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PM-KISAN

PM-KISAN Recently, the Prime Minister released the 8th instalment of financial benefit under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN). Key Points About: Under the scheme, the Centre transfers an amount of Rs 6,000 per year, in three equal instalments, directly into the bank accounts of all landholding farmers irrespective of the size of their land […]

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BRICS

BRICS BRICS is an acronym for the grouping of the world’s leading emerging economies, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.  The BRICS Leaders’ Summit is convened annually.  Structure BRICS does not exist in form of organization, but it is an annual summit between the supreme leaders of five nations.  The Chairmanship of the

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Chipko Movement

Chipko Movement Recently, Sunderlal Bahuguna, the Gandhian who was the driving force behind the Chipko movement died due to Covid- 19. Key Points Chipko Movement: It was a non-violent agitation which originated in Uttar Pradesh’s Chamoli district (now Uttarakhand) in 1973.  The name of the movement ‘chipko’ comes from the word ’embrace’, as the villagers

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No, Humans Didn’t Evolve From the Ancestors of Living Apes

No, Humans Didn’t Evolve From the Ancestors of Living Apes The last ancestor that we shared with apes had its own set of traits, and was different from both us and modern apes. The truth is that we don’t know where we, homo sapiens, came from. In his 1871 work, In The Descent of Man,

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Recombinant DNA Technology

Recombinant DNA Technology Recombinant DNA Technology is the name given to the process of creating artificial DNA by fusing DNA from various sources with various genetic components. Genetic engineering is the term used to refer to recombinant DNA technologies. In 1968, Swiss microbiologist Werner Arber made the discovery of restriction enzymes, which led to the

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A-76: World’s Largest Iceberg

A-76: World’s Largest Iceberg An enormous iceberg ‘A-76’ has calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf, lying in the Weddell Sea, in Antarctica. It measures around 4320 sq km in size – currently making it the largest berg in the world.  Key Points About A-76:  The newly calved berg ‘A-76’ was spotted

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