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22/08/2025

Blue Carbon refers to organic carbon captured and stored by the ocean in vegetated coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests, saltmarshes, or seagrass meadows.
“Blue” refers to the watery nature of this storage.
The vast majority of blue carbon is carbon dioxide that has dissolved directly into the ocean.

21/08/2025

Civil Registration System

It is popularly known as the birth and death registration system. The registration of birth and death is done under the provisions of a central Act namely Registration of Births and Deaths (RBD) Act, 1969.
CRS falls under the Concurrent list of the Constitution of India at Sl. No. 30.
The Office of the Registrar General, India, (ORGI) obtains data on causes of death from the Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths of different States and Union Territories.

13/08/2025

The RBI's Digital Payments Index has been constructed by the RBI to measure the extent of digitisation of payments across the country. It was first launched in January 2021. It has been constructed with March 2018 as the base period. The DPI index comprises five broad parameters that enable the measurement of deepening and pe*******on of digital payments in the country over different time periods.

13/08/2025

Nahargarh Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in the Aravalli hills, just 20 kilometres from Jaipur, Rajasthan. The sanctuary is named after Nahargarh Fort, a historic fort built in the 18th century by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the founder of Jaipur.
Nahargarh Biological Park, a part of the Nahargarh sanctuary, is famous for the lion safaris.

12/08/2025

The Doctrine of Merger is a common law doctrine founded on the principle of maintenance of decorum and propriety in the functioning of Courts and Tribunals and preserving the sanctity of the justice delivery system.
It provides that when an appellate court passes an order, the order passed by the lower court is merged with that order.

12/08/2025

The Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA) was established in 2016 under the Companies Act, 2013. It manages the Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) and promotes investor awareness and financial protection.
Make refunds of shares, unclaimed dividends, matured deposits/debentures etc. to investors and promote awareness among investors.
It is dedicated to safeguarding investor interests.

12/08/2025

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
was signed between the United States and Russia (Formerly known as the Soviet Union) in 1987.
Objective: Under this treaty both powers agreed to destroy two categories of lethal missile systems from their own stocks as a means to decelerate the nuclear arms race.

08/08/2025

Market coupling is an economic model used in energy markets to create a single, uniform price for electricity across different trading platforms or exchanges. India has three power exchanges—Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), Power Exchange India Limited (PXIL), and Hindustan Power Exchange Limited (HPX).

07/08/2025

Pilibhit Tiger Reserve is located in Pilibhit District, Lakhimpur Kheri District, and Bahraich District of Uttar Pradesh. The river Gomti originates from the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve. It is home to a myriad of wild animals, including the endangered tiger, swamp deer, Bengal florican, hog deer, leopard, etc.

07/08/2025

CLOVES Syndrome is caused by mutations in a gene called PIK3CA which makes one of the proteins in an enzyme called PI3K. It is a rare genetic disorder. CLOVES Syndrome, in which the letters stand for: Congenital; Lipomatous; Overgrowth; Vascular malformations ; Epidermal nevi and Spinal/skeletal anomalies/Scoliosis.

04/08/2025

04/08/2025

World's First Rare Blood Group Found in Bangalore Woman. It was given the name CRIB, an acronym formed from:

CR: Cromer (the blood group system)

I: India

B: Bangalore (close to Kolar, the discovery location)