About NRA Last year, the central government announced it has decided to set up a common recruitment body called National Recruitment Agency (NRA). The Agency aims to conduct a single online ‘Common Eligibility Test’ or CET, the scores of which …
The RBI uses the PCA framework to keep track on banks with poor financial performance. The PCA framework was introduced by the RBI in 2002 as a structured early-intervention mechanism for banks that have become undercapitalized or fragile due to …
Why in News: Chinese astronauts successfully performed the country’s first tandem spacewalk on the outside of the new Tiangong station in orbit around the Earth. China’s Space Station: The multi-module Tiangong station is set to be operational for at least …
About APEDA The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) was established by the Government of India under the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority Act,1985. The Authority replaced the Processed Food Export Promotion Council (PFEPC). …
About the Scheme The Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) is meant to enable Members of Parliament to recommend works of developmental nature with emphasis on creation of durable community assets based on locally felt needs to be …
About ISA International Solar Alliance (ISA) was launched in 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former President of France Francois Hollande at the 21st session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-21) in Paris, France. …
What’s in the news? India has launched ‘E-Amrit’, a web portal on electric vehicles (EVs), at the ongoing COP26 Summit in Glasgow, UK. E-Amrit is a one-stop destination for all information on electric vehicles—busting myths around the adoption of EVs, …
A corporate bond is a type of debt security that is issued by a firm and sold to investors. The company gets the capital it needs and in return the investor is paid a pre-established number of interest payments at …
CONTEXT Recent judgment of the Supreme Court of India, has immense potential to reclaim the idea of personal liberty and human dignity. In Thwaha Fasal vs Union of India, the Court has acted in its introspective jurisdiction and deconstructed the …
What’s in the news? Delhi-based not-for-profit policy research institution Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) has released its first-of-its-kind district-level climate vulnerability assessment, or Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI), in which it has analysed 640 districts in India to assess …