News of The Day – 15th October 2024

News of The Day – 15th October 2024

SOURCES: The Hindu, Indian Express, Live Mint, Business Standard, Economic Times, and PIB.

• Punishments for Offences Under Sati Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987
• What was the Sati System? 
• Raja Rammohan Roy’s Role in Abolition of Sati

• About Afanasy Nikitin
• About Afanasy Nikitin Seamount (AN Seamount)

• About NSR – North Sea Route
• About North Sea

• Emergence and Growth of Trade Unions – History
• Collective Bargaining 
• About Right to Form a Union

• International Telecommunication Union – World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) 

• About Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
• Themes, headquarter, functions

• Key Highlights of the India-Algeria meet
• Bilateral relations between India-Algeria

• What are the reasons for the increasing heatwaves in Indian cities?
• What are the impacts of the increasing heatwaves in Indian cities?
• Way forward

• About Nitrogen
• How is Nitrogen availed in nature?
• Nitrogen Cycle
• What is Haber Process?

• About Consumer Price Index (CPI) – Retail Inflation
• Weights of Food – Beverage in Various CPI Series
• About the Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI)
• About Wholesale Price Index 

• Notable Work by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A Robinson
• About Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 

• About Europa Clipper Mission
• About Jupiter

• What is Precision Medicine and Biobanks?
• Importance of Biobanks in precision medicine:

• What is Biopolymers
• Application of Biopolymers