FATF Retains Pakistan On Grey List: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) retained Pakistan in the ‘greylist’ or ‘increased monitoring list’. The FATF also announced the ‘greylisting’ of Jordan, Mali and Turkey. Botswana and Mauritius had been taken out of the grey list. Pakistan is retained for failing to effectively implement the global FATF standards […]
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Digi-Book – Innovations For You: NITI Aayog
Digi-Book – “Innovations For You”: NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) has launched a Digi-Book – “Innovations for You” an attempt to showcase the success stories of Atal Innovation Mission’s Startups in different domains. These startups have worked to create new, disruptive and innovative products, services, and solutions that can pave a path for a […]
Global Food Security Index 2021
Global Food Security Index 2021: India is ranked at 71st position in the Global Food Security (GFS) Index 2021 of 113 countries. Earlier, India was ranked 101st position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021. The GFS Index was designed and constructed by London-based Economist Impact and is sponsored by Corteva Agriscience. The 2021 GFSI […]
Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme For Telecom And Networking Products
Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme For Telecom And Networking Products: Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry of Communications launched Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for Telecom and Networking Products. PLI Scheme in telecom sector will help in reducing India’s dependence on other countries for import of telecom and networking products. The PLI Scheme is being launched […]
Mega Consortium On One Health
Mega Consortium On One Health: The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, GoI, supported a mega consortium on ‘One Health’ and launched the First ‘One Health’ project of DBT. This programme envisages carrying out surveillance of important bacterial, viral and parasitic infections of zoonotic as well as transboundary pathogens in India, including […]
World Bank Doing Business Report 2021
World Bank Doing Business Report: The World Bank, in mid-September, announced that it was set to discontinue publishing its Doing Business report. This announcement came on the back of an independent investigation that, reportedly, found “data irregularities” that prevailed in the 2018 and 2020 reports. In August 2020, World Bank paused the publication of Doing […]
Asset Ownership
Asset Ownership: An analysis of asset ownership data at the household level collected by Lokniti-CSDS during its National Election Study in 2019 was recently released. Gauging who can afford the five assets of a car, an air-conditioner at home, a desktop or laptop computer, a refrigerator, and a television set, has been seen as an […]
Unity Small Finance Bank
Unity Small Finance Bank: The Reserve Bank of India issued a small finance bank (SFB) licence to a consortium of fintech company BharatPe and Centrum Financial Services Ltd. The new business entity “Unity Small Finance Bank” will see Centrum’s MSME and micro finance businesses merged into itself. In a statement, Centrum Group’s Executive Chairman Jaspal […]
Climate Resilience Information System And Planning (CRISP-M) Tool
Climate Resilience Information System And Planning (CRISP-M) Tool: Union Minister of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj jointly launched Climate Resilience Information System and Planning (CRISP-M) tool for integration of climate information in Geographic Information System (GIS) based watershed planning under Mahatma Gandhi NREGA The CRISP-M tool will help embed climate information in the GIS based […]
6th Ministerial (2021) Meeting Of The Conference On Interaction And Confidence-Building Measures (CICA)
6th Ministerial (2021) Meeting Of The Conference On Interaction And Confidence-Building Measures (CICA): The External Affairs Minister addressed the 6th Ministerial (2021) meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures (CICA) in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Last year, Kazakhstan assumed the chairmanship of CICA. The 5th Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the CICA […]
