What’s in the news? The Reserve Bank of India has released its National Strategy for Financial Education (NSFE): 2020-2025 document. The multi-stakeholder led approach is aimed at creating a financially aware and empowered India. This NSFE for the period 2020-2025, …
Context The Lt. Governor’s acts have not been in consonance with the Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in the prosecutor’s appointment in the Delhi riot case. Background On 4th July 2018, the five-judge Bench unanimously held that the Chief Minister is …
About UAE The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation of seven states: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Umm al-Qaiwain, Fujairah, Ajman and Ra’s al-Khaimah. Four-fifths of the UAE is desert. Each emirate is governed by a ruler; together, they jointly …
About EU The European Union (EU) is a unique economic and political union between 27 European countries. The United Kingdom, which had been a founding member of the EU, left the organization in 2020. The EU was created by the …
About the scheme Samagra Shiksha is an overarching programme for the school education sector extending from pre-school to class 12. The scheme has been prepared with the broader goal of improving school effectiveness measured in terms of equal opportunities for …
About Hindu Succession Act, 1956 The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 governed succession and inheritance of property but recognised only males as legal heirs. The law applied to everyone who is not a Muslim, Christian, Parsi or Jew by religion. Buddhists, …
What’s in the news? The RBI has released a framework for setting up of a new umbrella entity for retail payments in the country including net and Aadhar-based payments and remittances as well as ATMs and point of sale payment …
Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the centre will launch Project Lion and Project Dolphin using modern technology to replicate the success of Project Tiger. Lion and Dolphin are very important species of the ecosystem and it maintains a …
What’s in the news? The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has launched the e-portal on tribal health and nutrition named ‘Swasthya’. The portal provides all health and nutrition related information of the tribal population of India on a single platform. Swasthya …
About Hindustani music is one of the two principal Indian classical music traditions (the other being Carnatic). Though Indian music dates back to vedic age, the divergence into two systems occurred around the 13th-14th centuries. In contrast to Carnatic music, …