• The Sports Ministry is all set to establish Khelo India State Centres of Excellence (KISCE) under the ministry’s flagship, Khelo India Scheme to enhance India’s Olympic performance. One KISCE will be identified in each state and union territory, with…
Mains Paper 2: Health Prelims level: COVID-19 cases Mains level: Role of public and private sectors to address the pandemic Context: • Medical care has been disrupted by the novel coronavirus. Fear, anxiety, uncertainty and confusion have all overtaken clinical…
Mains Paper 2: Polity Prelims level: Not much Mains level: Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States Context: • The new-found spirit of camaraderie between the Arvind Kejriwal-led government of Delhi and the BJP-led Centre has not come…
Mains Paper 2: International Relations Prelims level: India-China bilateral relations Mains level: Disputed areas between India and China, boundary demarcations, implications of these disputes and ways to address these issues. Context: • Deaths of at least 20 Indian soldiers, and…
Mains Paper 2: Polity Prelims level: Official Language Act Mains level: Highlights the amendment of the Official Language Act Context: • The Haryana government in May notified an amendment to its Official Language Act, brought in to compulsorily mandate the…
• The Sports Ministry is all set to establish Khelo India State Centres of Excellence (KISCE) under the ministry’s flagship, Khelo India Scheme to enhance India’s Olympic performance. About: • One KISCE will be identified in each state and union…
• The traditional art of ‘talamaddale’, a variant of Yakshagana theatre, too has gone virtual in times of COVID-19. A performance was streamed live on social media on June 13. About: • Tala-Maddale is an ancient form of performance dialogue…
• Researchers leading a major clinical trial in the UK announced that the drug dexamethasone had been found to cut death rates by around a third in the most severely ill among Covid-19 patients. About: • Dexamethasone is a corticosteroid,…
• Jan Aushadhi Suvidha Sanitary Napkin is being made available in more than 6300 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushdhi Pariyojna -PMBJP Kendras across the country at a minimum price of Rs.1/-per pad. The market price of the similar Sanitary Napkins is…
• Mumbai is among those cities in India which gets badly hit by flood every year during monsoon. • The financial capital of India, has been experiencing floods with increased periodicity. The recent flood on 29 August 2017 had brought…
