NEWS It is time to formulate a wage employment-based national urban livelihood scheme similar to MGNREGS. CONTEXT During the pandemic, people around the globe faced, again and again the difficult choice of saving lives versus protecting livelihoods. AS PER THE …
About It is a joint military exercise between India and Russia. The aim of the exercise was to acquaint each other with operational planning, procedures, combat drills and conducting joint operations against international terrorist groups. What’s in the news? The …
What’s in the news? The Government has announced that India’s total installed renewable energy capacity has crossed the mile-stone of 100 GigaWatts (GW). This assumes importance given that India has a total installed power generation capacity of 383.73 GW. Today …
What is it? It is the maiden bilateral naval exercise between India and Saudi Arabia. The exercise aims to undertake co-ordinated action against asymmetric threat, replenishment at sea procedures, anti-piracy and boarding operations. Why in News: India, Saudi Arabia began …
About Elephants There are two species of elephants, African and Asian, and while they are similar in physiology, they are too biologically different to interbreed. According to IUCN, the Asian elephant is classified as endangered with less than 40,000 remaining …
NEWS Going by past experiences and historic ruptures, there is hope for global trade recovery in the post-COVID-19 world. CONTEXT Last year, countries around the world responded to COVID-19 pandemic-induced shortages with protectionist reactions and nationalist aspirations. This resulted in …
About PMGSY The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), was launched in 2000 as centrally sponsored scheme to provide connectivity to unconnected habitations of designated population size (500+ in plain areas and 250+ in North-East, hill, tribal and desert areas …
About SEZs Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a geographic area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. The objective of developing SEZs include increasing the balance of trade and attracting newer inward-investments …
About the act The Consumer Protection Act, 2019 aims to provide for protection of the interests of consumers and for the said purpose, to establish authorities for timely and effective administration and settlement of consumers’ disputes and for matters connected …
What’s in the news? In a step towards decriminalising politics, the Supreme Court held eight political parties guilty of contempt of court for not making public criminal records of their poll candidates. The court directed that political parties must publish …