News Snippets

Here we have presented those contemporary developments which do not require detailed study; rather it is sufficient to read them in brief while preparing for the examination. Instead of including such developments in the initial regular columns of the magazine, we have presented them separately in this section.

1 Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC)

2 Bhusanket Web Portal

3 NIRMAN Portal

4 Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)

5 Asia’s First "Pre-clinical Network Facility"

6 E-Upahaar Portal

7 Greenium

8 RBI’s Financial Inclusion Index

9 National District Mineral Foundation (DMF) Portal

10 Angel Tax

11 Equalisation Levy

12 Steel Import Monitoring System 2.0 Portal

13 PM-Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana

14 Panchamasali Lingayats

15 Right to be Forgotten

16 Chhatrapati Shivaji’s “Wagh Nakh”

17 Sangameswara Temple

18 Tell Umm Amer Heritage Site

19 India Gains Significant Forest Area

20 Horned Frog of Arunachal Pradesh

21 New Species of Flower Flies

22 Bannerghatta Biological Park

23 Squalus Hima

24 Snowblind Malware

25 Magnetofossils in Ladakh’s Rock Varnish

26 Dark Oxygen

27 '2011 MW1'

28 Apophis Asteroid

29 Romania, Bulgaria and Greece Sign Strategic Deal

30 Paraguay Joins ISA

31 UN Water Convention

32 EAM’s Visit to Qatar

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