UPSC Current Affairs Concepts in News
 To enhance the IAS Exam Preparation, we have launched a new section called “Concept in News” where IAS aspirants can find all the major concepts that were mentioned in the news.
It is a well-known fact that current affairs stand as the backbone for  UPSC Civil Services Exams. UPSC Current affairs being the benchmark for gauging the general awareness of the IAS aspirant, he/she has to have a thorough understanding of the events appearing in the news. However, there is a confusion on how to read the newspaper when it comes UPSC Exam.  The “Concept in News” page is updated every fortnight. To know read more click on the below links.
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A cluster bomb or cluster munition is a term heard in the news with regard to weapons and weapons systems. In this article, you can learn all...
Asian Clearing Union (ACU) is a payment settlement forum whereby the participants settle payments for transactions that take place within the...
The Government of India set up a Committee on Higher Education under the Ministry of Human Resource Development known as the Yashpal Committee. ...
The Shailesh Nayak Committee was constituted in 2014 with the mandate of examining the issues of the coastal states and union territories of the...
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, Rio Summit, Rio Conference,...
The MSCI World is a stock market index of 1,643'world' stocks. It is maintained by MSCI Inc., formerly Morgan Stanley Capital International, and...
After the terrible massacre at Jallianwala Bagh on 13th April, 1919, the Legislative Council of the government of India constituted the Hunter...
If an economy is running a current account deficit, it is absorbing (absorption = domestic consumption + investment + government spending) more...
The Strategic Debt Restructuring (SDR) has been introduced with a view to ensuring more stake of promoters in reviving stressed accounts and...
Helicopter Money, also popularly known as the helicopter drop is an unconventional and a hypothetical monetary policy tool involving the printing...
Geothermal energy is the thermal energy generated and stored in the earth. It is the thermal energy generated from radioactive decay and...
Kharif crops or monsoon crops are domesticated plants cultivated and harvested during the rainy (monsoon) season in South Asia, which lasts...
Bay of Bengal Boundary Layer Experiment (BoBBLE) tries to determine, quantify and model ocean-atmosphere interactions that drive variability in...
Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets also known as S4A Scheme was launched on 13th June 2016 by the Reserve Bank of India as an...
VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) is a technology that is used for effective communication in remote areas using Satellites and components...
A leverage ratio is one of several financial measurements that glances at how much capital comes in the form of debt (loans) or weighs the...
Basel Norm III is also known as the Third Basel Accord or Basel Standards. It is a regulatory framework followed on a voluntary basis on a global...
The National Investment & Manufacturing Zones (NIMZs) are an important instrumentality of the manufacturing policy. The NIMZ policy aims to...
Juno is a space probe by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) that is currently orbiting the planet Jupiter. It was launched on...
Army Design Bureau (ADB) is an organization that is responsible for all the research and development work carried out for the procurement of...
