Samaj Swami Dayananda Saraswati: The nation is paying tributes to the social reformer and founder of Arya Samaj Swami Dayananda Saraswati Ji on his 198th birth anniversary. Dayananda Saraswati (12 February 1824 – 30 October 1883) was an Indian philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of the Vedic […]
Quad Sharing Intelligence on Threats in the Indo-Pacific Region
Quad: Calling for justice for the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai (2008) and the Pathankot airbase attack (2016) for the first time since the group was formed, the Foreign Ministers of Australia, India, Japan and the U.S. said the Quad was already cooperating on sharing intelligence on threats in the Indo-Pacific region. The group […]
Milan 2022
Milan 2022: The Navy is set to hold the 12th President’s Fleet Review (PFR) on February 21 at Visakhapatnam and few days from that it will host the largest multilateral exercise in this region, Milan 2022. Milan 2022 will see participation of all major Navies including Quad countries, Russia and from West Asia amid […]
SMILE Scheme
Central Sector Scheme: SMILE The Department of Social Justice & Empowerment is launching the Central Sector scheme “SMILE: Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise” at BHIM Auditorium, Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi. This umbrella scheme is designed to provide welfare measures to the Transgender community and the people engaged in the […]
Capital Gains From Stock Markets
Capital Gains: In an almost 10-fold increase in tax collections from stock markets, the government is expecting to collect Rs 60,000-80,000 crore this financial year as a tax on capital gains in the stock markets as against Rs 6,000-8,000 crore in the previous fiscal. Under the Income Tax Act, gains from the sale of […]
Community Innovator Fellowship (CIF)
Community Innovator Fellowship (CIF): Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog in collaboration with UNDP, India launched the Community Innovator Fellowship (CIF) marking the “International Day of Women & Girls in Science”. This is going to be a one-year-long intensive fellowship program which has been designed for an aspiring community innovator irrespective of their socio-economic […]
Uniform Civil Code In News
Uniform Civil Code: Amid the row over wearing hijab in schools and colleges, Union Minister and BJP leader Giriraj Singh has said the Uniform Civil Code is the “need of the hour” and it should be discussed both in Parliament and in society. The Hijab row started in December end when a few students […]
Mekedatu Issue: Updates
Mekedatu Issue: Tamil Nadu has rejected the idea for an exclusive discussion by the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) on the Mekedatu Balancing Reservoir-cum-Drinking Water Project proposed by Karnataka. Tamil Nadu reiterated its position that there should be no discussion on the subject, which was sub judice. Tamil Nadu has protested against Karnataka’s move […]
Committee on Chardham Project
Char Dham: Veteran environmentalist Ravi Chopra has resigned as chairman of the Supreme Court’s High Powered Committee (HPC) on the Char Dham project, saying that his “belief that the HPC could protect this fragile (Himalayan) ecology has been shattered”. In his resignation letter to the secretary general of the Supreme Court on January 27, […]
Russia Exclusion From SWIFT?
Society For Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT): As tensions exacerbate between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine, political commentators say that the United States could, as a last resort, exclude Russia from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). If a country is excluded from the most participatory financial facilitating platform, its foreign funding […]
