Central Government Health Scheme: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare digitally launched the revamped CGHS (Central Government Health Scheme) website and mobile app, “MyCGHS”. The Website has been developed in accordance with GIGW (Guidelines for Indian Government Websites). These standards and guidelines make the website 3U compliant i.e., Usable, User-Centric and Universally Accessible. As […]
Balbir: Bollard Pull Tugs
Balbir: Contract for construction of 50Ton Bollard Pull Tugs was concluded with M/s Hindustan Shipyard Ltd, Visakhapatnam in Feb 2019. The Fourth tug in the series, “Balbir” has been delivered to Naval Dockyard, Mumbai on 24 Jan 2022. These tugs have been designed and built under the classification rules of Indian Register for Shipping (IRS) […]
Criminal Justice Reform: Slow Pace
Criminal Justice Reforms: Experts have expressed “serious concerns over the slow pace of reforms in the criminal justice system to ensure speedy justice”. The delay in disposal of cases was leading to human rights violations of the under-trials and convicts. Despite the Supreme Court’s directions on police reforms, there had been hardly any changes on […]
China-Taiwan Relations
China-Taiwan Relations: China recently flew 39 warplanes toward Taiwan in its largest such sortie of the new year, continuing a pattern that the island has answered by scrambling its own jets in response. China often mounts such missions to express displeasure at something Taiwan has done or at shows of international support for the democratically […]
Food Fortification
Food Fortification: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India’s (FSSAI’s) Food Fortification Resource Centre (FFRC) has reported that over 70% of India’s population consumes less than half the daily recommended dietary allowance of micronutrients. These deficiencies are prevalent not only in women and children from rural areas but also affect population groups in urban […]
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso’s army announced that it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and the national assembly, and closed the country’s borders. Army has toppled governments over the past 18 months in Mali and Guinea. The military also took over in Chad last year (2021) after President Idriss Deby […]
What is Negative Ion Technology?
Negative Ion Technology: The Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ANVS), Netherlands issued a statement identifying various negative ion wearable products containing more Radioactivity than legally permitted. Negative ion technology embeds negative ions in personal products and is currently being advertised as a means to maintain health, balance energy, and improve well-being. This technology […]
Subhash Chandra Bose Awards For Disaster Management 2022
Subhash Chandra Bose Awards For Disaster Management: The Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM) and Professor Vinod Sharma, the founder co-ordinator of the National Centre of Disaster Management, have been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar for 2022 for their excellent work in disaster management. The GIDM was established in 2012 and […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 25th January 2022
Today Current Affairs: 25th January 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
International Counter Terrorism Conference 2022
International Counter Terrorism Conference 2022: The International Counter Terrorism Conference 2022 was organised by the Global Counter Terrorism Council (GCTC). GCTC is an International Think-Tank Council with an overarching mission of reducing the vulnerability of people worldwide to terrorism by preventing, combating and prosecuting terrorist acts and countering incitement and recruitment to terrorism. Earlier, in […]