China-Taiwan Relations: China recently flew 39 warplanes toward Taiwan in its largest such sortie of the new year, continuing a pattern that the island has answered by scrambling its own jets in response. China often mounts such missions to express displeasure at something Taiwan has done or at shows of international support for the democratically […]
Food Fortification
Food Fortification: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI’s) Food Fortification Resource Centre (FFRC) has reported that over 70% of India’s population consumes less than half the daily recommended dietary allowance of micronutrients. These deficiencies are prevalent not only in women and children from rural areas but also affect population groups in urban […]
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso’s army announced that it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and the national assembly, and closed the country’s borders. Army has toppled governments over the past 18 months in Mali and Guinea. The military also took over in Chad last year (2021) after President Idriss Deby […]
What is Negative Ion Technology?
Negative Ion Technology: The Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ANVS), Netherlands issued a statement identifying various negative ion wearable products containing more Radioactivity than legally permitted. Negative ion technology embeds negative ions in personal products and is currently being advertised as a means to maintain health, balance energy, and improve well-being. This technology […]
Subhash Chandra Bose Awards For Disaster Management 2022
Subhash Chandra Bose Awards For Disaster Management: The Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM) and Professor Vinod Sharma, the founder co-ordinator of the National Centre of Disaster Management, have been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar for 2022 for their excellent work in disaster management. The GIDM was established in 2012 and […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 25th January 2022
Today Current Affairs: 25th January 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
International Counter Terrorism Conference 2022
International Counter Terrorism Conference 2022: The International Counter Terrorism Conference 2022 was organised by the Global Counter Terrorism Council (GCTC). GCTC is an International Think-Tank Council with an overarching mission of reducing the vulnerability of people worldwide to terrorism by preventing, combating and prosecuting terrorist acts and countering incitement and recruitment to terrorism. Earlier, in […]
Environmental Emergency In Peru
Environmental Emergency In Peru: The Peruvian government declared a 90-day “environmental emergency” in damaged coastal territories, after an oil spill that saw 6,000 barrels of crude oil pour into the sea. The spill was caused by freak waves, which resulted from the eruption of a volcano in Tonga. The oil spill came out of a […]
Indian Environment Service (IES)
Indian Environment Service (IES): The Supreme Court asked the Centre to establish a dedicated Indian Environment Service (IES) at the all-India level. The creation of IES was recommended by a committee headed by former Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramanian in 2014. It will act as an expert group in the public and quasi-governmental sectors over the […]
Conjugal Rights
Conjugal Rights: A petition challenging the provision allowing restitution (recovery) of conjugal rights under Hindu personal laws (Hindu Marriage act 1955).has been pending in the Supreme Court (SC) for months without a hearing. The petition, titled Ojaswa Pathak vs Union of India, was filed in the SC in February 2019. The case was last heard […]
