SAMARTH Scheme : Report Under the SAMARTH Scheme of Textile Ministry, more than 13,235 artisans have been trained in the last three years. Samarth (Scheme for Capacity Building In Textile Sector) is a flagship skill development scheme approved in continuation to the Integrated Skill Development Scheme for 12th Five Year Plan (FYP), Cabinet Committee of […]
Month: December 2022
State Of The Economy Report: RBI
State Of The Economy Report: RBI The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released a report titled- “State of the Economy”, which warns of a darkening global outlook. Highlights of the Report: The balance of risks gets increasingly tilted towards a darkening global outlook for 2023, the year that will bear the brunt of monetary […]
BF.7 Variant Of Coronavirus: Details
BF.7 Variant Of Coronavirus: The current surge in Covid-19 infections in China, is believed to be driven by the BF.7 sub-variant of Omicron that is circulating over there. BF.7 Variant of Coronavirus: The dominant virus strain in China is BF.7, a sub-variant of Omicron that has been in circulation for over a year now. There […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 22nd December 2022
Today’s Current Affairs: 22nd December 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Purse Seine Fishing
Purse Seine Fishing: Certain coastal states had imposed a ban on purse seine fishing. But the central government has criticized the move and said it is unjustified. A purse seine is made of a long wall of netting framed with floating and leadline and having purse rings hanging from the lower edge of the gear, […]
Lok Sabha Passes Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill
Lok Sabha Passes Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill: Lok Sabha passes Anti-maritime Piracy Bill to promote trade security. The bill will bring the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea into domestic law and enable Indian authorities to take action against piracy on the high seas IPC is not valid for foreigners in international waters: Previously, […]
Urban 20
Urban 20: Under the G20, the presidency of India from December 01, 2022, to November 30, 2023, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is organizing the Urban 20 event. U20 is an important city diplomacy initiative, which reinforces the role of cities in taking the sustainable agenda forward. Urban-20 (U20), one of the Engagement […]
Global Minimum Tax
Global Minimum Tax: EU members have agreed to implement a minimum tax rate of 15% on big businesses in accordance with Pillar 2 of the global tax agreement framed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2021. In 2021, 136 countries including India had agreed on a plan to redistribute tax rights […]
First Joint Finance And Health Task Force
First Joint Finance And Health Task Force: The first Joint Finance and Health Task Force (JFHTF) meeting under India’s G20 Presidency was held in virtual mode on December 20. The meeting was co-chaired by Italy and Indonesia. The Bali Leaders’ Declaration 2022 extended the mandate of the Task Force to continue the collaborations between Finance […]
Digital India Awards 2022
Digital India Awards 2022: The Smart Cities Mission recently won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “Data Smart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data”. Digital India Awards 2022: The Smart Cities Mission won the award under the ‘Data Sharing and Use for Socio-Economic Development’ category. This category ‘emphasizes on sharing […]
