National Family And Health Survey (NFHS)-5: The National Family and Health Survey (NFHS)-5, the most comprehensive survey on socio-economic and health indicators in the country, has been released. The previous four rounds of the NFHS were conducted in 1992-93, 1998-99, 2005-06 and 2015-16. Highlights of the Report: Women outnumber men, fertility has decreased, and India […]
Digital Service Tax
Digital Service Tax: India and the US have decided on a “transitional approach” to digital service tax imposed by the government. The terms of the deal will be the same that were thrashed out between the US and Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and the UK last week. The pact provides relief from the proposed American […]
African Swine Fever Spreading in Vietnam
African Swine Fever: African Swine Fever (ASF) is spreading widely in Vietnam and is hurting the local farming industry, forcing the culling of three times the number of hogs culled last year. The outbreak has this year spread to 2,275 areas, in 57 out of the country’s 63 cities and provinces, the government said, adding […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 25th November 2021
Today Current Affairs: 25th November 2021 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Gallantry Awards 2021
Gallantry Awards: Group Captain Abhinandan Varthaman was awarded Vir Chakra which is a wartime gallantry award, by the President of India. The gallantry awards are announced twice in a year — first on the occasion of the Republic Day and then on the occasion of the Independence Day. Post-Independence, first three gallantry awards namely Param […]
SDG Urban Index 2021: NITI Aayog
SDG Urban Index: NITI Aayog NITI Aayog under the Indo-German Cooperation released the inaugural Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Urban Index and Dashboard 2021–22. Earlier in June 2021, the third edition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index and Dashboard 2020–21. The index and dashboard are a result of the NITI Aayog-Germany’s International Cooperation Agency […]
What Are Radio-Collars?
What Are Radio-Collars? Last week, a wild elephant was radio-collared for the first time in Assam’s Sonitpur district by the state’s Forest Department, in collaboration with NGO World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-India. The joint initiative is being described as a step to study and mitigate human-elephant conflict in the state. Experts say the exercise is challenging, […]
Fastest Spinning White Dwarf Confirmed
White Dwarf Star: A white dwarf star that completes a full rotation once every 25 seconds is the fastest spinning confirmed white dwarf, according to a team of astronomers. They have shown that it is an extremely rare example of a magnetic propeller system: The white dwarf is pulling gaseous plasma from a nearby companion […]
Trade Policy Forum
Trade Policy Forum: The United States and India committed to integrating their economies across sectors to harness the untapped potential of the bilateral relationship, at the Trade Policy Forum convened after a gap of four years on Tuesday. Co-chaired by Commerce and Industry, Textiles, Consumer Affairs and Food & Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal and […]
James Webb Space Telescope: Launch Delayed
James Webb Space Telescope: The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which astronomers hope will herald a new era of discovery, has been delayed until December 22 after an accident at its launch facility in French Guiana. The space telescope was originally supposed to launch on December 18. JWST is a joint venture between […]
