Purchasing Manager’s Index PMI is an indicator of business activity- in the manufacturing and services sectors. Calculation of PMI ✓ It is a survey-based measure that asks the respondents about changes in their perception about key business variables as compared with the previous month. ...

Vidyanjali portal ✓- portal to facilitate private donor's, corporate social responsibility contribution and volunteering activities. ✓ The Vidyanjali portal will enable community/volunteers to contribute by connecting directly with the government and government-aided schools of their choice. ...

Nai Roshni Scheme • By Ministry of Minority Affairs. Objective: • Leadership Development of Minority Women. • To empower and instil confidence among minority women by providing knowledge, tools and techniques for interacting with Government systems, Banks and other institutions at all ...

Accredited investors • Accredited investors, also called qualified investors or professional investors, are those who have an understanding of various financial products and the risks and returns associated with them. • They are able to make informed decisions regarding their investments and ...

FDI • FDI’ or ‘Foreign Direct Investment’ means investment through capital instruments by a person resident outside India • in an unlisted Indian company OR in ten per cent or more of the post-issue paid-up equity capital on a fully diluted basis of a listed Indian company. • In India, ...

Promissory note • A promissory note is an instrument in writing (not being a bank note or a currency note) containing an unconditional undertaking, signed by the maker, to pay a certain sum of money only to or to the order of a certain person or to the bearer of the instrument. • In a ...

Commercial Paper • Commercial paper is an unsecured, short period debt tool issued by a company, usually for the finance and inventories and temporary liabilities. • The maturities in this paper do not last longer than 270 days. • These papers are like a promissory note allotted at a huge ...

Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme (DDRS) • The umbrella Central Sector Scheme called the “Scheme to Promote Voluntary Action for Persons with Disabilities” was revised in 2003 and was renamed as the DDRS. • The approach of this Scheme is to provide financial assistance to voluntary ...

Financial Market • Financial market is the market that facilitates transfer of funds between investors/ lenders and borrowers/ users. • Financial market may be defined as ‘a transmission mechanism between investors (or lenders) and the borrowers (or users) through which transfer of funds is ...

■  Tracking animals through e-DNA- ✓According to some studies, DNA floating in the air (e-DNA) can boost biodiversity conservation efforts across the world. ● About: ✓Researchers have independently shown that environmental DNA (e-DNA) have the potential to identify and monitor ...