KPSC Prelims and Mains Notes, KPSC Test Series
Political parties have encashed electoral bonds worth Rs 1,213 crore till data in 2022 as campaigning for the Assembly elections in Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand was in full swing earlier this year. Since inception in 2018, electoral bonds worth Rs 9,187 crore have been encashed by political parties. In 2021, electoral bonds worth Rs 1,502 crore were … Read more
According to Mercom India Research, India installed a record 10 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity in the calendar year 2021, a 212 percent increase year on year (y-o-y). According to the report, India’s cumulative solar installed capacity was at around 49 GW at the end of December 2021. According to the report, 3.2 … Read more
Over the past fifty years, the agricultural sector has undergone a significant shift. Farm machinery has become vast, better, and more productive because of technological advances, enabling the more efficient cultivation of wider areas. With the help of cutting-edge tech in agriculture, precise methods of cultivation, and automation devices, organizations may function more economically, efficiently, … Read more
The pandemic has brought to the fore the fragility of the global supply chain of semiconductor manufacturing. The situation is exacerbated by the overdependence of the world on East Asia for fab manufacturing, the rising price of silicon, and the China-U.S. trade war. No wonder, countries are scampering to safeguard their interests by introducing attractive … Read more
A major cholera outbreak in Delhi in 1988 and the Surat plague outbreak of 1994, nudged the Government of India to launch the National Surveillance Programme for Communicable Diseases in 1997. However, this initiative remained rudimentary till, in wake of the SARS outbreak, in 2004, India launched the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP). The focus … Read more
There is considerable excitement in the world of medicine after scientists reported that a woman living with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and administered an experimental treatment is likely ‘cured’. Only three people so far are known to have been cured of HIV. A patient with leukaemia in the United States has become the first woman … Read more
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) procedures involve surgically removing eggs from a woman’s ovaries, combining them with sperm in the laboratory, and returning them to the woman’s body or donating them to another woman. Assisted Reproductive Technology fertility treatments handle both a woman’s egg and a man’s sperm. By definition, ART does not include treatments in … Read more
Flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) have an internal combustion engine and are capable of operating on gasoline and any blend of gasoline and ethanol. FFVs are capable of running on 100 percent petrol or 100 percent bio-ethanol or a combination of both. Strong hybrid is another term for full hybrid vehicles, which can run solely on … Read more
Some of the technologies will play important role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution are as follows: Artificial intelligence AI defines computers that can think like humans. They can recognize complex patterns, process information, draw conclusions, and make recommendations. AI has many applications, from spotting patterns in huge piles of unstructured data to powering the autocorrect … Read more
. One Health concept is a worldwide strategy for expanding interdisciplinary collaborations and communications in all aspects of health care for people, animals, and the environment. One Health approach identifies that zoonotic diseases, environmental pressures, food security, anti-microbial resistance, and health threats of animals and humans are all inter-related. The need for greater interdisciplinary collaboration … Read more
