by Team Spectrum Books | Oct 17, 2022 | Miscellany
On October 3, 2022, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Swedish academic Svante Paabo, a geneticist of Estonian descent who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics, for his discovery concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. The...
by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 9, 2022 | Miscellany
A recent position paper by the Karnataka government on the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, has claimed that the Pythagoras theorem was already known to Indians from the Vedic times. A position paper is an essay that presents an arguable opinion about an issue....
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 25, 2022 | Miscellany
—By Charu Latha According to the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE), critical information infrastructure (CII) is that infrastructure which is essential for the maintenance of vital societal functions, such as health, safety, security, economic or social...
by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 23, 2022 | Miscellany
At the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022, Indian alpine skier Arif Mohammad Khan, the 31-year-old from Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir became the first Indian athlete to earn a quota place. He is the only Indian skier to have ever qualified for both the events...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 9, 2020 | International Affairs, Miscellany
The term ‘Blue Wall’ politically refers to 18 US States and the District of Columbia, won consistently by Democrats in presidential elections between 1992-2012, except George W. Bush, who narrowly won the electoral college in 2000 and 2004 outside the blue wall. Again...
by Team Spectrum Books | Nov 11, 2020 | Miscellany
There are many Great Walks in New Zeland. The New Zealand Great Walks are a set of popular tramping tracks which are created for long-distance walks in the rough country side. These Great Walks are premier tracks which pass through diverse and spectacular scenery....
