Recent context India’s Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 scripted history by successfully landing on the lunar surface on 23rd August 2023, at …
Are Freebies a Gateway to Financial Disaster?
Recent context Political parties, regardless of their ideological orientation, frequently employ the strategy of offering free or significantly subsidised products …
Chandrayaan-3 Mission
Recent context Chandrayaan-3 is India’s upcoming lunar mission, which aims to be the world’s first mission to soft-land near the …
Fortification of Rice
Recent context According to the recent findings, the Union government’s plan to distribute subsidised iron-fortified rice may do more harm …
Moon may get its own time zone
Why in news? Since the dawn of the Space Age, the answer has been: It depends. For decades, lunar missions …
RBI’s report on state govt Budgets
Recent context On Monday, the Reserve Bank of India released its report on state government budgets for 2022-23. The report …
Joshimath Land Subsidence
Preliminary Examination: Indian and World Geography-Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the World, Economic and Social Development-Sustainable Development, Poverty, …
US-Canada Great Lakes turning acidic
Recent context Recently, it has been observed that by 2100, even the Great Lakes — Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and …
The Biodiversity Commitment
Prelims: Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal Protocol, Nagoya Protocol, Cartegena Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, UNFCCC, Aichi Targets Mains (GS …
Base Editing
Recent context For the first time, a new gene editing technology called base editing was used to modify immune cells …