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33 entries- Absolute Liability Principle (Oleum Gas Leak case)
- Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) under the Biological Diversity Act
- Accommodative Monetary Stance
- Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL)
- Aditya-L1 Payloads (VELC, SUIT)
- Advance Pricing Agreement (APA)
- Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR)
- Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA)
- Advisory Board (Preventive Detention)
- AFSPA (Jammu and Kashmir) Act 1990
- Agni-IV Missile
- Agni-P (Agni-Prime) Missile
- Agni-Prime Missile
- Agni-V Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
- Agro-Climatic Zones of India
- Aichi Biodiversity Targets
- Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1981
- Akash Surface-to-Air Missile System
- Akash-NG (New Generation) Missile
- Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
- Anusandhan National Research Foundation (NRF)
- Arjun Main Battle Tank
- Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA)
- Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG)
- Asiatic Lion Conservation Project (Gir)
- Assam Rifles
- Asset Reconstruction Company (ARC)
- Astra Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile
- AstroSat
- Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan
- Atomic Energy Act, 1962
- Automatic Stabilisers
- Aviation Research Centre (ARC)
B
40 entries- Ballistic Missile Defence Programme (PAD/AAD)
- Bandipur Tiger Reserve
- Bank Nationalisation of 1969
- Bank Rate
- Bank Recapitalisation Bonds
- Banking Regulation Act, 1949
- Banks Board Bureau (BBB)
- Barak-8 (LR-SAM/MR-SAM)
- Base Editing
- Base Rate
- Basel Ban Amendment
- Basel III Norms
- Bastar–Dantewada Conflict Zone
- Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR)
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
- Bharat Small Reactor (BSR)
- Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam (BHAVINI)
- Bhitarkanika National Park
- Biodiversity Hotspots of India
- Biodiversity Management Committees
- Biological Diversity (Amendment) Act 2023
- Biomagnification
- Biosimilars
- Biotech-KISAN
- Black Cat Commandos (NSG)
- Black Soil Cotton Belt (Deccan)
- Blue Revolution
- Bombay Plan (1944)
- Bonn Challenge
- Border Area Development Programme (BADP)
- Border Security Force (BSF)
- Botanical Survey of India (BSI)
- BrahMos Cruise Missile (India-Russia Joint Venture)
- BrahMos Missile
- Breeder Reactor
- Bru-Reang Agreement (2020)
- Bt Brinjal
- Bt Cotton
- Budget Deficit
- Business Correspondent Model
C
58 entries- Cali Fund (Digital Sequence Information)
- Call Money Market
- Capital Expenditure
- Capital Receipts
- Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
- Cartosat Series
- Cash Crops versus Food Crops
- CE-20 Cryogenic Engine
- Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF)
- Central Asian Flyway
- Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
- Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)
- Central GST (CGST)
- Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
- Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)
- Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
- Central Zoo Authority
- CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team)
- Cess
- Chandrayaan-1
- Chandrayaan-2
- Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)
- Chilika Lake
- CITES Appendix I
- CITES Appendix II
- CITES Appendix III
- Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010
- CMS Appendix I
- CMS COP13 Gandhinagar
- Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification
- Coastal Security Scheme
- Coffee Cultivation Belt (Karnataka)
- Committee of Creditors (CoC)
- Communist Party of India (Maoist)
- Community Forest Resource Rights
- Community Reserve
- Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act 2016
- Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA)
- Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT)
- Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS)
- Consent to Establish and Consent to Operate
- Conservation Reserve
- Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation
- Contingency Fund of India
- Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC)
- Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS)
- Corbett Tiger Reserve
- Core Banking Solution (CBS)
- Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP)
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- Crew Escape System (CES)
- CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
- Critical Information Infrastructure
- Critical Wildlife Habitat
- Crop Rotation
- Cryogenic Engine
- Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS)
- Cyber Swachhta Kendra
D
30 entries- Dawood Ibrahim and D-Company
- De-radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation
- Decentralised Planning and Bottom-Up Approach
- Deepor Beel
- Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020
- Defence Cyber Agency
- Defence Industrial Corridors (UP and Tamil Nadu)
- Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA)
- Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL)
