About The Fit India Quiz is primed to be the first-of-its-kind nation-wide quiz on fitness and sports for school children. The quiz will have representations from every State/UT in the country and will be a mix of online and broadcast …
What’s in the news? India’s exports of Gems and Jewellery shot up by a whopping 71% during the first three quarters of the current Financial Year, April-December 2021(Provisional) over the same period previous year. The sector clocked USD 28.9 Billion …
About Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme It is a tri-ministerial initiative of Ministries of Women and Child Development, Health & Family Welfare and Education with a focus on awareness and advocacy campaign for changing mindsets, multi-sectoral action in select …
About NCM The Union Government set up the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) as a statutory body under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992. Initially five religious communities, viz., Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Zoroastrians (Parsis) were notified as …
Context India’s exports have risen nearly 50 per cent year on year in the first nine months of this fiscal, putting the country on track to hit a target of $400 billion in merchandise exports. India’s imports have also risen …
Why in News: Statue of 11th century reformer and Vaishnavite saint Ramanujacharyulu will be unveiled soon The ‘Statue of Equality’, as it is called, is being installed to mark the 1,000th birth anniversary of Ramanujacharyulu. It is built of Panchaloha, …
About the scheme One District One Product One District One Product (ODOP) scheme was launched by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The objective is to convert each District of the country into an Export Hub by Identifying products with …
What’s in the news? Exports of Engineering Goods jumped to USD 81.8 Billion during April-December 2021 (Provisional) as compared to USD 52.9 Billion during same period in the previous year (2020), registering a stupendous growth of 54%. Engineering Goods sector …
Competition Act, 2002 The Competition Act, 2002, as amended by the Competition (Amendment) Act, 2007, prohibits anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominant position by enterprises and regulates combinations (acquisition, acquiring of control and Mergers and acquisitions), which causes or likely to …
What’s the news? The West Bengal forest department is planning to release another batch of batagur baska, a critically endangered freshwater turtle species, tagged with GPS transmitters in Sundarbans this year to understand its survival and dispersal patterns. Ten batagur …