Relevance: Prelims: Economy What is Gross Fixed Capital formation? It is essentially net investment. It is a component of the
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General Studies-III: Technology, Economic Development, Bio diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management.
BASIC ECONOMIC TERMS MOST OFTEN IN NEWS
Relevance: Prelims: Economy ►NATIONAL INCOME: National income or Gross Domestic Product (GDP) refers to the money value of all final
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Relevance: Prelims: Economy: Current Affairs Why in news? The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has set up
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Relevance: Prelims: Defence and security Why in news? The Indian Air Force (IAF) and Royal Air Force (RAF) jointly commenced
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Relevance: Prelims: Environment; Current Affairs Why in news? The 2019 World Air Quality Report was released by the pollution tracker
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►ECOTONE A transition area between two biomes. It is where two communities meet and integrate. For ex -Mangroves, Estuary. ►BIOSPHERE
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Relevance: Prelims: Environment Why in news? The 13th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention to Conservation of Migratory Species
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Relevance: G.S paper III: Cybersecurity; Essay; & sociology Paper II: visions of Social changes in India Introduction: The world we
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Relevance: Prelims/Mains: G.S paper III: Environment and Ecology ►BIODIVERSITY Also known as Biological diversity is a term that describes the
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Relevance: Prelims: Environment Why in news? A new species of snails have been named Craspedotropis gretathunbergae, in honour of Swedish
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Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology Why in news? Researchers from National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, and SASTRA University, Thanjavur,
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Relevance: Prelims/Mains : G.S paper III: Indian Economy Context: In the Budget, a new personal income tax regime was announced.
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Relevance: Prelims: G.S paper III: Environment Why in news? The worrisome man-animal conflict in the Kawal Tiger Reserve (KTR) on
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Relevance: Prelims/Mains: G.S paper III: Environment Why in news? India’s proposal to include Great Indian Bustard, Asian Elephant and Bengal
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Relevance: Prelims/Mains: G.S paper III: Environment A new report by the World Wide Fund (WWF) analyses the volume of plastic
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