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
- Deficit Financing
- Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
- Department of Military Affairs
- Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC)
- Differentiated Banking Licence
- Direct Tax Code (DTC)
- Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI)
- Dirty Dozen (Initial POPs)
- Disturbed Area Declaration (AFSPA)
- Disturbed Areas Act
- Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT)
- DMH-11 (GM Mustard)
- DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill
- DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2019
- Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs)
- Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA)
- DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation)
- Dryland and Rainfed Farming
- Dugong (Dugong dugon)
- Durand Line
E
16 entries- e-NAM (National Agriculture Market)
- E-Waste (Management) Rules 2022
- E-Way Bill
- Eco-Sensitive Zone
- Eco-Sensitive Zones (ESZ)
- Effective Revenue Deficit
- Endemic Species
- Enforcement Directorate (ED)
- Environmental Impact Assessment Notification 2006
- Equalisation Levy
- Eutrophication
- Ex-situ Conservation
- Expenditure Budget and Receipt Budget
- Export Preparedness Index
- Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
- External Benchmark Lending Rate (EBLR)
F
21 entries- Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO)
- Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR)
- FATF 40 Recommendations
- FATF Grey List (Increased Monitoring List)
- Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND)
- Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC)
- Finger Area, Pangong Tso
- Fiscal Consolidation
- Fiscal Drag
- Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003
- Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003
- Fiscal Stimulus
- Five Year Plans
- Flagship Species
- Flexible Inflation Targeting Framework
- Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999
- Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980
- Fourth Schedule UAPA (Designation of Individual Terrorists)
- FRBM Escape Clause
- FRBM Fiscal Deficit Target of 3% of GDP
- Free Movement Regime (India-Myanmar)
G
36 entries- GAGAN (GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation)
- Gaganyaan Mission
- Gaganyaan Test Vehicle TV-D1
- Gandhian Plan (1944)
- Gangetic River Dolphin
- Gee's Golden Langur
- Gene Drive
- Gene Therapy
- General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR)
- Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC)
- Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)
- Genome India Project
- Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)
- Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus)
- Gir National Park
- Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership (GCNEP)
- Global Minimum Corporate Tax
- Golden Rice
- Goods and Services Tax (GST)
- Governing Council of NITI Aayog
- Gram Sabha under the Forest Rights Act
- Grants-in-Aid to States
- Gravitational Waves
- Great Green Wall Initiative
- Great Himalayan National Park
- Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps)
- Green Revolution in India
- Greyhounds (Anti-Naxal Force)
- Gross NPA versus Net NPA
- Gross Tax Revenue
- GSAT Satellite Series
- GSLV Mk III (LVM3)
- GST Compensation Cess
- GST Composition Scheme
- GST Network (GSTN)
- Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve
H
10 entries- HAL Tejas Light Combat Aircraft
- Hawala (Informal Value Transfer System)
- Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules 2016
- Headline and Core Inflation
- HELINA / Dhruvastra Anti-Tank Missile
- Homi J. Bhabha
- Human Genome Project
- Human Trafficking
- Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM)
- Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV)
I
48 entries- iDEX (Innovations for Defence Excellence)
- Imperative Planning
- Important Bird and Biodiversity Area
- In-situ Conservation
- IN-SPACe and NewSpace India Limited (NSIL)
- Income Tax Act, 1961
- India Debt Resolution Company Ltd (IDRCL)
- India-Bangladesh Enclaves (Chhitmahals)
- India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement
- India's Additional Protocol with IAEA
- India's No First Use Nuclear Doctrine
- India's Nuclear Triad
- Indian Coast Guard
- Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C)
- Indian Mujahideen (IM)
- Indian One-Horned Rhinoceros
- Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL)
- Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)
- Indian Rhino Vision 2020
- Indian Space Policy 2023
- Indicative Planning
- IndiGen Genome Project
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR)
- Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)
- Information Technology Act, 2000
- Inner Line Permit (ILP)
- Input Tax Credit (ITC)
- INS Arihant
- INS Vikrant (Indigenous Aircraft Carrier)
- INSAT System
- Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)
- Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016
- Integrated Check Post, Attari
- Integrated GST (IGST)
- Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP)
- Intelligence Bureau (IB)
- Intensive and Extensive Farming
- Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- International Border (IB)
- International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP/ISIS-K)
- IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021
- ITER and India's Participation
- IUCN Critically Endangered (CR) Category
- IUCN Extinct in the Wild (EW) Category
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- IUCN Vulnerable (VU) Category
J
8 entriesK
14 entries- K-15 Sagarika Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile
- K-4 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile
- Kanha Tiger Reserve
- Karbi Anglong Agreement (2021)
- Kargil Review Committee
- Kaziranga National Park
- Keibul Lamjao National Park
- Keoladeo Ghana Ramsar Site
- Keoladeo National Park
- Keystone Species
- Keystone Species Concept in Conservation
- Kharif Cropping Season
- Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
- Kulasekarapattinam Spaceport
L
10 entriesM
23 entries- M. S. Swaminathan
- Madhukar Gupta Committee on Border Protection
- Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA)
- Make in India Initiative
- Manas National Park
- Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission)
- Mangalyaan-2 (Mars Orbiter Mission 2)
- Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate (MCLR)
- Marginal Cost of Funds Based Lending Rate (MCLR)
- Marginal Standing Facility (MSF)
- Market Stabilisation Scheme (MSS)
- Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan)
- Minamata Disease
- Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT)
- Mission Shakti (Anti-Satellite Test)
- Mixed and Multiple Cropping
- Mizo Accord (1986)
- Monetary Policy Framework Agreement 2015
- Monetised Deficit
- Money Multiplier
- Montreux Record
- Multi-Agency Centre (MAC)
- Multilateral Fund (Montreal Protocol)
N
56 entries- N.K. Singh FRBM Review Committee
- Nachiket Mor Committee
- Nag Anti-Tank Guided Missile
- Naga Peace Accord Framework Agreement (2015)
- Naga People's Movement of Human Rights v. Union of India (AFSPA case)
- Nandini Sundar v. State of Chhattisgarh (2011)
- Narco-Terrorism
- Naresh Chandra Task Force on National Security
- Narrow Money and Broad Money (M1, M3)
- National Anti-Profiteering Authority (NAA)
- National Asset Reconstruction Company Limited (NARCL)
- National Committee for Strengthening Maritime and Coastal Security (NCSMCS)
- National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT)
- National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC)
- National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC)
- National Cyber Security Policy 2013
- National Cyber Security Strategy
- National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP)
- National DNA Data Bank
- National Environment Tribunal Act 1995
- National Green Tribunal Act 2010
- National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research
- National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP)
- National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID)
- National Investigation Agency (NIA)
- National Investigation Agency Act, 2008
- National Maritime Domain Awareness (NMDA)
- National Monetisation Pipeline (NITI Aayog)
- National Planning Committee (1938)
- National Security Act, 1980 (NSA)
- National Security Council (India)
- National Security Guard (NSG)
- National Supercomputing Mission
- National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)
- National Wildlife Action Plan
- NavIC (IRNSS)
- NavIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation)
- Naxalbari Uprising (1967)
- Net Tax Revenue
- NexCAR19
- Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
- Nilgiri Tahr
- Nirbhay Subsonic Cruise Missile
- NITI Aayog Health Index
- NITI Aayog National Multidimensional Poverty Index
- No Money for Terror (NMFT) Ministerial Conference
- Nokrek Biosphere Reserve
- Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC)
- Non-Performing Assets (NPA)
- Norman Borlaug
- NSCN-IM
- NSG Waiver of 2008
- Nuclear Command Authority (India)
- Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), Hyderabad
- Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL)
- Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL)
O
8 entriesP
48 entries- P. C. Mahalanobis
- P.J. Nayak Committee
- Payments Bank
- People's Biodiversity Register
- People's Plan (1945)
- Periyar Tiger Reserve
- Permanent Account Number (PAN)
- Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
- Perspective Planning
- Pinaka Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher System
- Plantation Agriculture
- Plastic Waste Management Rules 2016
- Plutonium-239
- Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary
- Pokhran-I (Smiling Buddha, 1974)
- Pokhran-II (Operation Shakti, 1998)
- Pokhran-II (Operation Shakti) Nuclear Tests 1998
- Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)
- Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)
- Policy Rate Corridor
- Popular Front of India (PFI) Ban
- Positive Indigenisation List
- Post-Devolution Revenue Deficit Grants
- Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana
- Pragyan Rover
- Prahaar Tactical Missile
