Farm Loan Waivers Scheme: Only about half of the intended beneficiaries of farm loan waivers announced by nine States since 2014 have actually received debt write-offs, shows a study by State Bank of India researchers. As of March 2022, the poorest implementation of farm loan waiver schemes in terms of proportion of eligible farmers who […]
Goods And Services Tax
Goods And Services Tax: Customers will have to pay a 5% Goods and Services Tax (GST) on pre-packed, labelled food items such as atta, paneer and curd, besides hospital rooms with rents above ₹5,000, starting from 18 July 2022. Hotel rooms with tariffs of up to ₹1,000 a day, maps and charts, including atlases, will […]
Forest Fires
Forest Fires: In France, Greece, Portugal and Spain, wildfire destroys thousands of hectares of land, forces thousands from their homes and kills several emergency personnel. A wildfire is a major fire that breaks out unpredictably in combustible environments such as dry forests or bush and often burns uncontrollably over a large area and length of […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 18th July 2022
Today Current Affairs: 18th July 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Bundelkhand Expressway
Bundelkhand Expressway: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Bundelkhand Expressway at Kaitheri village in Orai tehsil of Jalaun district in Uttar Pradesh. The 296-kilometre long, four-lane Bundelkhand Expressway passes through seven districts, Chitrakoot, Banda, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Auraiya and Etawah. The 296-Km, four-lane expressway has been constructed at a cost of around 14,850 crore rupees. […]
Great Indian Bustard
Great Indian Bustard: Only four Female Great Indian Bustards (GIB) are left in Gujarat. According to a 2018 count, India has fewer than 150 GIBs, of which 122 are in Rajasthan Great Indian Bustard: It is the State bird of Rajasthan and is considered India’s most critically endangered bird. It is considered the flagship grassland […]
Build Operate Transfer Model
Build Operate Transfer Model: For new projects, NHAI will prefer the build-operate-transfer model Under the BOT model, a private player will finance, build and operate a project for a period of time (20 or 30-year period). The developers will be recouping the investments by way of user charges or tolls charged from customers using the […]
POSOCO
POSOCO: The power ministry has notified Power System Operation Corporation Ltd (POSOCO) as the central nodal agency to set up and run a single window green energy system. POSOCO is CPSE under the Ministry of Power to monitor and ensure round-the-clock integrated operation of the Indian Power System in a reliable, efficient and secure manner […]
Registration Of Press And Periodicals Bill, 2019
Registration Of Press And Periodicals Bill, 2019: Government will revive the Registration of Press and Periodicals Bill, 2019 for a new registration regime for newspapers that will include digital Media as well (the current registration framework doesn’t include digital news) It will replace the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 ( the act currently […]
S-400 Missile System
S-400 Missile System: US House of Representatives has passed a legislative amendment that approves a waiver to India against the punitive CAATSA sanctions for its purchase of the S-400 missile defence system from Russia to help deter aggressors like China. Ro Khanna, the US representative from California’s 17th congressional district said, “The United States must […]
