Daily Current Affairs  – 15 March 2021

                       Facts in News AEG12 Mosquito Protein According to scientists at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), a mosquito protein, called AEG12, strongly inhibits the family of viruses that cause yellow fever, dengue, West Nile, and Zika, and also weakly inhibits coronaviruses. It is […]

In News The UK launched the Turing scheme to enable UK students to study abroad after leaving the European Union’s flagship Erasmus scholarship programme. About Turing Scheme It is named after the celebrated English mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing. The scheme will enable schools, colleges and universities in the UK to apply for government funding. […]

In News Recently, the Supreme Court (SC) has asked the Centre to respond to a plea challenging the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991. Background The plea challenged various provisions of the Act. Section 2, 3, 4 not only offend the right to pray, practice and propagate religion (Article 25), the right to manage, […]

In News The Centre has reconstituted an advisory committee to prepare a plan for studying the mythical Saraswati river for the next two years, earlier the panel’s term ended in 2019. Background The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on March 10 issued a notification for “reconstitution of the Advisory Committee for the Multidisciplinary Study of […]

In News The gregarious flowering of bamboo inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala poses a potential threat to wildlife in the Nilgiri biosphere, a major tiger and elephant habitat. About Bamboo Flowering Thorny bamboo (Bamboosa Bambos) is a monocarpic (flowering only once) plant. It belongs to the Poaceae family (grass family) and its flowering cycle […]

In News The Centre will allow residents to fill columns in the National Population Register (NPR) forms on their own through online mode. Key Points The demographic and other particulars of each family and individual are to be collected/ updated during the updation exercise of NPR. No documents or biometrics would be collected during the […]

In News The Central government’s Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and its Adjoining Areas has been shut down within five months of its constitution. About Background The Centre dissolved it after five months as the ordinance lapsed after failing to become an act. The erstwhile Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) […]