About PMUY The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas launched PMUY in 2016 to provide clean cooking fuel to poor households. It aims to provide 8 crore deposit free LPG connections to poor households. The connections are issued in the …
Who are ASHA workers? ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) workers are volunteers from within the community who are trained to provide information and aid people in accessing benefits of various healthcare schemes of the government. They act as a bridge …
Why in News: Rosatom State Corporation of Russia has supplied the first batches of more reliable and cost-efficient nuclear fuel over the existing one, the TVS-2M nuclear fuel, to India for the Units 1 & 2 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power …
About UNGA United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the UN. It is one of the six principal organs which make up the UN. All 193 Member States of the UN are represented …
About WTO The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that is concerned with the regulation of international trade between nations. The WTO officially commenced on 1 January 1995 under the Marrakesh Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which commenced in 1948. It …
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 …
About IIP The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) is a composite indicator that measures the short-term changes in the volume of production of a basket of industrial products during a given period with respect to that in a chosen base …
How is citizenship acquired in India? In India, citizenship is regulated by the Citizenship Act, 1955. The Act specifies that citizenship may be acquired in India through five methods – by birth in India, by descent, through registration, by naturalisation …