New Delhi: Using a polyphasic methodology, researchers from Banaras Hindu University identified the first new genus of cyanobacteria from the Jammu and Kashmir region. One of the earliest evolved oxygenic photoautotrophic, nitrogen-fixing, and prokaryotic microorganisms that is in ch

New Delhi: According to a formal statement, the goal of this project is to formalise BIS's relationships with prestigious institutions in order to ensure the academia's active participation. BIS has inked an agreement for the establishment of a "BIS Standardization Chair Professor" a

Reading Passage Question To the uninitiated, the world of intellectual property often appears an impenetrable collision of legal, scientific and economic themes. Indeed, the study of intellectual property draws from these three disciplines in a way that our educational and philosophical systems s

Reading Passage Question Step outside on a clear night and look at the sky. If you’re a city dweller or live in a cramped suburb, you see dozens, maybe hundreds, of twinkling stars. Depending on the time of the month, you may also see a full Moon and up to five of the eight planets that rev

Reading Passage Question High-level programming languages must be converted to low-level programming languages using an interpreter or compiler, depending on the language. Interpreted languages are considered more portable than compiled languages, while compiled languages execute faster than inte

Reading Passage Question Any gardener recognizes the value of pollinating insects. Various insects perform an essential service in the production of seed and fruit. The survival of plants depends on pollination. You may not have thought much about the role honey bees play in our everyday food sup

Reading Passage Question It is hard for us to imagine today how utterly different the world of night used to be from the daylight world. Of course, we can still re-create something of that lost mystique. When we sit around a campfire and tell ghost stories, our goosebumps (and our children&

Reading Passage Question This passage is an excerpt from Microeconomics Theory and Applications, 9th Edition, by Edgar K. Browning and Mark A. Zupan (Wiley): In 1980, Washington, D.C., city officials, hard-pressed for tax revenues, levied a 6 percent tax on the sale of gasoline. As a first app

New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi has successfully began its placements, where a total of 474 job offers including 305 pre-placement offers (PPOs) were made to the IIT BHU students on the very first day.  According to IIT BHU, the students were able to gra

New Delhi: Presidency University, Kolkata announces that from this year again there will be entrance exams. To secure a seat in the undergraduate program, students will appear for an admission test. The tests will be held tentatively on May 20 and 21, 2023. After three years, the undergra

New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi is currently accepting applications for admission to its Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program offered under JRF Category for the academic session 2022-23. The last date to apply online is December 04, 2022.  As per JNU Delhi, cand

New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has started the campus placement drive for its MBA students of batch 2020-23 from December 01, 2022. On day two of the placement drive, 32 companies offered students with multiple job profiles till 2 pm. With this, the total number of offers ha

New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras is organising its campus placement drive for the 2022-23 academic year, in which a total of 25 students have received placement packages of more than INR 1 crore from top recruiters.  As per IIT Madras, this year 445 students we

New Delhi: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi has published the common merit list for admission to its DM, MCh and MD Hospital Administration courses in its affiliated colleges. Interested candidates can check the list on its official website at aiimsexams.ac.in. As per

New Delhi: On February 18, 2023, Imarticus Learning and the Indian Institute of Management Raipur (IIM Raipur) will introduce their new executive certificate programme for strategic Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs). IIM Raipur is offering a 10-month curriculum called the new-age

Reading Passage Question The “morning star” isn’t a star; it’s always a planet. And sometimes two Morning Stars appear at once, such as Mercury and Venus. The same idea applies to the “evening star”: You’re seeing a planet, and you may see more than one.

Reading Passage Question Adapted and reprinted with the permission of the author, Jonathan Rappe. So what exactly do we mean when we say “environmental markets” and how are these markets going to impact the business landscape? First, the basics: Anytime a unit of exchange arises fr

Reading Passage Question Various organizations throughout the United States—including government agencies at national, state, and local levels; nonprofit groups; universities; and corporations—have developed hundreds of environmental indicator sets in recent years to address environme

New Delhi: Vindo Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) of IIT Kharagpur will start the admission process for its MBA program for the academic session 2023-25 from the first week of January 2023. Interested candidates can check the complete schedule at som.iitkgp.ac.in. As per VGSoM, interest

Reading Passage Question This passage is excerpted from The Earth Through Time, 7th Edition, by Harold L. Levin (Wiley): Geologists have proposed the term eon for the largest divisions of the geologic time scale. In chronological succession, the eons of geologic time are the Hadean, Archean, P

Reading Passage Question So many accounts of this continent’s past begin with Europeans striding ashore, claiming this “new found land” and its human inhabitants for their respective empires. These arrogant assertions always have been challenged by native peoples, but nonetheles

Reading Passage Question This passage is excerpted from Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture, by David Bollier (Wiley): For millennia, the circulation of music in human societies has been as free as the circulation of air and water; it just comes naturally. Indeed, one of t

Reading Passage Question A logarithmic unit known as the decibel (dB) is used to represent the intensity of sound. The decibel scale is similar to the Richter scale used to measure earthquakes. On the Richter scale, a 7.0 earthquake is ten times stronger than a 6.0 earthquake. On the decibel scal

Reading Passage Question Marcus Sheridan is one of three owners of River Pools and Spa in Warsaw, Virginia. The company installs swimming pools and hot tubs throughout Maryland and Virginia. Since joining the business in 2002, Marcus has spearheaded tremendous growth at the company. Despite years

Reading Passage Question Once found, archeological deposits must be carefully examined and meticulously recorded. Their form, content, and function may be difficult to interpret. Precise determinations of site boundaries, artefact type and style, feature function, and site condition almost always

Reading Passage Question Natural hazards are the price we pay for living on an active planet. The tectonic plate subduction producing Japan’s rugged Tohoku coast gives rise to earthquakes and tsunamis. Florida’s warm sunny weather results from the processes in the ocean and atmosphere

Reading Passage Question Nature is crammed with devices to protect and maintain the organism against the stress of the environment. Any structural feature that is useful because of its construction is a structural adaptation; when such adaptations are given, the mechanist has, for the most part,

Reading Passage Question The world of Minecraft is made of cubic blocks, materials such as dirt or stone that you can break down and rebuild into houses or craft into useful items. A block made of a material such as sand is referred to as a sand block. Because the side length of every block measu

New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati has started its campus placement drive for graduating students from December 02, 2022 (today). So far, a total of 168 offers have been made to students by 46 recruiters on campus ground. As per IIT Guwahati, students have recei

Reading Passage Question Researchers, educators, and policymakers generally agree that school readiness is a multidimensional concept that includes cognitive, executive functioning, language, socioemotional, behavioral, and health characteristics that contribute to children’s ability to ada