Corporatization Of Ordnance Factory Board: The Union Cabinet approved a plan to corporatise the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). New Structure: 41 factories across the country will be dissolved into seven new Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSU). The newly created entities will be 100% owned by the government. These entities will be responsible for different verticals […]
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Industrial Corridors Scheme
Industrial Corridors Scheme: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India signed a USD 484 million loan for the Tamil Nadu Industrial Connectivity Project. The loan is to improve transport connectivity and facilitate industrial development in the Chennai – Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor (CKIC) in the state of Tamil Nadu. The loan is in […]
Children And Digital Dumpsites: WHO Report
Children And Digital Dumpsites: WHO Report: The World Health Organization (WHO) in its recent report “Children and Digital Dumpsites” has underlined the risk that children working in informal processing are facing due to discarded electronic devices or e-waste. There are as many as 18 million children (as young as five years) and about 12.9 […]
Deep Ocean Mission Approved by Cabinet
Deep Ocean Mission: The Union Cabinet has approved the long-pending Deep Ocean Mission. The mission proposes to explore the deep ocean similar to the space exploration started by ISRO about 35 years ago. The focus of the mission will be on deep-sea mining, ocean climate change advisory services, underwater vehicles and underwater robotics-related technologies. The […]
8th ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) Plus
8th ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) Plus Was Held Recently: It is being hosted by Brunei as it is the chair of the ASEAN grouping this year. Consistent with the ADMM guiding principles of open and outward-looking, the 2nd ADMM in Singapore in 2007 adopted the Concept Paper to establish the ADMM-Plus. The ADMM-Plus is […]
World Sea Turtle Day 2021
World Sea Turtle Day: World Sea Turtle Day is celebrated on 16 June, every year to educate people on the need to conserve the world’s Sea turtles and their habitats. Turtles are the world’s oldest reptile groups in existence, across the world found even before lizards and snakes. The first few years of a marine […]
Jalgaon Banana GI Tag
Jalgaon Banana: A consignment of fiber and mineral-rich GI CERTIFIED Jalgaon banana has been exported to Dubai from Tandalwadi village, Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. In 2016, Jalgaon Banana got GI certification which was registered with Nisargraja Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) in Jalgaon. India is the world’s leading producer of bananas with a share of around […]
Dedicated Freight Corridor Trials Conducted
Dedicated Freight Corridor: The Indian Army has successfully conducted trial runs of military trains loaded with vehicles and equipment on the dedicated freight corridor. It ferried heavy equipment from New Rewari station in Haryana to New Phulera in Rajasthan. Dedicated Freight Corridor Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India is constructing the Western DFC (1506 Route […]
Who Was Fakir Mohan Senapati?
Who Was Fakir Mohan Senapati ?: Remembering Fakir Mohan Senapati on his 103rd death anniversary. He passed away on June 14, 1918. Fakir Mohan Senapati (13 January 1843 – 14 June 1918) was an Indian writer, poet, philosopher and social reformer. He is often referred to as Utkala Byasa Kabi (Odisha’s Vyasa). He is regarded […]
Southern Ocean As The World’s Fifth Ocean
The Southern Ocean As The World’s Fifth Ocean: The National Geographic magazine has recognized the ‘Southern Ocean’ as the world’s fifth ocean. The Southern Ocean is the only ocean ‘to touch three other oceans and to completely embrace a continent rather than being embraced by them’. Its northern limit is a latitude of 60 degrees […]
