World Summit Of Information Society (WSIS) 2022: Union Minister for Communications attended the opening ceremony of World Summit of Information Society (WSIS) 2022, being organized by International Telecommunications Unions(ITU) at its headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland from 30th May to 3rd June, 2022. The participation comes with India contesting the re-election to the ITU Council, for […]
India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Growth Slowed
India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Growth Slowed: India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to a four-quarter low of 4.1% during the January-March period, from 5.4% in the preceding quarter, as manufacturing output shrank, provisional national income estimates show. As a result, full-year growth came in at 8.7% — a tad lower than the […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 1st June 2022
Today Current Affairs: 1st June 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Operation Rakth Chandan
Operation Rakth Chandan: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has recovered 14.63 MT of Red Sanders worth Rs. 11.70 crore under Operation Rakth Chandan. Red Sanders is a flora-species that is endemic to a distinct tract of forests in Eastern Ghats region of Andhra Pradesh and fall under ‘endangered list’ in the International Union for Conservation […]
Gen Next Democracy Network
Gen Next Democracy Network: Indian Council for Cultural Relations’s (ICCR) ten days programme Gen Next Democracy Network concluded. Youth from democratic countries come to India under the Gen Next Democracy Network programme. During the programme, they get acquainted with India’s heritage, culture and functioning of Indian democracy. In the closing ceremony, 27 delegates from six […]
Cardinal (Catholic Church)
Cardinal (Catholic Church): Pope Francis announced that he will create 21 new Cardinals, including two from India at a Consistory on, 27 August, 2022. The two Cardinals from India are Archbishop Filipe Neri António Sebastião di Rosário Ferrão, Archbishop of Goa and Damão and -Archbishop Anthony Poola, Archbishop of Hyderabad. These cardinals represent the Church […]
Privatisation Of Public Sector Bank
Privatisation Of Public Sector Bank: The government is in the process of taking ‘advanced action’ to take forward the privatisation of public sector banks, top finance ministry officials asserted. In the Union Budget for 2021-22, Union Finance Minister had announced privatisation of two PSBs besides IDBI Bank. However, this year’s Budget Speech had skipped the […]
Top Sugar Producing States of India
Top Sugar Producing States: After a five-year gap, Maharashtra has overtaken Uttar Pradesh to regain its position as India’s top sugar producer. The state’s output for the 2021-22 crushing year (October-September) is expected at 138 lakh tonnes (lt). That is an all-time-high, beating the previous 107.21 lt of 2018-19. This record production is attributed to […]
Permanent Indus Commission Meeting : Indus Water Treaty
Indus Water Treaty: India and Pakistan have begun another round of the Permanent Indus Commission meeting that is held annually under Indus Water Treaty (IWT) 1960. The Indus talks have survived the freeze in ties as both countries see it as mandatory under the IWT. Under the provisions of the treaty, the two sides are […]
50% Of Rural Households Covered Under The Jal Jeevan Mission
50% Of Rural Households Covered Under The Jal Jeevan Mission: 50% of rural households in India have now been covered under the Jal Jeevan Mission. At the time of launch of Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, only 3.23 Crore households i.e. 17% of the rural population had access to drinking water through taps. Certain state […]
