Climate Adaptation Summit

Climate adaptation summit is an online event aimed at working out practical solutions and plans for tackling climate change until 2030. This international event is hosted by the Netherlands and will result in an ‘Adaptation Action Agenda’ which spells out ..

Alabama Underwater Forest

The Alabama underwater forest is a 60,000 year old remain of an ancient forest of cypress trees located some 60 feet under the waters of Gulf of Mexico. It was covered by layers of sediments which protected the remnants from ..

Non convertible debentures

Non convertible debentures or NCD are long term financial instruments used to raise long term funds by companies. These debentures cannot be converted into equities or shares i.e. non-convertible. In compensation for this drawback, the NCDs give higher rate of ..

Limited Liability Partnership Act

The Limited Liability Partnership Act was introduced in 2008 for the legal sanction of LLP or limited liability partnership concept. LLP is an alternative corporate business with the benefits of partnership flexibility and limited liability of a firm. Each partner ..

Moore’s Law

Moore’s Law is an observation in the field of computer science that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit or the density of the transistors on the microchip increases two-fold every 2 years. It was given by Gordon Moore, ..

Rhesus Macaque

Rhesus macaque is a monkey species that is found across India. They have the widest geographic range among non-human primates as they are found in south, central and south-east Asia. They have been widely used in science as model animals ..

Intranasal vaccine

Intranasal vaccine is an uncommon type of vaccine where it is administered in solution form via the nostril. It is sprayed into the nostril and is inhaled for uptake- instead of the usual intramuscular or subcutaneous routes of administration. It ..

Oversight Board

Facebook’s Oversight Board decides what content to take down or leave up on the social media platform. Its members include experts from various fields like law, technology and digital rights. The aim of the board is to ‘promote free expression’ ..

Kadison Singer problem

Kadison Singer problem is a decade old question in mathematics that asks whether unique information can be obtained from a system in which only certain features can be measured or observed. For solving this question, posed in 1959, Indian mathematician ..

Himachal Pradesh Statehood Day

Himachal Pradesh observes its statehood day on January 25. It became the 18th stateof India in the year 1971. It came to being in 1948 as centrally administered territory after the integration of 30 erstwhile princely states. This year, the ..