEWS: The Supreme Court held in a judgment recently that Preventive detention could be used only to prevent public disorder. KEY POINTS: It is also said that the State should not arbitrarily resort to “preventive detention” to deal with all and sundry “law and order” problems, which could be dealt with by […]

1. Creamy Layer: OBC IN NEWS: Recently, some MPs have raised the issue of defining Creamy Layer in the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament. Further, the Justice Rohini committee is considering the sub-categorization of OBC quota and if any particular community or group of communities are benefiting most from the OBC quota and how to […]

1. Samagra Shiksha. IN NEWS: Scheme for promoting education in rural areas. KEY POINTS: The Government of India launched Samagra Shiksha-an Integrated Scheme for school education, w.e.f. 2018-19, as an overarching programme for the school education sector extending from pre-school to class XII. It aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education at all levels […]

1. Raja Mircha. IN NEWS: In a major boost to exports of Geographical Indications (GI) products from the north-eastern region, a consignment of ‘Raja Mircha’ also referred as king chilli from Nagaland was exported to London via Guwahati by air for the first time. KEY POINTS: The consignment of King Chilli also considered as world’s […]

1. Dholavira. IN NEWS: India gets its 40th World Heritage Site. KEY POINTS: Dholavira, the Harappan City in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. India submitted the nomination dossier for Dholavira: A Harappan City to the World Heritage Centre in January, 2020. The site was on the UNESCO’s tentative list […]

1. Kandla SEZ. IN NEWS: Kandla becomes first Green SEZ Achieves CII’s IGBC ( Indian Green Building Council) Green Cities Platinum Rating IGBC Green Platinum rating awarded to Kandla SEZ KEY POINTS: KASEZ is the First Green SEZ to achieve the IGBC Green Cities Platinum Rating for Existing Cities. The plaque was presented to KASEZ […]

1. NESAC. IN NEWS: NESAC (North Eastern Space Applications Centre) Society Meeting was recently held at NESAC, Shillong, Meghalaya. Union Home Minister is the President of the NESAC Society and the Chairman of the North Eastern Council (NEC). KEY POINTS: NESAC has released North Eastern Spatial Data Repository (NeSDR) with about 950 datasets. These datasets […]

1. AKAMAI. IN NEWS: Global internet infrastructure company Akamai suffered an outage that lasted over an hour, taking down several online applications across India and overseas. KEY POINTS: Akamai is a global content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services platform that is rented by online content and commerce services apps. Akamai faced a disruption on […]

1. Akash-NG. IN NEWS: Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight-tested the New Generation Akash Missile (Akash-NG), a surface-to-air Missile from Integrated Test Range (ITR) off the coast of Odisha on July 21, 2021. KEY POINTS: The flight trial was conducted from a land-based platform with all weapon system elements such as Multifunction Radar, […]

1. Nano urea. IN NEWS: Government making efforts to enhance the production of nano urea. KEY POINTS: IFFCO has developed nanotechnology based Nano Urea (Liquid) fertilizer that aims to address the imbalanced and excessive use of conventional Urea. It further aims to improve crop productively, soil health and nutritional quality of the produce. Government is […]