UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize : Central Institute Of Educational Technology: Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) wins UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the year 2021. CIET is a constituent unit of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) under Department of School Education & Literacy. CIET has been […]
Deletion Of 111 Registered Unrecognised Political Parties : Election Commission
Deletion Of 111 Registered Unrecognised Political Parties : Election Commission The Election Commission ordered the deletion of 111 registered unrecognised political parties that it found to be “non-existent” and referred three of the parties to the Department of Revenue for legal action for “serious financial impropriety”. This was the second such action in the recent […]
Payment Vision 2025: RBI
Payment Vision 2025: RBI The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with “Payments Vision 2025” with an objective to provide every user with safe, secure, fast, convenient, accessible and affordable e-payment options. Payments Vision 2025 has been prepared by considering the guidance from the Board for Regulation and Supervision of Payment and Settlement […]
Inter-State Council Meeting
Inter-State Council Meeting: In June 2022, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking that at least three meetings of the Inter-State Council should be held every year to “strengthen the spirit of cooperative federalism”. Inter-State Council is a mechanism that was constituted “to support Centre-State and Inter-State coordination […]
Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP)
Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP): The Boris Johnson administration has come up with a new legislation, the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, which would enable the U.K. to override provisions of the Brexit deal that concern trading arrangements in Northern Ireland the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP). Northern Ireland is the only part of the U.K. that shares […]
Section 295A
Section 295A: The debate surrounding the comments by BJP spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal have put the spotlight on the law that deals with criticism of or insult to religion. India does not have a formal legal framework for dealing with hate speech. However, a cluster of provisions, loosely termed hate speech laws, are […]
Aviation Turbine Fuel
Aviation Turbine Fuel: Oil marketing companies (OMCs) hiked Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) prices by 16.3% on June 16, taking jet fuel prices to a record high of Rs 1.41 lakh per kilolitre in Delhi. The record increase in ATF prices, combined with the depreciating rupee, is set to increase the cost of operations for airlines, […]
Black Death
Black Death: In the journal Nature in June 2022, researchers have claimed that the Black Death one of the deadliest epidemics in the history of humankind originated in modern day northern Kyrgyzstan around 1338-1339 nearly 7-8 years before it ravaged large parts of the world. The term Black Death refers to the bubonic plague that […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 23rd June 2022
Today Current Affairs:23rd June 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
8th International Day Of Yoga
8th International Day Of Yoga: Eighth International Day of Yoga (21st June 2022) is being celebrated across the world. Theme 2022: ‘Yoga for Humanity’. The idea of International Day of Yoga (IDY) was proposed by India during the opening of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), held in 2014. The UN […]
