In this Article, we are providing you with a complete List of Important Hydro, Thermal & Nuclear Power Plants in India in India and the world. This information is very vital as in many SSC & Railway exams direct questions are being asked from this topic and also in UPSC IAS Exam. The General Awareness section is…
Article 35A of the Constitution of India Jammu and Kashmir Article 35A of the Indian Constitution is an article that empowers the Jammu and Kashmir state’s legislature to define “permanent residents” of the state and provide special rights and privileges to those permanent residents. It was added to the Constitution through a Presidential Order, i.e.,…
Climate of India For UPSC IAS 2022.A Topic of Indian Geography & G.K The Climate of India comprises a wide range of weather conditions across a vast geographic scale and varied topography, making generalisations difficult. Based on the Köppen system, India hosts six major climatic subtypes, ranging from arid desert in the west, alpine tundra…
Budget 2021 Highlights, Summary and Key Pointers: The Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs, Smt Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament today, which is the first budget of this new decade and also a digital one in the backdrop of unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. Laying a vision for Aatma Nirbhar Bharat, she…
Caste System in India a Brief History of Indian Culture The Indian society is socio-politically stratified. Caste system has prevailed for ages and arranges the people into social strata or classes. Though this system is similar to the concept of racism that prevails in western countries where people are discriminated on the basis of their…
The contemporary India experiences an almost unrestricted exploitation of resources because of the lure of new consumerist lifestyles. The balance of nature is disrupted. This has led to many conflicts in the society. In this article, we discuss the major environmental movements in India. 7 Major Environmental Movements in India Must read for UPSC 2021…
With an increasing number of coronavirus cases, the government has locked down transport services, closed all public and private offices, factories and restricted mobilization. Based on recent studies, some economists have said that there is a job loss of 40 million people (MRD report) in the country, mostly in the unorganized sectors. The covid-19 epidemic…
Operation Twist is an unconventional monetary policy of the Central Bank. Recently, the Reserve Bank of India tried ‘Operation Twist’ in India. Operation Twist 7 Key Points to Understand New RBI Policy Originally, ‘Operation Twist’ was the name given to the US Federal Reserve monetary policy operation. This operation involved the purchase and sale of…
On Thursday, farmer organisations in Haryana defied prohibitory orders imposed amid the pandemic to hold a rally at the Pipli wholesale grain market near Kurukshetra. They even blocked the Delhi-Chandigarh national highway for a couple of hours, when the police initially did not allow them to move to the venue. Their target was three central…
Government and its bureaucrats need to be frightened out of their complacency, opines former RBI Governor The 23.9% contraction in GDP growth numbers for the first quarter of FY 2020-21 “should alarm us all” and the government and its bureaucrats need to be “frightened out of their complacency” and into meaningful activity, former Reserve Bank…
