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1) Sanjay Agarwal committee: centre has constituted a high-powered panel under the chairmanship of former agriculture secretary Sanjay Agarwal to make the minimum support price (MSP) mechanism more effective and transparent 2) Yield inversion: A yield curve illustrates the interest rates on bonds of increasing maturities. inversion happens when the yield on a longer tenureRead more

1) INS SINDHUDHVAJ: The Navy’s Kilo-class submarine, INS Sindhudhvaj, was decommissioned from service on Saturday at Visakhapatnam after 35 years in service. With this, the Navy now has 15 conventional submarines in service. It successfully undertook mating and personnel transfer with Deep Submergence Rescue Vessel and was the only submarine to be awarded Chief ofRead more

1) Cervavac: dev by Serum Institute of India (SII), it is India’s first quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV) vaccine, and intended to protect women against cervical cancer. The vaccine is based on VLP (virus like particles), similar to the hepatitis B vaccine, and provides protection by generating antibodies against the HPV virus’s L1 protein. Worldwide,Read more

1) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): It is the most powerful infrared telescope of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It is also considered a successor of the Hubble Telescope and will extend and complement its discoveries. The telescope is the result of an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and theRead more

1) World Population Prospects (WPP): The Population Division of the UN has been publishing the WPP in a biennial cycle since 1951. Each revision of the WPP provides a historical time series of population indicators starting in 1950. According to the 2022, India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country inRead more

1) Cloudbursts: are short-duration, intense rainfall events over a small area. It is a weather phenomenon with unexpected precipitation exceeding 100mm/h over a geographical region of approximately 20-30 square km. In the Indian Subcontinent, it generally occurs when a monsoon cloud drifts northwards, from the Bay of Bengal or the Arabian Sea across the plainsRead more

1) Derecho: is “a widespread, long-lived, straight-line windstorm” that is associated with a “band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms”. The name comes from the Spanish word ‘la derecha’ which means ‘straight’. Straight-line storms are those in which thunderstorm winds have no rotation unlike a tornado Being a warm-weather phenomenon, a derecho generally – notRead more

1) Verstehen: Verstehen is the interpretative theory given by Max Weber, it is the method to understand why one behaving and reacting the way they are in any situation. The word derived from the German word meaning ‘to understand’ It refers to understanding the meaning of action from the actor’s point of view. It isRead more

1) Nairobi flies: also called Kenyan flies or dragon bugs, are small, beetle-like insects that belong to two species, Paederus eximius and Paederus sabaeus. They are orange and black in colour, and thrive in areas with high rainfall, as has been witnessed in Sikkim in the past few weeks. Like most insects, the beetles areRead more

1) Large Hadron Collider: It is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It was constructed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in partnership with scientists and engineers from over 100 countries. The objective of the LHC was to help physicists test predictions of various theories of particleRead more