In 2008, Punarbasu Chaudhuri, mangrove ecologist from the University of Calcutta spotted an interesting mangrove plant at the bank of river Hooghly inside Kolkata city. It was quite unusual, as…
Category: Important Topics Prelims 2021
Important Topics Prelims 2021
‘Feluda’ Test for Covid
It uses CRISPR-Cas technology for the detection of genes specific to SARS-CoV-2 virus.This has been developed by the CSIR-IGIB and the TATA Group,and approved by the Drug Controller General of…
Chola Dynasty
The history of the Cholas falls naturally into four periods: the early Cholas of the Sangam literature, the interregnum between the fall of the Sangam Cholas and the rise of…
Gene Editing and CRISPR/Cas9
French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of gene editing likened to “molecular scissors”, known as the…
Hepatitis C
Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis…
Current Affairs(Updated Handout 2020-Part 2 )M.Puri Sir
Download Complete File INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 1. Indo-China border clash Sino-Indian relations had remained frozen after the 1962 War till 1976 when diplomatic activity restarted. Though there have been a number…
Current Affairs(Updated Handout 2020) M.Puri Sir
Download Complete Handout 1. Summoning The House : Governor vs Chief Minister The political crisis in Rajasthan has raised several questions of constitutional interpretation and morality. A key question that…
National Clean Air Program(NCAP)
A time bound national level strategy for pan India implementation to tackle the increasing air pollution problem across the country in a comprehensive manner in the form of National Clean…