GS-II: When India’s interim government was formed in 1946
News
Background
Formation of India’s interim government
The interim cabinet
Source: Indian Express
GS-III: An intensifying whimper that has begun to take a global toll
News
News show signs of another economic crisis and stock market decline.
Background
What is the issue
Way Forward
Source: Live Mint
GS-III: Cryptocurrencies could constrain a country’s choices
CONTEXT
Facebook announced launching a cryptocurrency called Libra, designed to appeal to its global user base of over 2 billion.
Libra
Impossible trinity
Conclusion
Thus the advent of Big Tech cryptocurrencies means that countries would have one less lever to pull.
Source: Live Mint
GS-III: Genome sequencing of bacteria to help with biocontrol in farming.
Bacteria with antimicrobial properties
Obtained from soil
Researchers isolated some strains of actinomycetes (a kind of hairy bacteria) from the forest soils of the Neyyar wildlife sanctuary, one of the 12 mega diversity centres in the world.
One of the isolates was identified as Streptosporangium nondiastaticum reported to have antimicrobial properties.
Source: The Hindu
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