Direct Payment Of Minimum Support Price: After the recent orders from the Food Corporation of India (FCI), the farm unions warned that the Centre’s insistence on direct payment of Minimum Support Price (MSP) could derail the crop procurement process. The Centre wants to make direct online MSP payment to farmers’ bank accounts, to remove middlemen […]
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Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) : Modified Guidelines
Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) Modified Guidelines: The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has modified the guidelines pertaining to the transfer and posting of officials in the vigilance units of government organisations, restricting their tenure to three years at one place. There are 3 principal actors at the national level in the fight against corruption: the […]
World Health Day 2021 : Theme
World Health Day: World Health Day is celebrated on April 07, 2021. The World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO). Since 1950, World Health Day is held annually on April 7. The date of April 7 marks the […]
National Super Computing Mission : Latest Update
National Super Computing Mission (NSM): India is fast emerging a leader in high power computing with the National Super Computing Mission (NSM). The National Supercomputing Mission was launched to enhance the research capacities and capabilities in the country by connecting them to form a Supercomputing grid, with National Knowledge Network (NKN) as the backbone. The […]
Russian Legislation in News : Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the legislation that may be able to keep him in power until 2036, when he will be 83 years old. Putin, a former KGB officer who is now 68, completes his ongoing six-year tenure his fourth as President in 2024. He has already run the country either as […]
Who is Justice N V Ramana? 48th Chief Justice Of India
Justice N V Ramana: 48th Chief Justice Of India: In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution, President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed Justice N V Ramana as the 48th Chief Justice of India with effect from April 24, 2021, accepting the recommendation made by the outgoing CJI […]
Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP)
Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP): The Union Minister of Health, Harsh Vardhan launched the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP). The Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) is the next generation highly refined version of the presently used Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP). According to the minister, India is the first country in the world to adopt […]
Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021
Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021: The President of India has promulgated the Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021, by which the appellate authorities under nine Acts have been done away with and the right to hear appeals under the statute has been conferred to High Courts. Section 184 […]
Multilateral Maritime Exercise La Perouse
Multilateral Maritime Exercise La Perouse: Indian Navy Ships INS Satpura and INS Kiltan along with P8I Long Range Maritime Patrol Aircraft are participating, for the first time in multilateral maritime exercise La Pérouse, being conducted in the Eastern Indian Ocean Region from 5th to 7th April 2021. Post conduct of La Perouse, the Indo-French Naval […]
DCEP : New Digital Currency of China
New Digital Currency: China: China in February launched the latest round of pilot trials of its new digital currency, with reported plans of a major roll-out by the end of the year and ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing in February 2022. Officially titled the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), the digital RMB (or […]
