About The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established in 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and coordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. …
What’s in the news? A UK-based tribunal has found that China has committed genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. The Uyghur Tribunal cited birth control and sterilization measures allegedly carried out by China against the Uyghurs. The Chinese state …
About the scheme POSHAN Abhiyaan (also known as National Nutrition Mission) is a flagship programme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development that aims to improve nutrition amongst children, pregnant women, and lactating mothers. Launched in 2018, it is …
About Goods and Services Tax (GST) Goods and Services Tax, an institutional tax innovation intensively marketed in many countries by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Goods and Services Tax (GST) is an indirect tax (or consumption tax) …
Context This article describes how far we have managed to dissuade households from biomass and what more we need to do as a country to move further. LPG- Primary cooking fuel As per the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, …
About the Scheme Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme is a tri-ministerial initiative of Ministries of Women and Child Development, Health & Family Welfare and Human Resource which focuses on awareness and advocacy campaign for changing mind-sets, multi-sectoral action, enabling …
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. …
About CAMPA CAMPA (Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority) is a well-defined act brought by the Government of India to compensate for the loss of forest area and to maintain the sustainability. In 2002, the Supreme Court had observed …
Context The Union Health & Family Welfare Ministry is taking measures to spread awareness about the “National Policy for Rare Diseases 2021”. What is a rare disease? A rare disease is a health condition of low prevalence that affects a …