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Bio pesticides are certain types of pesticides derived from such natural materials as animals, plants, bacteria, and certain minerals.
These are used to control weeds, insects and several diseases.

The pink bollworm is an insect known for being a pest in cotton farming. The adult is a small, thin, gray moth with fringed wings. The larva is a dull white caterpillar with eight pairs of legs with conspicuous pink banding along its dorsum. The larva reaches one half inch in length.
Fall Armyworm (FAW), prefers maize but can also feed on more than 80 other crops, including rice, sorghum, millet, sugarcane, vegetable crops and cotton.
Magnaporthe grisea (Rice blast ).

Crispr-Cas9 was adopted from the naturally occuring genome editing system in bacteria. The bacteria capture snippets of DNA from invading viruses and use them to create DNA segments known as CRISPR arrays.The CRISPR arrays allow the bacteria to remember  the viruses.

Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, is a mosquito that can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, Mayaro and yellow fever viruses.
Malaria is caused by a one-celled parasite called a Plasmodium. Female Anopheles mosquitoes pick up the parasite from infected people when they bite to obtain blood needed to nurture their eggs. Inside the mosquito the parasites reproduce and develop.

Alagh Committee (1979): In 1979, a task force constituted by the Planning Commission for the purpose of poverty estimation, chaired by YK Alagh, constructed a poverty line for rural and urban areas on the basis of nutritional requirements.
Lakdawala Committee (1993): In 1993, an expert group constituted to review methodology for poverty estimation, chaired by DT Lakdawala
Tendulkar Committee (2009): In 2005, another expert group to review methodology for poverty estimation, chaired by Suresh Tendulkar
Rangarajan Committee: In 2012, the Planning Commission constituted a new expert panel on poverty estimation

The Food Corporation of India was setup under the Food Corporation’s Act 1964 , in order to fulfil following objectives of the Food Policy:

FCI has hired storage capacities from Central Warehousing Corporation, State Warehousing Corporations, State Agencies and Private Parties for short term as well as for guaranteed period under Private Entrepreneurs Guarantee Scheme.

Rice production is estimated at 115.6 million tonnes.
Oilseeds production is estimated at 31.5 million tonnes
Sugarcane production at 380.83 million tonnes, Cotton at 30.09 million tonnes

Manipur Protection from Mob violence Act, 2018: In December 2018, Manipur became the first state to pass a remarkable law against lynching or Protection from Mob Violence Act.
Rajasthan is the second state after Manipur to have a law to deal with mob lynching.

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Electronically transmitted Postal Ballot System (ETPBS) is developed by Election Commission of India with the help of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), for the use of the Service Voters. It is a fully secured system, having two layers of security. Secrecy is maintained through the use of OTP and PIN and no duplication of casted Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot (ETPB) is possible due to the unique QR Code.
Class of Electors who are eligible for ETPBS
· Service Voters, other than those who opt for proxy voting (Classified Service Voters)
· The wife of a Service Voter who ordinarily resides with him
· Overseas Voters.