International Leopard Day 2023: International Leopard Day is a new annual event that was officialized on May 3, 2023, with the launch of a dedicated portal, “internationalleopardday.org” by the Cape Leopard Trust (CLT). Leopard: Scientific Name Panthera pardus The leopard is the smallest of the Big Cats (Of genus Panthera namely the Tiger, Lion, Jaguar, […]
Month: May 2023
Innovative Finance Facility For Climate In Asia And The Pacific (IF-CAP) Program
Innovative Finance Facility For Climate In Asia And The Pacific (IF-CAP) Program: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced the Innovative Finance Facility for Climate in Asia and the Pacific (IF-CAP) program to accelerate climate change financing in the region. IF-CAP is the first-of-its-kind multi-donor financing partnership facility with the goal of scaling-up finance for […]
Startup India Seed Fund Scheme : Third-Party Impact Assessment
Startup India Seed Fund Scheme : Third-Party Impact Assessment The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is conducting a third-party impact assessment of the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme to evaluate its performance in benefiting the startup community. Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) was created by DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce and […]
Rail Vikas Nigam Limited : Navratna Status
Rail Vikas Nigam Limited : Navratna Status RVNL , a Central Public Sector Enterprise under the Ministry of Railways, has been granted Navratna status. The company, incorporated in 2003, was established to implement railway infrastructure projects and raise extra-budgetary resources for Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs). RVNL began operations in 2005 and was granted Mini-Ratna status […]
World Press Freedom Index 2023
World Press Freedom Index 2023: India’s ranking in the recently released 2023 World Press Freedom Index has slipped to 161 out of 180 countries. Highlights of the 2023 Report: India is ranked 161 out of 180 countries. Press freedom in India has gone from “problematic” to “very bad”, with the country slipping 11 ranks since […]
Death Of a Rare Black Tiger : Similipal Tiger Reserve
Death Of a Rare Black Tiger : Similipal Tiger Reserve The death of a Rare Black Tiger was reported in the Similipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha. Simlipal has the world’s highest rate of black tiger sightings in the world. Black Tigers are a rare colour variant of the Bengal tiger and are not a distinct […]
Next President Of World Bank
Next President Of World Bank: Indian origin Ajay Banga was confirmed as the next President of World Bank. Ajaypal Singh Banga is an Indian-born American business executive. He is currently vice chairman at General Atlantic.[ He was executive chairman of Mastercard, after having previously served as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company […]
India To Launch Its Own Heat Index
India To Launch Its Own Heat Index: India to launch its own heat index next year to quantify heat hazard, generate impact-based heat wave alerts for specific locations. Heat index is a measure of how hot it feels when humidity is factored in along with the air temperature, and the figures were calculated using data […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 4th May 2023
Today’s Current Affairs: 4th May 2023 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
ASEAN India Maritime Exercise 2023
ASEAN India Maritime Exercise 2023: Indian Naval Ships arrived in Singapore to participate in the Inaugural ASEAN India Maritime Exercise (AIME-2023). ASEAN India Maritime Exercise (AIME-2023) will inaugurate in Singapore. Objective is to strengthen cooperation and coordination between the Indian Navy and ASEAN navies in the maritime domain. The Harbour Phase of the exercise is […]
