Today Current Affairs: 15th August 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Day: August 15, 2022
National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM)
National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM): National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM), launched in 2021, has achieved the target of imparting Intellectual Property (IP) awareness and basic training to 1 million students. The target has been achieved ahead of the deadline which was 15 August 2022. National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission (NIPAM) The pan-India mission […]
First Set Of Guidelines For Digital Lending : RBI
First Set Of Guidelines For Digital Lending : RBI The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued the first set of guidelines for digital lending, to crack down on illegal activities by certain players. Towards addressing concerns that had sprung up, the RBI had constituted a Working Group on ‘digital lending including lending through online platforms […]
Global Employment Trends for Youth: ILO
Global Employment Trends for Youth: ILO The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has released a report titled “Global Employment Trends for Youth 2022: Investing in transforming futures for young people”. Findings Globally: Gender Disparity in EPR: Young women exhibited a much lower Employment-to-Population ratio (EPR), showing that young men are almost 1.5 times more likely than […]
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A woman from Bengaluru has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court to stop her Noida-based friend, who has been suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome since 2014, from travelling to Europe to undergo a physician-assisted euthanasia. Also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is a serious and debilitating disease […]
World Elephant Day
World Elephant Day: World Elephant Day is an international annual event on August 12, dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world’s elephants. It was conceived in 2011 by Canadian filmmakers Patricia Sims and Michael Clark of Canazwest Pictures, and Sivaporn Dardarananda, Secretary-General of the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation in Thailand. It was officially founded, […]
Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS)
Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS): Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah has said that the government will bring model by-laws to govern all Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) in the country. He said, the sick and defunct PACS should be revived or taken for liquidation. Amit Shah was addressing a national conference on rural […]