Tissue culture plants: Plant tissue culture is defined as culturing plant seeds, organs, explants, tissues, cells, or protoplasts on a chemically defined synthetic nutrient media under sterile and controlled conditions of light, temperature, and humidity. Applications of Plant Tissue Culture: micropropagation using meristem and shoot culture to produce large numbers of identical individuals screening programmesRead more
The National Film Heritage Mission: it is an important initiative to preserve and conserve the country’s cinematic heritage. It was launched by the Information & Broadcasting Ministry in the year 2016. National Film Archive of India (NFAI) is the nodal organization for the implementation of this project. Snow leopard: Found in Cold High Mountains inRead more
National Family Health Survey: The Total Fertility Rate (TFR), the average number of children per woman, has further declined from 2.2 to 2.0 at the national level between National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 4 and 5. The NFHS is a large-scale, multi-round survey conducted in a representative sample of households throughout India. The IIPS isRead more
CERT-IN: CERT-IN is an office within the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It is the nodal agency to deal with cyber security threats like hacking and phishing. It strengthens the security-related defense of the Indian Internet domain. It was formed in 2004 by the Government of India under the Information Technology Act, 2000 SectionRead more
Civil Registration System (CRS): CRS 202o was realeased a month before schedule The CRS collates data on all births and deaths registered with local authorities across India. The CRS report is released by the Registrar-General of India. It releases its report around 18 months after a year ends. Office of Profit: The office of profit hasRead more
Trade deficit: A trade deficit is an amount by which the cost of a country’s imports exceeds its exports. The trade deficit in goods shows a rise of demand in the economy. It is a part of the Current Account Deficit. Operation Satark: Railway Protection Force has recently started “Operation Satark” with an objective ofRead more
National Open Access Registry: NOAR is a centralized online platform through which the short-term open access to the inter-state transmission system is being managed in India. It is an integrated platform accessible to all stakeholders in the power sector, including open access customers (both sellers and buyers), power traders, power exchanges, National/Regional/State LDCs and others.Read more
AQI: Launched in 2014 with outline ‘One Number – One Color -One Description’ for the common man to judge the air quality within his vicinity. The measurement of air quality is based on eight pollutants, namely: Particulate Matter (PM10), Particulate Matter (PM2.5), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Ozone (O3), Ammonia (NH3),Read more
River Ranching: River Ranching is a form of aquaculture in which a population of a fish species (such as salmon) is held in captivity for the first stage of their lives. They are then released, and later harvested as adults when they return from the sea to their freshwater birthplace to spawn. In India RiverRead more
Splinternet: The splinternet (also referred to as cyber-balkanization or internet balkanization) is a characterization of the Internet as splintering and dividing due to various factors, such as technology, commerce, politics, nationalism, religion, and divergent national interests. In this internet is controlled by autonomous political blocs or any other controlling power—such as tech or e-commerce companies,Read more
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