Chinese Involvement in Myanmar ✓Large Chinese infrastructure and mining projects in Myanmar have come up since the early 1990s, with scant regard for environmental degradation and displacement. ✓China has increased its economic profile in the country in recent times pushing for a special ...

National Sports Development Fund’ (NSDF): ✓DoS has also developed a dedicated interactive website nsdf.yas.gov.in for ‘National Sports Development Fund’ (NSDF). ✓This Fund is based on Corporate Social Responsibility contributions from Central & State Governments, Public Sector ...

SAATHI for power loom ✓Ministries of Power and Textiles have now joined hands under a new initiative SAATHI (Sustainable and Accelerated Adoption of efficient Textile technologies to Help small Industries). Coverage  ✓The SAATHI initiative of the Government will be jointly ...

■ Four new corals recorded from Indian waters- ✓Scientists have recorded four species of corals for the first time from Indian waters. ✓These new species of azooxanthellate corals were found from the waters off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. ●  What are Azooxanthellate Corals? ...

Digital India Bhashini: Digital India BHASHINI is India’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) led language translation platform. A Bhashini Platform will make Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources available to MSME (Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises), ...

New species of bamboo-dwelling bat found in Meghalaya- ✅Scientists have discovered a new species of bamboo-dwelling bat in Ri Bhoi district of Meghalaya. ✅The species, found near the forested patch of Nongkhyllem Wildlife Sanctuary, has been named  Glischropus meghalayanus ● About ...

National Mission for Manuscripts ✓The National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) was launched in February 2003 by the Government of India with the mandate of documenting, conserving and disseminating the knowledge preserved in the manuscripts. ✓A manuscript is a handwritten composition on paper, ...

Negative Yield Bonds: ✓Are debt instruments that offer to pay the investor a maturity amount lower than the purchase price of the bond. ✓These are generally issued by central banks or governments, and investors pay interest to the borrower to keep their money with them. Reasons behind ...

Senior Citizen Savings Account ✓ the 5-year ​​Senior Citizen Savings Account can be opened by anyone who is over 60 years to age. ✓It carries an interest of 7.4% per annum payable quarterly and qualifies for Section 80C tax benefit. ✓These time-tested and safe modes of investments don’t ...

The Teesta Dispute ✓Historically, the root of the disputes over the river can be located in the report of the Boundary Commission (BC), which was set up in 1947 under Sir Cyril Radcliffe to demarcate the boundary line between West Bengal (India) and East Bengal (Pakistan, then Bangladesh from ...

ATMA Scheme or Agricultural Technology Management Agency scheme ✓is a centrally sponsored scheme that is being implemented since 2005. It is also known as Support to State Extension Programs for Extension Reforms. ✓The scheme looks to set up a decentralized agriculture extension system. ...

Windfall tax ✓A windfall tax is a higher tax rate on sudden big profits levied on a particular company or industry. ✓Domestic producers sell crude oil to domestic refineries at international parity prices, thus making windfall gains. ✓ONGC reported bumper profits in the March quarter ...