ARNALA Ship: The ARNALA ship is inducted into the Indian Navy The ARNALA ship is built under ASW SWC Project. Arnala class of ships will replace the Abhay class ASW Ships of the Indian Navy and are designed to undertake anti-submarine operations in coastal waters and Low-Intensity Maritime Operations (LIMO) including subsurface surveillance in littoral […]
Month: December 2022
Tentative List Of UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Tentative List Of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Three heritage sites were added to the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage sites namely; the Sun Temple at Modhera and Vadnagar town from Gujarat and rock-cut relief sculptures of Unakoti of Tripura. According to UNESCO, A Tentative List is an inventory of those properties which each nation […]
Environmental-Social-Governance
Environmental-Social-Governance: Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, an autonomous institution under the aegis of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India recently launched a programme to create ‘impact leaders’ in the areas of Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG). Environmental-Social-Governance is a term that has been coined to refer to specific data designed to be used by investors for […]
AYURSWASTHYA Yojana
AYURSWASTHYA Yojana: The Ministry of Ayush is running a Scheme namely, AYURSWASTHYA Yojana. AYURSWASTHYA Yojana is a Central Sector Scheme. It is having two components: AYUSH and Public Health (PHI) Centre of Excellence (CoE) from the Financial Year 2021-22 by merging two erstwhile schemes of this Ministry namely Central Sector Scheme of Grant-in-Aid for Promotion […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 21st December 2022
Today’s Current Affairs: 21st December 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Oran land
Oran land: Residents from around 40 villages of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan have walked 225 kilometers to protect community-conserved sacred spaces known as ‘orans’. Currently, the biodiversity hotspots are classified as wastelands. The current categorization is causing a loss of biodiversity and is affecting the livelihood of the locals in the area, as huge chunks of land […]
Gloom In The Classroom: The Schooling Crisis In Jharkhand
Gloom In The Classroom: The Schooling Crisis In Jharkhand Following the pandemic, attendance of students in Jharkhand schools dropped to 58 per cent at the upper primary level and 68 per cent at the primary level, according to a survey ‘Gloom in the Classroom: The Schooling Crisis in Jharkhand’ conducted by Gyan Vigyan Samiti Jharkhand. […]
District Mineral Foundation Scheme
District Mineral Foundation Scheme: Odisha’s Keonjhar district is India’s highest recipient of funds under the District Mineral Foundation (DMF) scheme, and has spent ₹3,000 crore under the scheme over the past seven years. Keonjhar is hugely rich in mineral reserves, especially iron ore. The district has 2,555 million tonnes of iron ore available beneath its […]
ATL Marathon 2022-23
ATL Marathon 2022-23: NITI Aayog recently opened applications for ‘ATL Marathon 2022-23’. ATL Marathon is a flagship innovation challenge under Atal Innovation Mission’s Atal Tinkering Labs program. This is a national-level innovation challenge for young innovators across India who can solve community problems of their choice, and develop innovative solutions in the form of working […]
India’s First-Ever Surety Bond Insurance Product
India’s First-Ever Surety Bond Insurance Product: Surety bond can be defined in its simplest form as a written agreement to guarantee compliance, payment, or performance of an act. Surety is a unique type of insurance because it involves a three-party agreement. The three parties in a surety agreement are: Principal: The party that purchases the […]
