What’s in the news? The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) Chhattisgarh (Rural) 2021 has revealed that the proportion of primary school children who cannot recognize letters of the alphabet has doubled since 2018, and fewer students can now do …
About MSP Minimum Support Price (MSP) is a form of market intervention by the Government to insure agricultural producers against any sharp fall in farm prices. The minimum support prices are announced by the Government at the beginning of the …
About SEZs Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a geographic area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. The objective of developing SEZs include increasing the balance of trade and attracting newer inward-investments …
Although India recognised the Jewish State of Israel in 1950, official diplomatic ties were not established until 1992. Since then, ties between the two nations have improved as a result of shared worries about religious extremism and worldwide terrorism. In …
What is it? A bomb cyclone is a large, intense midlatitude storm that has low pressure at its center, weather fronts and an array of associated weather, from blizzards to severe thunderstorms to heavy precipitation. It becomes a bomb when …
About NCW The National Commission for Women (NCW) is a statutory body formed in 1992 under the National Commission Act 1990. It is the apex national level organisation of India with the mandate of protecting and promoting the interests of …
About ICI The monthly Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI) is a production volume index. The objective of the ICI is to provide an advance indication on production performance of industries of ‘core’ nature. These industries are likely to impact …
What’s in the news? According to the Economic Survey 2021-22, tabled in Parliament by the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate affairs. Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s external trade recovered strongly in 2021-22 after the pandemic-induced slump of the previous year, with …
What’s the news? The Tamil Nadu Forest Department will take up mitigation measures and put up a strict monitoring regime to negate any impact on corals, and the marine ecosystem, in the Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park, by the …