Context: The Bihar chief minister wants the central government to reconsider its unwillingness to conduct a caste-based census, believing that such information would enable his government to devise more targeted policies for the most vulnerable among the OBCs. The Government of India, on the other […]
What exactly is a PMI: The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) is a measure of business activity in the manufacturing and service industries. It is a survey-based measure that inquires about changes in respondents’ perceptions of important business variables from the previous month. It is calculated […]
About the NCPCR: The Commission for the Protection of Child Rights Act of 2005 was established in March 2007. It operates under the Ministry of Women and Child Development’s administrative supervision. A child is described as a person who is between the ages of 0 […]
About the NSG: The National Security Guard (NSG) is a counter-terrorism squad established in 1986 by an act of Parliament known as the ‘National Security Guard Act, 1986.’ The idea for such a force arose in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star (an Indian military […]
Context: It’s been a year since the armed forces of China and India clashed in Galwan. Background: India and China share a 3,440-kilometer-long (2,100-mile-long) border with overlapping territory claims. At three sites along the Line of Actual Control in 2020, Indian and Chinese soldiers were […]
Prelims Specific Topic The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has authorized a test kit to detect the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus’s Omicron form. OmiSure is the name of the kit, which is made by Tata Medical and Diagnostics. Omisure, an RT-PCR kit, had already been referred […]
Context: The fourth edition of Niti Aayog’s state health index for 2019-20 has been issued. The NITI Aayog, the World Bank, and the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry commissioned the “Health Index” as part of a report. In the most recent index, the following […]
What is Western Disturbance: It is an extra tropical storm that originates in the Mediterranean region and brings heavy winter rains to the Indian subcontinent’s northwestern regions. The westerlies drive a non-monsoonal precipitation pattern. Extratropical storms are a global phenomena that carry moisture in the […]
Context: The Centre wants the States to exchange more intelligence through the Multi Agency Centre (MAC), a single counter-terrorism grid run by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) that was established after the Kargil war in 2001. Union Home Minister Amit Shah ordered the Directors General of […]
