50% Of Rural Households Covered Under The Jal Jeevan Mission: 50% of rural households in India have now been covered under the Jal Jeevan Mission. At the time of launch of Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, only 3.23 Crore households i.e. 17% of the rural population had access to drinking water through taps. Certain state […]
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INS Gomati
INS Gomati: The Indian Navy Ship (INS) Gomati was decommissioned from the naval dockyard in Mumbai. INS Gomati derives her name from the vibrant river Gomti. Gomati River, also called Gumti, tributary of the Ganga River. When decommissioned, INS Gomati was also the oldest of the guided-missile frigates in the Western Fleet. It was commissioned […]
Non CO2 Pollutants
Non CO2 Pollutants: According to a new study, world needs to target both non-CO2 pollutants and CO2 pollutants to achieve climate targets. Global temperatures are likely to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels by 2035 and 2°C by 2050 if the focus is merely on decarbonisation efforts. The Non-CO2 Pollutants include methane, black carbon, […]
Indo Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness Initiative
Indo Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness Initiative QUAD grouping consisting of India, Australia, Japan and the US rolled out an Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) initiative for information sharing and maritime surveillance across the Indo Pacific region. But Infrastructure constraints and continued delay in posting Indian liaison officers limit India’s ability to further expand its role. […]
National AI Portal: Second Anniversary
Second-Year Anniversary Of National AI Portal: The second-year anniversary of National AI Portal was celebrated on 30th May, 2022. National AI Portal Launched in 2020, it is a joint initiative by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), National e-Governance Division (NeGD) and NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies). The portal focuses on […]
Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme
Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme: The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has approved the extension of the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) for five years till FY26. The PMEGP has now been approved for continuation over the 15th Finance Commission Cycle for five years from 2021-22 to 2025-26 with an outlay of […]
World No Tobacco Day 2022 : Theme
World No Tobacco Day: 31st May is observed as ‘World No Tobacco Day’ every year to spread awareness around the deadly effects of tobacco consumption. The Member States of the World Health Organization created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it […]
What Are Startup Unicorns?
What Are Unicorns? The number of unicorns in India reached the 100-mark. The total valuation of these unicorns is USD 330 billion, that is over Rs 25 lakh crore. The average annual growth rate of Indian unicorns is more than that of the U.S., the U.K. and many other countries. India has become the third-largest […]
PARAM ANANTA India’s Latest Super Computer
PARAM ANANTA India’s Latest Super Computer PARAM ANANTA is India’s latest super computer. It has 838 TeraFlops supercomputing capability. It was commissioned at IIT Gandhinagar under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) It has been developed jointly by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. Param Ananta will rank […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 31st May 2022
Today Current Affairs: 31st May 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
