Short squeeze
• There are dozens of ways to pick stocks, but few have been as unconventional — or as successful — as the coordinated short-squeeze being deployed by Reddit’s army of day traders. Now, Wall Street is scanning the matter. About:…
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Risa
• Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has of late made it his style statement to sport the Risa. The Biplab Deb government is now eyeing to promote Risa as the signature textile of Tripura nationally. About: • Risa is…
Gujarat given American dragon fruit a Sanskrit name
• The Gujarat government has decided to rename the dragon fruit as ‘kamalam’. About: • Dragon fruit is the fruit of a species of wild cactus indigenous to South and Central America, where it is called pitaya or pitahaya. •…
Data privacy: Withdraw new policy, Centre tells WhatsApp
• MeitY stated that proposed consolidation of sensitive information exposes Indian citizens to security risks. • Earlier, WhatsApp had notified users that it will collect metadata (data that provides information about other data) from their chats with business accounts and…
First time in 10 months, imports in positive zone; exports inch up
• Recently, an estimate has been released by the Commerce Ministry which showed that Merchandise Exports increased in December 2020, for a second time since February 2020, while imports advanced for the first time in 10 months, suggesting a gradual…
World’s oldest known cave painting found in Indonesia
• Cave painting, dating back to more than 45,000 years, depicts a warty pigs endemic to Sulawesi island of Indonesia, where the painting was found. • Painting was found in a limestone cave and was made using red ochre pigment.…
2020 among the three warmest years: WMO
• According to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the year 2020 was among the three warmest years on record. About: • In 2019, the average global temperature recorded was 14.9 degrees Celsius, which was 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial levels (1850…
Paternity leave
• Actor Anuskha Sharma and her husband, Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli, became parents to a girl on January 11. While the Indian team is on a tour to Australia, Kohli came back to India after the first Test, on…
Houbara bustard
• Pakistan has issued special permits to Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the crown prince and five other members of their family to hunt Houbara bustard during the 2020-21 hunting season. • The Arab royals hunt the bird…
Maritime security, coastal defence exercise begins
• The second edition of the biennial pan-India coastal defence exercise ‘Sea Vigil-21’ will be conducted on 12-13 January 2021. About: • The exercise, inaugural edition of which was conducted in January 2019; will be undertaken along the entire 7516…
RBI operationalises payment infra development fund
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the operationalisation of the payment infrastructure development fund (PIDF) scheme About: • PIDF is aimed at encouraging deployment of more digital payments infrastructure across tier-3 to tier-6 centres with special focus on…
Khanij Bidesh India Ltd
• India, through a newly-floated state-owned company, inked a pact with an Argentine firm mid-last year to jointly prospect lithium in the South American country that has the third-largest reserves of lithium. About: • The new company, Khanij Bidesh India…