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Indian Express

Indian Express Subject  Pg No  Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains   GS 1/2 3 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas begins (History/Governance) Learn facts related to Pravasi Bharatiya Divas   GS 3 3 Army’s rightsizing plan: Veterans at training institutes and cross-skilling (Defence) Know about Army’s planned manpower optimisation exercise and its objectives  GS 3   3 As […]

The Hindu

The Hindu Subject Pg No Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains   GS 3   3   Project Sambandh, a retired officer’s calling to help kin of Army’s non-combat casualties What is Project Sambandh? And its objectives    GS 1/3   6   Avoid further delay in conducting the Census  (Population & Associated Issues /Economy) Know […]

Antimicrobial Resistance(AMR): a global threat

In News  A rising trend of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) has been observed among patients at an Ahmedabad hospital. About Antimicrobial resistance (AMR It is often also called antibiotic resistance. It occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk […]

India to hold first Y20 Summit

In News The first-ever Y20 (Youth 20) Summit is to be held in India on the sidelines of the G20 Summit. It will focus on themes of the future of work; climate change and disaster risk reduction; peacebuilding and reconciliation; and youth in democracy. About Y20 (Youth 20) Summit  Youth 20 (Y20) is the official […]

Exercise ‘Veer Guardian-2023’

In News India and Japan will hold their first bilateral air exercise from January 12 to 26, in reflection of the growing defence ties amid increasing concerns over China’s military muscle-flexing in the Indo-Pacific region. About  The exercise ‘Veer Guardian-2023’ involving the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Japan Air Self Defence Force (JASDF) will be […]

Sagol Kangjei

In News The Home Minister inaugurated  a 122-foot-tall statue of a polo player astride a Manipur Pony in Imphal. About Modern-day polo originated within the small northeast Indian state of Manipur in 3100 BC, where it was played as sagol kangjei (sagol means pony and kangjei is a game of sticks).  The Manipur Pony is […]

Sovereign Green Bonds (SgrBs)

In News For the first-time, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will issue Sovereign Green Bonds (SgrBs) worth Rs 16,000 crore in two tranches of Rs 8,000 crore each in the current financial year. About RBI will issue 5-year and 10-year green bonds of Rs 4,000 crore each on January 25 and February 9. The […]

Village Defence Committees

In News Jammu and Kashmir L-G Manoj Sinha recently said Village Defence Guards would be set up in the UT. The scheme to set up VDGs in vulnerable areas of J&K was approved by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. What is a JK Village Defence Committee? The VDCs were first formed in the erstwhile […]

Project Sambandh

In News Project Sambandh helping families of Army personnel who die in non-battle scenarios. About Project Sambandh It is an initiative of Retired army officer and Shaurya Chakra awardee Colonel Vembu Shankar. It is a one-man philanthropic initiative to connect the Next of Kin (NoK) of ‘physical casualties’ in the Army – was made in […]

Superconductivity of Mercury

In News Recently, a research group has discovered a clear picture of superconductivity in Mercury. Key Points Discovery:  In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity in mercury.  At a very low temperature, called the threshold temperature, solid mercury offers no resistance to the flow of electric current. The BCS theory: Mercury was later […]