- Pre-Packaged Insolvency Resolution Process
- Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR)
- Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA)
- Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA)
- Preventive Detention under Article 22
- Primary Deficit
- Prime Editing
- Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure
- Prithvi Missile
- Project Cheetah (Kuno National Park)
- Project Dolphin
- Project Elephant
- Project Lion
- Project Snow Leopard
- Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) Framework
- Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR), Kalpakkam
- Provisional Attachment of Property under PMLA
- Provisioning Coverage Ratio (PCR)
- PSLV-XL Configuration
- Public Account of India
- Public Debt
- Pygmy Hog (Porcula salvania)
Q
1 entryR
21 entries- Rabi Cropping Season
- Ramsar Wetland City Accreditation
- Ransomware
- Rashtriya Rifles
- Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER)
- Red Corridor
- Regional Councils of NITI Aayog
- Repo Linked Lending Rate (RLLR)
- Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)
- Reserve Money (M0)
- Retrospective Taxation
- Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV-TD / Pushpak)
- Revenue Deficit
- Revenue Expenditure
- Revenue Receipts
- Reverse Repo Rate
- Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation (RCGM)
- RISAT Series (Radar Imaging Satellites)
- RNA Interference (Gene Silencing)
- Road Connectivity Project for LWE Affected Areas (RCPLWEA)
- Rolling Plan
S
52 entries- Sagar Prahari Bal
- Salwa Judum
- SAMADHAN Doctrine
- Sambhar Lake
- Sangai (Manipur Brow-Antlered Deer)
- SARFAESI Act, 2002
- Sariska Tiger Reserve
- Sarvodaya Plan (1950)
- Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota
- Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act
- School Education Quality Index
- Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP)
- Second Green Revolution (Eastern India)
- Section 66A of the IT Act (Shreya Singhal case)
- Securities Transaction Tax (STT)
- Security Related Expenditure (SRE) Scheme
- Shekatkar Committee on Defence Reforms
- Shifting Cultivation (Jhum)
- Shillong Accord (1975)
- Shiv Shakti Point
- Shukla Commission on Border Area Development
- Silent Valley National Park
- Simlipal Biosphere Reserve
- Sir Creek Dispute
- Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
- Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)
- Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)
- SMART (Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo)
- Smart Fence Project
- Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia)
- Soil Health Card Scheme
- Solid Waste Management Rules 2016
- Special Protection Group (SPG)
- Species Recovery Programme for Great Indian Bustard
- SRIJAN Defence Indigenisation Portal
- Standing Deposit Facility (SDF)
- State GST (SGST)
- State Pollution Control Board
- Stem Cell Therapy
- Sterilisation of Forex Flows
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
- Stressed Assets Restructuring
- Subsistence Farming
- Sugarcane Belt of India
- Sundarban Wetland Ramsar Site
- Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve
- Sundarbans National Park
- Sundarbans Tiger Reserve
- Surcharge
- Surplus and Deficit Liquidity Conditions
- Surrender-cum-Rehabilitation Policy for LWE Cadres
T
22 entries- TAPAS-BH-201 (Rustom) UAV
- Tarapur Atomic Power Station
- Tax Buoyancy
- Tax Deducted at Source (TDS)
- Tax Elasticity
- Tax Expenditure (Revenue Foregone)
- Tax-to-GDP Ratio
- Tea Cultivation Belt (Assam and Darjeeling)
- Team India Hub (NITI Aayog)
- Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA)
- Terror Funding and Fake Currency (TFFC) Cell, NIA
- Theatre Command (Integrated Tri-Service Commands)
- Theatre Commands
- Thorium Fuel Cycle
- Thorium Reserves of India (Monazite Sands)
- Three Year Action Agenda
- Three-Stage Nuclear Power Programme
- Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS)
- Transnational Organised Crime
- Trishul Missile
- Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-17)
- Twin Balance Sheet Problem
U
17 entries- U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC)
- U.K. Sinha Committee on MSMEs
- UAPA (Amendment) Act, 2019
- UAPA (Amendment) Act, 2019
- Umbrella Species
- UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Convention)
- UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
- UNCCD COP14 New Delhi
- Union of India v. Mohit Minerals (2022)
- United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
- Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA)
- Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA)
- Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal
- Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL)
- Uranium-233
- Urjit Patel Committee
V
7 entries- Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Adhiniyam / Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act 2023
- Variable Rate Repo and Reverse Repo
- Vibrant Villages Programme
- Vijay Madanlal Choudhary v. Union of India (PMLA Judgment)
- Visvesvaraya's Planned Economy for India (1934)
- Vivad se Vishwas Scheme
- Vodafone International v. Union of India (2012)
