India, Israel, The US, UAE Are Participating In The I2U2 Summit: The US President will host a virtual summit with the Prime Minister of India, Israel Prime Minister and UAE President during his visit to West Asia from July 13 to 16. The new grouping will be called “I2U2” — “I” for India and Israel […]
Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2020-21
Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2020-21: As per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for 2020-21 released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, the unemployment rate saw a decrease of 0.6% and fell to 4.2% in 2020-21, compared with 4.8% in 2019-20 Data show the rate of joblessness fell to 4.2% in 2020-21, […]
Type Certificate (TC) Under Drone Rules, 2021
Type Certificate (TC) Under Drone Rules, 2021: Union Minister of Civil Aviation awarded the first Type Certificate (TC) under Drone Rules, 2021 to IoTechWorld Avigation Pvt Ltd. The Gurugram based company was established in April 2017 and is one of India’s leading manufacturers of kisan drones. IoTech has received the Type Certificate in barely 34 […]
Pradhan Mantri National Apprenticeship Mela
Pradhan Mantri National Apprenticeship Mela: Pradhan Mantri National Apprenticeship Mela was organised across 200 locations across India on June 13th, 2022. The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship will be organising the Pradhan Mantri National Apprenticeship Mela every month now on. It’s objective is to connect the youth with more opportunities of on-ground training within […]
Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF)-2022
Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF)-2022: Union Minister for Health launched the Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF)-2022. IDCF programme is being implemented from 13th June to 27th June, 2022 in the States/UTs. The Intensive Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF) is being organized since 2014 with an objective to ‘bringing the number of deaths due to diarrhoea in […]
AGNIPATH Scheme
AGNIPATH Scheme: The Union Cabinet approved an attractive recruitment scheme for Indian youth to serve in the Armed Forces. The scheme is called AGNIPATH and the youth selected under this scheme will be known as Agniveers. The policy, which comes into immediate effect, will hereafter govern the enrolment for the three services. Under the AGNIPATH […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 15th June 2022
Today Current Affairs:15th June 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
TDS On Virtual Digital Assets
TDS On Virtual Digital Assets: The Government of India clarified that the TDS on virtual digital assets (VDA) continues to be 1%. The clarification from the Income Tax comes at a time when some media reports mentioned that the TDS rate for virtual digital assets has been dropped to 0.1% from 1% as announced earlier […]
Web 5.0
Web 5.0: Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently announced his vision for a new decentralized web platform that is being called Web 5.0. The aim is to return “ownership of data and identity to individuals”. Web 1.0 is the “read-only Web,” Web 2.0 is the “participative social Web,” and Web 3.0 is the “read, write, […]
Regulations Review Authority
Regulations Review Authority: The Regulations Review Authority of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recommended withdrawal of 714 regulatory instructions which have either become obsolete or redundant. This is part of the RRA 2.0 recommendations on issues such as, Ease of compliance, Reduction of regulatory burden Rationalization of reporting mechanism, Streamlining instructions and communication. […]
