Tough Fish Why in news? To buy our online courses:  Click Here Tough Fish Why in news? Using genome sequences, researchers from McGill University have shown that the three-spined stickleback can adapt to extreme climatic changes. Climate change is leading to habitat loss and temperature swings, and this finding can help scientists map out the population’s evolutionary […]

Cheetah:  Cheetah never breeds in captivity and declared extinct in India in 1952. The last one died in Chhattisgarh in 1947. To be reintroduced this year. To buy our online courses:  Click Here Reintroduction Expected to be re-introduced into the country in November this year at the Kuno National Park, MP. India to be home to […]

GATKA: GATKA Origins and current status Gatka comes from the Sanskrit word Gada meaning a mace. Ancient Indian martial arts practiced by the Sikhs of Punjab Mughals killed the fifth guru, Guru Arjan Dev and his son Guru Hargobind developed the idea of learning Gatka to fight further oppression. Imbibes the spirit of both the […]

MALERKOTLA: MALERKOTLA: Why in the news ● The Punjab government declares the only Muslim-majority Sikh state of Malerkotla as the 23rd district on May 14th, the day of Eid. A demand of the Muslim majority for over two decades. ● As per the 2011 census report, Muslims form the majority numbering around 92,765 forming 68.50% […]

OSIRIS-REx Origins: OSIRIS-REx Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security- Regolith Explorer To buy our online courses:  Click Here The mission ● NASA’s most ambitious sample collection program left Cape Canaveral in Florida on Sep 8th, 2016. Headed for an asteroid called Bennu ● The mission was to Collect 60 grams of pristine regolith samples (a layer […]

2-DG Inhibits SARS-COV-2 Growth and Cyto-Pathic Effect: 2 DEOXY-D-GLUCOSE   2-DG released The first batch of the indigenously developed anti-Covid drug, 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose oral powder or ‘2-DG’ released by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday (May 17). Developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), New Delhi, […]

‘Black’ and ‘white’ in the greys of pandemic: Recovering from Covid-19 may not be the end of sufferings for all infected people. The use of steroids in treatment and weak body immunity may result in a life-threatening disease which can rapidly spread in the body. This is ‘black fungus’ or mucormycosis, a rare but serious […]

Arab Israel Conflict: Q1. Who are the Jewish people? Ans. Jews are an ethnic group that originally believed in the religion of Judaism. Their origin dates back to the 2nd millennium BCE in the West Asian Levant region. They trace their ancestry to a group of Iron Age Semitic-speaking (an Afro-Asiatic family of language) tribes […]