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It is a permanent intergovernmental organization of oil-exporting countries. Formation  It was established in 1960 by the five founding members Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. Headquarters Vienna, Austria. Mission To coordinate and unify the petroleum policies of its … Continue reading →

The Atacama Desert is the driest non-polar place on Earth. It is located in Chile. Facts to know about the Atacama Desert It is an example of a coastal desert. It is situated between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. … Continue reading →

CAR-T cell therapy, also known as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, is a type of immunotherapy that uses a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer. Currently, it is approved for treating leukaemias and lymphomas. Procedure for the Therapy Collecting … Continue reading →

An NPA is a loan or advance for which the principal or interest payment remained overdue for a period of 90 days. Classification of Assets: As per the RBI guideline, banks are required to classify NPAs further into: Substandard Assets: … Continue reading →

Denotified Tribes, also known as Vimukta Jatis, are communities that were collectively branded as criminal tribes during British rule.  These groups are largely nomadic or semi-nomadic, historically dependent on occupations such as pastoralism, salt trading, acrobatics, snake charming, transport services, … Continue reading →

  Source: The Hindu

Introduced in India in 1985 under the 52nd Amendment to the Constitution of India Mention in the Tenth Schedule to the Constitution What is it?:  It lays down the process by which legislators may be disqualified on grounds of defection. … Continue reading →

It is a large system of ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the global Thermohaline Circulation (also called the “Global Conveyor Belt”). AMOC transports warm, salty surface water northward and cold, deep water southward. How does it work? … Continue reading →

The Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of India (RGI) is the top authority for managing Census operations and civil registration across the country. Formed in 1961 under the Ministry of Home Affairs. Functions Conducts the decennial Census of India under the … Continue reading →

It is the third-largest peninsular river system and the largest in Odisha, which originates in the northern foothills of Dandakaranya in Chhattisgarh. Basin states are  Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh. Bordering mountain ranges are the Central India hills, … Continue reading →