City Finance Rankings, 2022: The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs launched this City Finance Rankings, 2022 to evaluate, recognize and reward India’s Urban Local Bodies. The rankings aim to motivate city/state officials and decision-makers, to implement municipal finance reforms. The participating ULBs will be evaluated on 15 indicators across three key municipal finance assessment […]
National Tourism Policy
National Tourism Policy: Parliamentary committees have concluded that drafting a National Tourism Policy will not lead to the development of the tourism industry in the country. The committee has suggested fast-tracking the creation of a National Tourism Council on the lines of the GST council to directly make recommendations to the Central and State governments […]
Ethylene Glycol In Cough Syrups : Death Of 18 Children In Uzbekistan
Ethylene Glycol In Cough Syrups : Death Of 18 Children In Uzbekistan The Health Ministry of Uzbekistan has reported the death of 18 children with acute respiratory disease from taking excessive doses of a cough syrup – Doc-1 Max manufactured by an Indian firm. The cough syrups contained ethylene glycol, a substance that ought not […]
Pension Scheme For Gig Workers
Pension Scheme For Gig Workers: India’s pension fund regulator (PFRDA) has recommended the federal government introduce a UK-like pension scheme for the country’s gig workers, a move aimed at bringing about 90 per cent of the overall workforce into the pension fold under the National Pension Scheme (NPS) In a landmark UK Supreme Court ruling […]
Chess Olympiad 2022
Chess Olympiad 2022: With 8 wins in a row at the Chess Olympiad 2022, Dommaraju Gukesh became the new poster boy for Indian chess. In 2019, he became the youngest Indian and then-second-youngest Grandmaster ever (youngest – Abhimanyu Mishra). Recently at the age of 16 he won gold at the Chess Olympiad. Gukesh won the […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 29th December 2022
Today’s Current Affairs: 29th December 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
National Mobile Monitoring System : MGNREGA
National Mobile Monitoring System : MGNREGA Digitally capturing the attendance of workers employed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGREGS) through NMMS has been made universal by the Centre from January 1, 2023. Any worksite having 20 or more workers under MGREGS are to compulsorily mark the attendance through NMMS The […]
e-HRMS 2.0 Portal
e-HRMS 2.0 Portal: Government (Department of Personnel and Training) launched revamped probity portal and e-HRMS 2.0 portal for central government employees. Previously, employees could avail of limited Human Resources Services and were not connected with other HR applications. Now with the revamped portal, employees will get end-to-end HR services and save time and money […]
Dhanu Yatra
Dhanu Yatra: The ‘Dhanu Yatra’ festival, considered to be the world’s largest open-air theatre, has commenced recently in the Western Odisha town of Bargarh. Dhanu Yatra: The plays in the festival start with the dethroning of Emperor Ugrasen of Mathura by angry Kansa over the marriage of his sister Devaki with Vasudev. The festival will […]
CAG Audit Report On Assam’s NRC
CAG Audit Report On Assam’s NRC: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has detected large-scale anomalies in the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam. At the time, the process to update the NRC was started in December 2014 with a deadline for completion in February 2015 and the project […]
