5G technology:

GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights. Context: According to the recently released ‘Ericsson Mobility Report’: Fifth generation telecom services are likely to account for 39% of mobile subscriptions or about 500 million subscriptions in India at the end …

What are International Financial Services Centres(IFSC)?

GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International institutions.   Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech, on 3rd December. The event is being hosted by International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), under the aegis of Government of India in collaboration with GIFT City and Bloomberg. …

Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0:

GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.   Context: Two rounds of Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0 of 15 days’ duration were conducted recently, to reach out to the pregnant women and children who missed vaccination under routine immunisation programmes in 250 …

Renunciation of Indian citizenship:

GS Paper 2: Topics covered: Indian Constitution- Significant feature- Citizenship.   Renunciation of Indian citizenship: Context: More than six lakh Indians renounced citizenship in the past five years, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Lok Sabha. The reason for a large number of Indians surrendering their citizenship was not stated in the reply. …