GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Awareness in space. Context: NASA’s Lucy mission — set to explore a group of asteroids that follow behind and in front of Jupiter’s orbit — hit a snag recently when one of its solar arrays failed to unfurl. NASA will perform two steps over the next several months to …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Developments in Science and Technology. Context: This article forms a part of The Hindu’s Science for All newsletter, which explains all things Science, without the jargon. What is gravitational lensing? How does it work? Gravitational lensing is an effect of Einstein’s theory of general relativity – simply put, …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Economics of animal rearing. Context: Over 10,000 fish fingerlings of Indian major carps — catla, rohu and mrigal — were released in the Ganga at Sangam nose under the ranching programme organised by ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI), Prayagraj, recently. The exercise has been undertaken for conservation and …
GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Context: The delay in the Bharatnet project, aimed at connecting gram panchayats through broadband, has resulted in a cost escalation from Rs 20,100 crore to Rs 61,109 crore. This is partly …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Context: The Medical Education and Drugs Department (MEDD) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) have joined forces to prioritise health care projects with emphasis on Medical Education under the public-private partnership (PPP) model in Maharashtra. IFC will be the transaction advisor …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Government Policies and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Context: In the first step towards overhauling the two-decade old IT Act, the government has said it will put up the draft of the proposed new legislative framework for public consultation as soon as next month. The government …
