Omicron: New Corona Variant The World Health Organization has declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19, to be a variant of concern. The virus was first detected in Southern Africa and it is renamed Omicron. Omicron is placed in the most-troubling category of Covid-19 variants, along with the globally-dominant Delta plus its weaker rivals Alpha, […]
2nd Global Chemicals & Petrochemicals Manufacturing Hub
2nd Global Chemicals & Petrochemicals Manufacturing Hub (GCPMH): Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers inaugurated the 2nd Global Chemicals & Petrochemicals Manufacturing Hub (GCPMH). The event is being organised by the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Government of India jointly with the Federation of Indian Chambers of […]
Base Revision of Wage Rate Index
Wage Rate Index: Expert Group unveils report on base revision of Wage Rate Index (WRI) to 2016=100 from base 1963-65=100. The new series of Wage Rate Index (WRI) with base year 2016=100, is being compiled and maintained by Labour Bureau, an attached office of Ministry of Labour & Employment. The new series of WRI with […]
Primary Health Care: GoI and ADB
Primary Health Care: The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $300 million loan to strengthen and improve access to comprehensive primary health care in urban areas of 13 states that will benefit over 256 million urban dwellers including 51 million from slum areas. The programme supports the Government of India’s […]
Madhya Pradesh Tribal Outreach Programme
Madhya Pradesh Tribal Outreach Programme: Madhya Pradesh government has initiated a massive tribal outreach programme in the state. Important tribes in the state include Bhils and Gonds. As part of the tribals outreach programme, the state has undertaken the following measures: Implementation of the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, which allows self-governance through […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 29th November 2021
Today Current Affairs: 29th November 2021 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Ramappa Temple: Telangana’s First UNESCO World Heritage Site
Ramappa Temple: Telangana’s First UNESCO World Heritage Site: Telangana’s Ramappa Temple is receiving massive focus after it received UNESCO tag recently. About the Temple: Situated in Telangana’s Warangal, the temple stands on a six-feet high star-shaped platform with walls, pillars and ceilings adorned with intricate carvings that attest to the unique skill of the Kakatiyan […]
PASIPHAE
PASIPHAE: Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarisation High-Accuracy Experiment (PASIPHAE) is an international collaborative sky surveying project. Scientists aim to study the polarisation in the light coming from millions of stars. Polarization is a property of light that represents the direction that the light wave oscillates. The survey will use two high-tech optical polarimeters to observe the […]
K-shaped Economic Recovery
K-shaped Economic Recovery: The prospects of a K-shaped recovery from COVID are increasing both in India and across the world. A K-shaped recovery happens when different sections of an economy recover at starkly different rates. Households at the top of the pyramid are likely to have seen their in- comes largely protected, and savings rates […]
UP Anti-Conversion Law
UP Anti-Conversion Law: The Uttar Pradesh Police have registered a total of 108 cases under a controversial ordinance that criminalises religious conversion by “force, undue influence, coercion, or allurement”. The Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020, which was replaced by an Act earlier this year, completes a year. This law was passed by the […]
