About The Raisina Dialogue is India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics, held annually since 2016. The conference is hosted by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs. ORF is an independent global think …
About The Prime Minister’s Internship Scheme (PMIS Scheme) announced in the Union Budget 2024-25, aims to provide internship opportunities to one crore youth in top 500 companies in five years. As an initiation to this Scheme, the Pilot Project targeted …
About WPI Wholesale Price Index (WPI) 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 …
About GeM Launched in 2016, the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is a 100 percent government-owned company setup under the aegis of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It is a completely paperless, cashless and system driven e-market place that enables procurement …
About ASEAN The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, is a regional & intergovernmental organisation of 10 countries of Southeast Asia. ASEAN was established in 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration). Its …
About The Financing for Development summit is a series of global conferences that brings together countries, international institutions and private sector actors to address financial challenges for achieving sustainable development. So far, three conferences have been held, starting with the …
Why in the News? According to a new study released by the World Health Organization in March 2025, every day in 2020, approximately 800 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. About Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)? MMR …
About It is a small, nocturnal primate native to India and Sri Lanka. There are two species of slender loris – the red slender loris and the grey slender loris. While the red slender loris is found in Sri Lanka, …
About The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare launched “Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan” (PMSMA) with an aim to provide fixed-day, free of cost, assured, comprehensive and quality antenatal care universally to all pregnant women in their 2nd / 3rd …