11.05.2019 National and International Current Affairs

11.05.19     INTERNATIONAL Who FOR ELIMINATING INDUSTRIALLY PRODUCED TRANS FATS BY 2023 The WHO has in partnership with the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to wished to achieve elimination of industrially produced trans fats by 2023. They expressed their commitment to eliminate industrial trans fats, and reduce salt, sugar and saturated fats in … Read more

Indian Revolutionaries in India and abroad

BHAGAT SINGH The name Bhagat Singh has become a synonym of revolution. He was one of the great revolutionaries who made supreme sacrifice for the nation. Thousands of young people sacrificed their lives in the altar of India’s liberation struggle but the name Bhagat Singh has a special place in the history of our independence. … Read more

DMPQ: Start up India scheme

Start up India was launched to build a strong ecosystem for nurturing innovation and startups in the country which will drive economic growth and generate large scale employment opportunities.  Start Up India scheme shows government recognition of the potential of start ups. It tries to utilise India’s IT prowess and to converge it to develop … Read more

DMPQ: Describe in brief Mendel’s Experiments and law of inheritance

Mendel’s laws Mendel discovered that, when he crossed purebred white flower and purple flower pea plants (the parental or P generation), the result was not a blend. Rather than being a mix of the two, the offspring (known as the F1 generation) was purple-flowered. When Mendel self-fertilized the F1 generation pea plants, he obtained a … Read more

Social Reform Measures By British Government

 Social reform measures by British Government (1828 to 1857) Indian Society in the 19th century was caught in a vicious web created by religious superstitions and dogmas. All religions in general and Hinduism in particular had become a compound of magic, animism, and superstitions. The abominable rites like animal sacrifice and physical torture … Read more

13.08.19 Assam (APSC) Daily Current Affairs

ASSAM   New inventions likely to lift State’s agarwood industry   The inventions of the artificial infection process of agarwood (Aquilaria malaccensis Lam) trees and the sachi vekur (agarwood fungus) species that has the capacity to swarm rapidly in agarwood trees, have virtually changed the entire scenario concerning the prospect of the State’s agarwood-based industry. … Read more

Regional Organizations

 Regional Organizations                Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)   The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed in 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand to promote political and economic cooperation and regional stability. The member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations … Read more

26.02.19 APSC (Assam) Current Affairs

ASSAM   CM Sarbananda Sonowal lays foundation for projects worth Rs 450 crore in Diburgarh   Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation for a slew of projects amounting to Rs 450 crore in Dibrugarh.   Sonowal laid the foundation stone for the Dibrugarh pure drinking water project, worth Rs 183.46 crore, under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and … Read more

DPPQ- Indian Pre History Part 1

Question:Which of the following site is considered to be the earliest lower palaeolithic sites in India >>>Bori >>>lingsugur >>>Bhimbedka >>>Belan Valley Question:Which of the following is known as old stone age(500,000 B.C to 8000 B.C.) >>>Paleolothic >>>Mesolithic >>>Neolithic >>>Chalcolithic Question:Which of the following is known as Middle stone age(8000 B.C to 6000 B.C.) >>>Mesolithic >>>Paleolothic … Read more