Security Of The Prime Minister: With the Prime Minister’s cavalcade stranded on a flyover in Punjab’s Ferozepur district for over 15 minutes due to a protest, the Ministry of Home Affairs has sought a report from Punjab government on what it called “a major lapse in the security of the PM”. Planning of the PM’s […]
Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA)
Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA): Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA)sets a new record of 19000 flying hours in 2021. During the year 2021, IGRUA piled up 19000 hours of flying as against an average yearly flying output of 15000 per year during the previous five years while it was 11641 hours in 2020. […]
Chilika Lake: Odisha
Chilika Lake: Odisha As per the water bird status survey-2022 conducted in the Chilika lake, nearly 11 lakhs water bird and wetland dependent species visited the lake. Chilika Lake is the largest brackish water lake and wintering ground of the birds in the Indian subcontinent. Chilika is Asia’s largest and world’s second largest lagoon. In […]
Jagannath Temple Act, 1954
Jagannath Temple Act, 1954: In a historic decision, the Odisha state cabinet has approved amendments to the Sri Jagannath Temple Act of 1954. In the year 1806, the then British government had issued regulations for management of the Jagannath temple which was referred to as the Juggernaut temple by the colonial rulers. Under these regulations, […]
Smart Cities And Academia Towards Action & Research (SAAR) Program
Smart cities And Academia Towards Action & Research (SAAR) Program: The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has launched “Smart cities and Academia Towards Action & Research (SAAR)” program. It is a joint initiative of MoHUA, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and leading Indian academic institutions of the country. Under the program, 15 […]
One District One Product under PMFME Scheme
PMFME Scheme: The Ministry of Food Processing Industries and NAFED (National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited) today launched six, One District One Product (ODOP) brands under the Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro food processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme. The Ministry has signed an agreement with NAFED for developing 10 brands of selected ODOPs under […]
United Nation Security Council: Five New Non Permanent Members
United Nation Security Council: The United Nation Security Council (UNSC) got five new non permanent members (Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates). Estonia, Niger, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Tunisia and Vietnam finished their terms recently. Albania is joining for the first time while Brazil is taking an 11th turn. Gabon and […]
Economical Weaker Sections: Income Criteria
Economical Weaker Sections: A government committee report told the Supreme Court (SC) that “income” is a “feasible criterion” for defining the “Economical Weaker Sections” (EWS). In October 2021 NEET aspirants filed a petition asking how ‘Rs 8 lakh’ has been taken as an annual income criterion to identify EWS for grant of 10% reservation in […]
What is Multi Agency Centre (MAC)?
Multi Agency Centre (MAC): The Union government has asked the States to share more intelligence inputs through the Multi Agency Centre (MAC). MAC is a common counter-terrorism grid under the Intelligence Bureau that was made operational in 2001 following the Kargil War. As many as 28 organisations, including the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), armed […]
Airtel Payments Bank Is Now A Scheduled Bank
Airtel Payments Bank Is Now A Scheduled Bank: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the inclusion of Airtel Payments Bank Ltd. in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. With this, the bank can now pitch for government-issued Requests for Proposals (RFP) and primary auctions and undertake both Central […]
