Context: The passage of a Bill in the Lok Sabha to secure the rights of transgender persons is a progressive step towards… Continue reading The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2018

Context Sheikh Hasina’s party, which leads the Grand Alliance, has romped back to power for an unprecedented fourth term in office.… Continue reading India-Bangladesh Relations

CONTEXT Ten years ago, Pakistan carried out one of the most heinous of terror attacks perpetrated anywhere in the world.… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Ten Years after the Mumbai Attack

  What is Big Data? Big data is a term that describes the large volume of data – both structured… Continue reading Big Data and its Applications

The rare earth elements (REE) are a set of seventeen metallic elements. These include the fifteen lanthanides on the periodic… Continue reading Rare Earth Elements

ARCTIC India initiated its Arctic Research Program in 2007 with thrust on climate change in the circumpolar north. The major… Continue reading Polar Sciences – Arctic, Antarctic, Himalayas, etc.

  Polymetallic manganese nodules (PMN) These are small potato-sized (from millimetres to tens of centimetres in diameter) lumps of material… Continue reading Deep Sea Mining – Polymetallic Nodules, Polymetallic Sulphides, Cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts

1. Five Generations of Computers Generation Period Technology Used First 1940-1956 Vacuum Tubes Second 1956-1963 Transistors Third 1964-1971 Integrated Circuits(IC)… Continue reading Computers, Supercomputers, Quantum Computing, etc.