Lieutenant General Manoj Pande : Chief Of Indian Army Lieutenant General Manoj Pande has been appointed as the next Chief of Indian Army. The 29th Army Chief will be the first officer from the Corps of Engineers to become the Chief of Army Staff succeeding General Manoj Mukund Naravane who is scheduled to complete his […]
Guru Tegh Bahadur: Important Points
Guru Tegh Bahadur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation on the 400th Parkash Purab of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji at the Red Fort in New Delhi on 21st of April, 2022. Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621 – 1675) was the ninth of ten Sikh Gurus and the leader of Sikhs from 1665 until his […]
Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG) Scheme
Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG) Scheme: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has relaxed various procedures under the Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG) scheme in order to reduce compliance requirements and facilitate ease of doing business. EPCG Scheme was launched in the 1990s to facilitate import of capital goods with the aim to enhance the […]
Global Centre For Traditional Medicine: Gujarat
Global Centre For Traditional Medicine: Gujarat The groundbreaking ceremony was performed for the first-of-its-kind World Health Organization (WHO) Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM) in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Additionally, the Global Ayush Investment and Innovation Summit will be held later this month in Gandhinagar which is aimed at increasing investments and showcase innovations in the field […]
Strikes In The Gaza Strip
Strikes In The Gaza Strip: Israel has carried out strikes in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired from the Palestinian enclave into Israel. The armed wing of Hamas have announced that it fired on Israeli planes. Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group that has waged war on Israel since […]
Reservation In Promotion In Government Offices
Reservation In Promotion In Government Offices: The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has asked all departments of the Central Government to collect the data on inadequacy of representation of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes before implementing the policy of reservation in promotion in government offices. The DoPT order has also specified conditions (Based on […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 19th April 2022
Today Current Affairs: 19th April 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Environmental Clearance Process
Environmental Clearance Process: The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has introduced a number of changes to the environmental clearance process for projects development projects while proposing to exempt others entirely from its jurisdiction due to which the environmentalists are showing concern. These proposals and changes came in the form of two office […]
Actinimenes koyas: New Species Of Shrimp
Actinimenes koyas: New Species Of Shrimp A new species of shrimp has been discovered by scientists from the ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR). The newly discovered species has been named Actinimenes koyas. NBFGR is focused on the documentation of the country’s aquatic genetic resources and gives special attention to shellfish and fish resources. […]
Vaquita Porpoise: Little Cow
Vaquita Porpoise: Little Cow According to the United States Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), Vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus) is nearing extinction and immediate measures are needed to save the remaining population. Porpoises are among the smallest members of the cetacean family (whales, porpoises and dolphins). They are only distant relatives of dolphins (they last had […]
