IAS NOVA Editorial Team

This list is in addition to the 500 list . 1. Corals Cyclone disturbances in April and May this year assisted faster coral recovery in the Gulf of Mannar. Studies showed that the corals were significantly healthier than what is…

1.ITER It is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject, which will be the world’s largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment. It is an experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor that is being built next to the Cadarache facility in…

1.Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and Carbon Pricing Article 6 of the Paris Agreement aims at promoting integrated, holistic and balanced approaches that will assist governments in implementing their NDCs through voluntary international cooperation. This cooperation mechanism, if properly…

Following  Acts and Topics should be done from Polity Books : 1. Representation of the People Act, 1951 2. Right to Information Act, 2005 3. Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 4. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest…

1.Credit Rating Agencies SEBI came up with set of wider disclosure norms for the Credit Rating Agencies (CRA). It introduced a “probability of default” mechanism under which rating agencies have to disclose the probability of default for the issuers they…

1.National Green Tribunal It is a specialised body set up under the National Green Tribunal Act (2010) for effective and expeditious disposal of cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural resources. Structure The Tribunal comprises…

1. Plasma Therapy ‘Plasma’ is the liquid component in the blood that carries antibodies, hormones and various nutrients across the body. Plasma is the largest part of  blood. It, makes up more than half (about 55%) of its overall content.…

1. Sowa-Rigpa (Knowledge of Healing or Science of Healing) The term Sowa-Rigpa is derived from Bhoti language which means “Knowledge of Healing’. It is an ancient Indian medical system conceived and propounded by Lord Buddha in India. The principle medical…

1. Compulsory Licensing Compulsory Licensing (CL) allows governments to license third parties (that is, parties other than the patent holders) to produce and market a patented product or process without the consent of patent owners. Any time after three years from date of…

1. Central Asian Flyway The Central Asian Flyway (CAF) is a flyway covering a large continental area of Eurasia between the Arctic Ocean and the Indian Ocean and the associated island chains. The CAF comprises several important migration routes of waterbirds, most of which extend from the northernmost breeding grounds in Siberia to…

1.Swayam Prabha SWAYAM Prabha is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resources Development to provide 32 High Quality Educational Channels through DTH (Direct to Home) across the length and breadth of the country on 24X7 basis. It has curriculum-based…

1.Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT)  Once it is built, the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) will become one of the world’s largest general-purpose observatories, allowing astronomers to study the outer reaches of the universe and study distant stars and exoplanets than much greater detail…

1.Particularly Vulnerable Tribe Groups of Andaman & Nicobar There are 6 aboriginal tribes in Andaman & Nicobar Islands belonging to two broad groups of Negrito and Mongoloid. Except Nicobarese (Mongoloid), the rest 5 are recognized as Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups…