On 2nd October, 147th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, India ratified the Paris Agreement on Climate Change by depositing the instrument of ratification with the United Nations. India is the 62nd country to ratify the agreement, which will enter into force one month after 55 countries that account for 55 per cent of global emissions ratify the […]
Rajasthan has achieved the distinction of being the second state in the country after Gujarat to accomplish full voluntary fortification of edible oil. Currently, only fortified Salt is sold in Rajasthan. Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje had made the announcement in her budget speech of 2015-16 for a complete switch over to edible oil fortification to
About Kaveri/Cauvery River: Kaveri river origins at Talakaveri, Kodagu in Karnataka and flows generally south and east through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and across the southern Deccan plateau through the southeastern lowlands, emptying into the Bay of Bengal through two principal mouths in Poompuhar, Tamilnadu. Rising in southwestern Karnataka, it flows southeast some 800 kilometers to fall into the
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.” What is autophagy? In 1963, Christian de Duve, coined the term Autophagy (meaning “self eating”). It is the fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components.It was observed that, the cell destroys its own
The Union Government notified the constitution of the six member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) under section 45ZB of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act, 1934. Composition of MPC As per the provisions of the RBI Act, out of the six Members of MPC, three Members will be from the RBI and other three will
