Governance

A List of Names by WHO for Covid 19 Variants

Since the Covid-19 started rapidly spreading through the global regions in early 2020, new virus variations started coming up.  The Variants had some similarities and dissimilarities in the region where they originated. So, officially, they were referred to as their region of origin or their scientific names.  This practice was highly controversial and received extreme

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Governance, UPSC

A Detailed Note on Indian Gas Exchange

The Indian Gas Exchange Limited (IGX) is India’s first and only natural gas exchange, providing all participants with a national market for gas trading. The Exchange is constructing India’s first pan-India gas trading and portfolio management infrastructure, combining gas supply, requirement, and ability to trade data on a platform that allows participants to monitor, execute,

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Governance, UPSC

75 years of the Bureau of Indian Standards

The headquarters of Bureau of Indian standards is situated in New Delhi, and other regional offices are located in Chennai (southern), Chandigarh (northern), Kolkata (eastern), and Delhi(central). Working under these regional offices lie Branch offices  (BOs). They can be found in the cities of Bhubaneshwar, Parwanoo, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Pune, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Nagpur, Bangalore, Bhopal,

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Governance, UPSC