W African nations rename common currency, sever its links to France
Eight West African countries Saturday agreed to change the name of their common currency to Eco and severed the CFA...
Month: September 2020
Project Dolphin
The Prime Minister announced the government’s plan to launch a Project Dolphin in his recent Independence Day Speech (15th August 2020). The proposed...
What is zero budget natural farming?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman thrust zero budget farming into the spotlight in the first Budget speech of the 17th Lok...
CONSERVATION ASSURED | TIGER STANDARDS (CA|TS) FRAMEWORK
India’s National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), of the Ministry of Environment announced the adoption of the Conservation Assured | Tiger...
Moplah Uprising
Recently, the Indian Council for Historical research (ICHR) has constituted a three-member committee to review the entries in the book Dictionary of Martyrs:...
Dollar Rupee Swap Facility
What is Dollar Rupee Swap Facility? The Dollar-Rupee swap facility is a liquidity facility by the RBI where the central...
The PM’s Economic Advisory Council — role and evolution
The government has reconstituted the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (PMEAC or EAC-PM). Bibek Debroy, who was appointed...
Project REPLAN
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) launched a first ever ‘Terracotta Grinder’ in Varanasi. About the grinder The grinder was...
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
International organisations are an important part of the UPSC syllabus. In this article, you can read about the World Wide...
BRUIE The Robot Will Soon Hunt For Aliens On Jupiter’s Moons
NASA’s engineers developed a new autonomous robot named BRUIE that it plans to send into outer space to search for signs of...
Scientific Social Responsibility
Scientists and researchers have been doing their best in the fight against Covid-19 by coming up with solutions to the...
Param Shivay: IIT-BHU’s latest and fastest French-made supercomputer
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently inaugurated the first of several supercomputers to be installed across India as part of a...
Chile-Madrid Time for Action Declartion
Chile-Madrid Time for Action declaration has happened at the 25th edition of the Conference of the Parties (COP25) to the...
The Archaeological Survey of India
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an attached office in the Ministry of Culture. It was set up in...
Ocean Deoxygenation
Ocean deoxygenation is one of the most pernicious, yet under-reported side-effects of human-induced climate change. The primary causes of deoxygenation...