- Polity: secularism: Karnataka High Court hijab verdict (2022): Q1) wearing the hijab is part of essential religious practice in Islamic faith under Article 25 of the Constitution? Karnataka HC Ruled: NO! wearing of the hijab by Muslim women [...]
- EcoPill3A-BoP/Intl-Trade: $5 bn dollar-rupee swap. E.g. Axis bank will buy US Dollars from the RBI (e.g. at $1:75) & simultenously Axis agrees to RE-SELL those dollars back to RBI (e.g. at $1:76) at the end of the Swap [...]
- EcoPill1A1-Digital Payments: NPCi’s new unique payments interface (UPI) technology- for developing mobile apps for money transfer. Even if there is a non-smart phone (Featurephone- with number pads) money can be sent by USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) code [...]
- ISRO’s 1st launch of 2022: EOS-04 satellite using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C52) from Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. 1,700kg EOS-04 satellite to the placed in sun-synchronous polar orbit, some 529 km from the Earth's surface. sun-synchronous polar orbit is [...]
Polity: Rights issue /freedom of speech/ movie making: defence ministry refused a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for a movie showing “GAY relationship between an Army officer and a local Kashmiri boy”. Defence ministry can do so for protecting the [...]
- History/Culture: 10th century Vedic philosopher and social reformer Ramanujacharya. Born in 1017 in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu. February 2, 2022: 1,000th birth anniversary of Ramanujacharya. Statue of Equality near Hyderabad. Made up of ‘panchaloha’, a combination of five [...]
Polity: secularism/Rights issues- Freedom of religion, dress and beard: Article 25(1) of the Constitution guarantees the “freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practise and propagate religion”. It is also a negative liberty — means that the [...]
Science Corona: World Health Organisation (WHO) had designated Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) as a “variant of concern (VOC)”. First reported from South Africa. Also found in Israel and Belgium. Botswana and Hong Kong. दक्षिण अफ़्रीका से पाया गया कोरोना वायरस [...]
Polity: 6-Rights issues/Edu/NE/Regionalism: MEGHALAYA CHIEF Minister Conrad Sangma exhorted the state’s youth to learn Hindi to be able to “cross the language barrier” and get employed in other parts of India. What do the youth need? Pride? Self-esteem? For [...]
Defense: Award: COLONEL BIKUMALLA Santosh Babu was on awarded the Maha Vir Chakra – the country’s second-highest military gallantry honour – posthumously for leading the fight against Chinese soldiers during a clash between the two armies on June 15, [...]
Ethics-LATERAL Entry. 1) present in Union Govt. 2) 2021-Nov: W.Bengal State govt seeks to rope in consultants via lateral entry for 50 posts in various departments through lateral entry. The age limit is 35-70 years, contractual salary ₹1.5 lakh-2 [...]
EcoPill1A1-Digital Payments: Collins Dictionary’s “Word of the Year” for 2021 is “NFT” — an abbreviation that stands for “non-fungible token” An NFT, according to Collins Dictionary, is a “unique digital certificate, registered in a blockchain, that is used to [...]
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