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
Current Weekly Status: This approach records only those persons as unemployed who did not have gainful work even for an hour on any day of the week preceding the date of survey. Tight Money Policy: A Tight Money Policy or contractionary monetary policy is focused on contracting (decreasing) the money supply in an economy. ARead more
Brahmos: BrahMos is a joint venture between the Defence Research and Development Organisation of India (DRDO) and the NPOM of Russia. BrahMos is named on the rivers Brahmaputra and Moskva. It is a two-stage (solid propellant engine in the first stage and liquid ramjet in second) missile. It is a multiplatform missile i.e it canRead more
START Treaty- (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms. The treaty was signed on 31 July 1991 between the US President, George Bush and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail GorbachevRead more
Sunrise Sector: Sunrise industry is a term used for a sector that is just in its infancy but shows promise of a rapid boom. Rapid emergence of this sector may threaten traditional industry sector because of its dim long-term prospects. In Indian scenario Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, drones, geospatial systems, genomics, pharmaceuticals, space techs, clean technologiesRead more
SilverLine Project: The proposed 529.45-km rail line in Kerala will link Thiruvananthapuram in the south to Kasaragod in the north, covering 11 districts through 11 stations. Trains will be capable to run at 200km/hr. The deadline for the project, being executed by the Kerala Rail Development Corporation Limited (KRDCL), is 2025. KRDCL, or K-Rail, isRead more
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