Border Infrastructure Management Why in News? Recently, the Ministry of Home Affairs has approved the continuation of the Central Umbrella Scheme of “Border Infrastructure and Management” (BIM) over the 15th Finance Commission Cycle from 2021-22 to 2025-26, at a cost of Rs.13,020 crore. What does BIM Envisage? The BIM […]
SEBI Context: The stock market regulator, SEBI is trying to improve the disclosures made by new age technology companies approaching the primary market for listing. Issues: The digital companies tend to give precedence to growth over profitability and, therefore, are mostly loss-making when they approach […]
PM CARES Context: PM Cares for Children Fund has been extended till February 28, 2022. The scheme was earlier valid till December 31, 2021. About: Launched in May 2021. The scheme has been launched for support & empowerment of Covid affected children. Eligibility: All children […]
Ramanujan Prize Context: The Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians was awarded to Professor Neena Gupta, a mathematician of the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, in a virtual ceremony on 22nd February 2022. She received the award for the year 2021 for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry […]
Challenge To West – led Global Order Context: Hours before the invasion on Ukraine, the western countries had imposed a new round of sanctions against Moscow (targeting Russian individuals and banks linked to Mr. Putin’s regime), and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz suspended certification of […]
FSSAI Health Star Rating Context: Consumers will soon be able to tell whether their food packaging is harmful or healthy and nutritious. According to the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), packaged food goods will soon display a ‘health star’ as part of […]
Synthetic Biology Context: Recently, the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology released a draft foresight paper on synthetic biology. Synthetic biology has multifarious applications of energy, agriculture and Thus, there is always a perceived threat of components releasing into the open environment. Therefore, the document stresses […]
