Out-Of-Pocket Expenditure (OOPE): Out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) as a share of total health expenditure and foreign aid for health has both come down as per the findings of the National Health Accounts (NHA) estimates for India for 2017-18 released by Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan. As a share of total health expenditure, the OOPE has come down […]
Category: Current Affairs
Suspension Of MPs
Suspension Of MPs: In the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Prahlad Joshi sought the approval of the House for suspending 12 Rajya Sabha MPs for the remainder of the session. The reason for their suspension was “their unprecedented acts of misconduct, contemptuous, unruly and violent behaviour and intentional attacks on security […]
National Court Of Appeal
National Court Of Appeal: The Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana has urged the Government to seriously consider Attorney General K.K.Venugopal’s suggestion to restructure the judiciary to include four National Courts of Appeals. He remarked that the judicial structure has remained stagnant since Independence and with four appellate courts, pendency will be remarkably reduced. The […]
Krishna River Water Dispute
Krishna River Water Dispute: Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have submitted in the Supreme Court that there is no information forthcoming from Karnataka for the past 14 years about how much Krishna river water it has diverted. In turn, Karnataka argued that a lot water is going waste —“flowing down into the ocean” — and there […]
One Web’s LEO Internet Programme
One Web’s LEO Internet Programme: OneWeb is considering options to remove one of its broadband satellites from low Earth orbit after it failed following a software issue last year. So far, OneWeb has deployed 358 satellites at 1,200 kilometers through 11 launches. OneWeb has a partnership formed earlier this year with debris-removal startup Astroscale under […]
NASA’s Perseverance Rover
NASA’s Perseverance Rover: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover has made a video of the 13th flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter sent by the agency. About Perseverance Rover: It was launched in 2020 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V. It carried a unique instrument, MOXIE or Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment: which for the first time […]
Drug trafficking In Afghanistan
Drug trafficking In Afghanistan: Drugs have been a major source of revenue for the Taliban. With the collapse of Afghanistan’s economy, the Taliban will rely heavily on drug money to maintain control over their cadres. According to the latest World Drug Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Afghanistan reported a 37% […]
National Multidimensional Poverty Index: NITI Ayog
National Multidimensional Poverty Index: NITI Ayog NITI Aayog has released the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). Earlier, Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021 was released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI). The MPI seeks to measure poverty across its multiple dimensions and in effect complements existing poverty […]
Central Bank Digital Currency
Central Bank Digital Currency: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed amendments to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, which would enable it to launch a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), thus enhancing the scope of the definition of ‘bank note’ to include currency in digital form. The move has come amid the […]
Zero Defect Zero Effect Scheme
Zero Defect Zero Effect Scheme: According to the recent data, as many as 23,948 Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) had registered with intent to adopt the principle of the Zero Defect Zero Effect Scheme (ZED). Launched in 2016 by the Ministry of MSME, the scheme is an integrated and comprehensive certification system. The scheme […]
