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POCSO: Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences Act was enacted to protect the children from offences of sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography with due regard for safeguarding the interest and well-being of children and was amended in August 2019 to provide more stringent punishment, including the death penalty, for sexual crimes against children. POCSORead more

MSP: The MSP is the rate at which the government purchases crops from farmers, and is based on a calculation of at least one-and-a-half times the cost of production incurred by the farmers. The Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP) recommends MSPs for 22 mandated crops and fair and remunerative price (FRP) for sugarcane.Read more

JCPOA: The JCPOA was the result of prolonged negotiations from 2013 and 2015 between Iran and P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States). The JCPOA obliged Iran to accept constraints on its uranium enrichment program verified by an intrusive inspection regime in return for a partial lifting of economic sanctions. GalliumRead more

Chilka Lake: The Odisha government has proposed to ban movement of mechanised fishing boats in the Mangalajodi area of the Chilika lake, an important haunt of migratory birds, to provide the winged guests an undisturbed ecosystem for six months every year. Mangalajodi is recognised as globally important for the conservation of birds. Migratory birds arriveRead more

Convention on Migratory Species: Bonn Convention is a name of the international treaty on the conservation of migratory species of wild animals, that was adopted in Bonn, Germany in 1979. It came into force in 1983. The convention is simply known as Bonn Convention or CMS (Convention on Conservation of Migratory Species) which is anRead more

Inter-Basin water transfer: In this process where surplus water from a river basin is transferred to another river basin which is deficient in water. Interlinking of rivers is done to transfer water from one basin to another. In Indian context if the excess water can be diverted from the Plains to the Peninsula and centralRead more

Opec+: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a permanent, intergovernmental organization, created at the Baghdad Conference in 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela and aims to manage the supply of oil in an effort to set the price of oil in the world market, in order to avoid fluctuationsRead more

Five Eye: The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an alliance of intelligence agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. It is the most well known of all espionage alliances in the world. The origins of the Five Eyes can be traced back to the end of World War II whenRead more

Carrying Capacity: In ecological terms, the carrying capacity of an ecosystem is the size of the population that can be supported indefinitely upon the available resources and services of that ecosystem. Disease, competition, predator-prey interaction, resource use and the number of populations in an ecosystem all affect carrying capacity. Carrying capacity of an ecosystem asRead more

Female labour force participation ratio: The participation of women in the workforce in India has dropped from 32% working or looking for work in 2005, to 21% in 2019. India’s female labour force participation (FLFP) rate is the lowest among the BRICS countries and is also lower than some of its neighbours in South AsiaRead more