Important Operations conducted by Indian Army
India conducted number of operations under different coded titles which are important from exam point of view.
MoU for sharing data to prevent anomalies
The Income Tax Department and the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) are all set to sign an MoU that will allow the two to match their data regarding company financials so as to pin down any anomalies.
Core sector growth
The eight infrastructure sectors that constitute 40.27% of the index of industrial production (IIP) recovered to post a growth rate of 4.7% in March.
What Madras HC suggested on age of consent & age gap, and the implications
Madras High Court made two significant suggestions while acquitting a young accused of sexual assault charges under the POCSO Act
Puducherry L-G cannot interfere with administration, rules HC
The Madras High Court has that the Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) of Puducherry could not interfere with the day-to-day administration of the Union Territory when an elected government was in place.
Fani is India’s strongest April cyclone in 43 years, say meteorologists
Cyclonic storm Fani, which is lying about 600 km east of Vishakapatnam is the first severe, cyclonic storm to have formed in April in India’s oceanic neighbourhood.
Multi-lingual optical character recognition (OCR)
Recently, IIT Madras has developed a unified script for nine Indian languages, named the Bharati script.
Genes of climate-resistant chickpea varieties identified
An international team led by the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has identified in chickpea four important genes for heat tolerance and three important genes for drought tolerance.
Afghan ‘grand assembly’ begins
Recently, thousands of politicians and officials from across Afghanistan gathered in Kabul to discuss the war and U.S. efforts to forge a peace deal with the Taliban.
India-China pharma meet
A high-level delegation from India will be sent to China next month for the first meeting of the working group on pharmaceuticals with China.