About The Grameen Udyami Scheme was launched to augment skill training in tribal communities for their inclusive and sustainable growth. Under the programme, the endeavor is to multi skill India’s youth and impart functional skills to them for enabling livelihoods. …
What’s in the news? The India-Bangladesh Friendship pipeline (IBFPL) will start supplying diesel to Bangladesh on an experimental basis from June this year. IBFPL is a 131.5 kilometre long pipeline that has been constructed for importing diesel from India. Out …
About NFSA The National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA) provides for food and nutritional security in the country, by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices for people to live a life with dignity. The Act …
What is a rare disease? A rare disease is a health condition of low prevalence that affects a small number of people compared with other prevalent diseases in the general population. Rare diseases include genetic diseases, rare cancers, infectious tropical …
Convention on Biological Diversity Signed by 150 government leaders at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is dedicated to promoting sustainable development. Conceived as a practical tool for translating the principles of Agenda 21 into …
What’s in the news? The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) began at Davos in Switzerland with heads of state and business leaders focusing on the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and economic instability amid climate change. The meeting will …
About the Initiative Mission LiFE is a global initiative by India to help the world in its fight against climate change and lead to a sustainable way of life to achieve the sustainable development goals set by the U.N. Mission …
What’s in the news? The 21st Edition of the Bilateral Naval Exercise between India and France – Exercise Varuna commenced recently. While the bilateral exercise between the two navies were initiated in 1993, it was christened as ‘VARUNA’ in 2001 …
About WPI Wholesale Price Index measures and tracks the changes in the price of goods in the stages before the retail level. It provides estimates of inflation at the wholesale transaction level for the economy as a whole. WPI basket …
About IMF The International Monetary Fund was conceived in 1944 at the United Nations Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire, United States. The IMF and the World Bank are called Bretton Woods twins. The IMF is a permanent observer at …