Fly Ash Management And Utilisation Mission: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the constitution of a ‘Fly Ash Management and Utilisation Mission. The order by the NGT takes note of the ‘unscientific handling and storage’ of the fly ash by coal thermal power stations. For example, the draining of industrial effluents and fly ash in […]
Supreme Court on Suspension Of MLAs
Suspension Of MLAs: The Supreme Court has set aside the one-year suspension of 12 BJP MLAs from the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. The Supreme Court held that suspension for a year was ‘unconstitutional, substantively illegal and irrational’. The MLAs were suspended for misbehaviour in the Assembly pertaining to disclosure of data regarding OBCs. The challenge to […]
Supreme Court Refused To Lay Down The Yardstick For Reservation
Supreme Court (SC) Refused To Lay Down The Yardstick For Reservation: The Supreme Court (SC) refused to lay down the “yardstick” for determining the inadequacy of representation for granting reservation in promotions for Scheduled Caste (SC)/Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates in government jobs. The court’s judgement came in a batch of petitions from across the country […]
Avascular Necrosis (AVN)
Avascular Necrosis (AVN): The health woes of the patients infected with Covid-19 in the second wave still continues as many are being diagnosed with the long post-Covid complications of Avascular Necrosis (AVN), referred to as bone death. To find a clinical explanation, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has submitted a proposal to the […]
Scheme for Enhancement of Capital Goods Sector Phase II
Scheme On Enhancement Of Competitiveness In The Indian Capital Goods Sector- Phase-II: Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) has notified the Scheme on Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector- Phase-II for providing assistance to Common Technology Development and Services Infrastructure. The scheme has a financial outlay of Rs. 1207 crores with Budgetary support […]
Diving Support Craft (DSC) Project
Diving Support Craft (DSC) Project Keel laying for the first ship of Diving Support Craft (DSC) project was held on 27 Jan 2022 in virtual presence of representatives from the Indian Navy, at M/s Titagarh Wagons Ltd., Kolkata. The contract for procurement of Five Diving Support Crafts (Yards 325 to 329) for the Indian Navy […]
Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) MK III Aircraft
Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) MK III Aircraft: In a boost to maritime security, the indigenous Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) MK III aircraft was formally inducted at INS Utkrosh by Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command (CINCAN) Lieutenant General Ajai Singh at Port Blair on January 28, 2022. The ALH MK III aircraft is manufactured by Hindustan […]
Dr V. Anantha Nageswaran : Chief Economic Advisor
Dr V. Anantha Nageswaran :Chief Economic Advisor The Government has appointed Dr V. Anantha Nageswaran as the Chief Economic Advisor. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Nageswaran has worked as a writer, author, teacher and consultant. He has taught at several business schools and institutes of management in India and in Singapore and has published extensively. […]
Septemeranthus: Andaman and Nicobar
Septemeranthus: A new genus of a parasitic flowering plant has recently been discovered from the Nicobar group of islands. The genus Septemeranthus grows on the plant species Horsfieldia glabra (Blume) Warb. The parasitic flowering plants have a modified root structure spread on the stem of the tree and are anchored inside the bark of the […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 29th January 2022
Today Current Affairs: 29th January 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
