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AIM-PRIME Programme

In News Recently, the Government has launched AIM-PRIME Playbook to help academics launch deep-tech spin-offs. AIM- PRIME (Program for Researchers in Innovation, Market Readiness and Entrepreneurship) Launched by:  Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog AIM has joined hands with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)  The nationwide program will be implemented by Venture Center – […]

Marsquake

In News Recently, NASA’s InSight lander detected a quake on Mars, the largest ever observed on another planet. Key Points Earlier Events: The InSight rover first landed on Mars in November 2018, and has since heard 1,313 quakes.  The largest previously recorded “marsquake” was detected in August 2021. Marsquakes and its cause:  On Earth, quakes […]

Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA)

In News Recently, CBI raids 40 locations linked to NGOs and MHA officials over alleged FCRA violations. What is the FCRA? Background: The FCRA was enacted during the Emergency in 1976 amid apprehensions that foreign powers were interfering in India’s affairs by pumping money into the country through independent organisations. These concerns were, in fact, […]

Pardoning Power of President and Governor

In News Recently, the Union Government claimed that the President and not the Tamil Nadu Governor has exclusive power to decide Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination convict A.G. Perarivalan’s plea for pardon. About Pardoning Power Power of Pardons under Articles 73 and 161 of the Constitution is different from judicial power as the governor or the President […]

Marital Rape

In News Recently, the Delhi High Court delivered a split verdict in a batch of petitions challenging the exception provided to marital rape in the Indian Penal Code (IPC). About The court was hearing a clutch of four petitions challenging the constitutionality of the exception to Section 375.  Petitioners include the All India Democratic Women’s […]

High Time for Police Reforms

In Context Demands for states to initiate police reforms have started coming from various quarters. About The Indian police system in 2022, still works under the framework of the archaic Police Act, 1861. The Supreme Court’s directives given in Prakash Singh vs. The Union of India case have not been implemented fully by the states. […]

Indian Express

Indian Express Subject  Pg no Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains GS2  3 Until you reconsider sedition law, what of pending and future cases. SC asks Centre. (Polity and Governance) What is sedition law? Know about the provision of the IPC dealing with sedition, what is its crux? Know the history of sedition law, associated […]

The Hindu

The Hindu Subject Pg No Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains   GS2 1 SC seeks interim protection for people charged with sedition. (Polity and Governance) What is sedition law? Know about the provision of the IPC dealing with sedition, what is its crux? Know the history of sedition law, associated courts’ judgements, present case before […]

Pulitzer Prize

In Context A team of four Indian photographers from the Reuters news agency — slain photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave — have won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for their coverage of the Covid-19 crisis in India. Pulitzer Award The  Pulitzer Award was established in 1917, named […]

National Technology Day

In News Every year, the 11th of May is celebrated as National Technology Day. About  History: It is celebrated to commemorate the anniversary of the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests.  India successfully test-fired its Shakti-1 nuclear missile in operation called Pokhran-II, also codenamed Operation Shakti. The nuclear missile was tested at the Indian Army’s Pokhran Test […]

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