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What is Darknet or Dark web?

What is Darknet or Dark web?

Context: As per the recent reports, the National Testing Agency (NTA) that conducts important exams like NEET, JEE and CUET,...

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Context: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said that India’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) regime is achieving “good...

Camouflaging as a dead enzyme VEGFR1 holds key to medical solutions for colon and renal cancers

Camouflaging as a dead enzyme VEGFR1 holds key to medical solutions for colon and renal cancers

Context: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata, have decoded the molecular mechanism of VEGFR1,a...

Power Markets in India

Context: The government has allowed trading of surplus electricity generated from “linkage coal” in power markets to meet peak demand...

The Need for Resilient Infrastructure in India

Context: This past month, Delhi faced unprecedented electricity demand due to relentlessly high temperatures, leading to frequent power cuts in...

Green Metal Mystery: From Mantle to Crust

Context: Researchers at The University of Western Australia conducted an experiment explaining how volcanoes bring green metals from deep within...

Cotton

Context: Recently, the third Meeting of the Committee on Cotton Production and Consumption (COCPC) for the Cotton Season 2023-24 was...

Front-Running

Context: Quant Mutual Fund is under regulatory scrutiny for alleged front-running, while Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) banned...

4th Tranche Auction for Critical and Strategic Minerals

Context: Union Minister of Coal and Mines along with Minister of State for Coal and Mines, inaugurated the 4th tranche...

Amended Surrogacy Leave Rules for Government Employees.

Context: The Centre has notified amended rules to allow women government employees to take 180 days of maternity leave in...

Antarctic Worms: Thriving in the Cold with Bacterial Help

Context: The study, published in Science Advances, highlights the vital role of microbe-host interactions in marine ecosystems, and provides important...

RBI Revises Priority Sector Lending Norms

Context: Reserve Bank of India (RBI)  revised priority sector lending norms to promote small loans in economically disadvantaged districts with...

Cholera Vaccine Demand Outpaces Supply: WHO Report

Context: The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports nearly 200,000 cases of cholera have been reported in 24 countries this year...

Transforming Sanitation Management in India through Digital Innovation

Context: The National Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (NFSSM) Alliance has launched ‘India for the World’. It is an infographic...

Translocation of Deer to Barda Wildlife Sanctuary

Context:  As lions make Barda Wildlife Sanctuary (BWS) their second home, the Forest Department in Gujarat started translocating spotted deer...