1. Golden rice Bangladesh is to be the first country to approve golden rice planting in the country. Golden rice is a genetically modified variety of rice. It is developed by the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). This variety of rice is claimed to be able to fight vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of blindness among children […]
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1. Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh The Ministry of Women and Child Development has launched the Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh (BPKK) in New Delhi. The BPKK will be a repository of diverse crops across agro-climatic zones in India for better nutritional outcomes. The country has been broadly divided into fifteen agricultural regions based on agro climatic features, particularly soil type, climate including temperature and
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1. Eleventh BRICS Summit The 11th BRICS Summit took place from 13th-14th November 2019 in Brasilia, Brazil. The theme is “Economic Growth for an Innovative Future.” Points to note regarding Brasilia Declaration It advocates and supports multilateralism, the central role of the U.N. in international affairs and respect for international law. Reforming Multilateral Systems: There is an urgent need to strengthen and reform the United Nations and
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1. Lunar Exosphere The thin gaseous layer encompassing the Moon is the ‘Lunar exosphere’, due to the gas atoms present in it very rarely collide with each other, thus making up a very tenuous structure. Chandrayaan-2 currently orbiting the Moon has detected Argon-40 from an altitude of about 100 km in the lunar exosphere. It
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1. National Survey & Mapping Organisation The Survey of India is India’s central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying. Set up in 1767 to help consolidate the territories of the British East India Company, it is one of the oldest Engineering Departments of the government of India. It comes under the administrative control
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