Urban 20: Under the G20, the presidency of India from December 01, 2022, to November 30, 2023, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is organizing the Urban 20 event. U20 is an important city diplomacy initiative, which reinforces the role of cities in taking the sustainable agenda forward. Urban-20 (U20), one of the Engagement […]
Category: Current Affairs
Global Minimum Tax
Global Minimum Tax: EU members have agreed to implement a minimum tax rate of 15% on big businesses in accordance with Pillar 2 of the global tax agreement framed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2021. In 2021, 136 countries including India had agreed on a plan to redistribute tax rights […]
First Joint Finance And Health Task Force
First Joint Finance And Health Task Force: The first Joint Finance and Health Task Force (JFHTF) meeting under India’s G20 Presidency was held in virtual mode on December 20. The meeting was co-chaired by Italy and Indonesia. The Bali Leaders’ Declaration 2022 extended the mandate of the Task Force to continue the collaborations between Finance […]
Digital India Awards 2022
Digital India Awards 2022: The Smart Cities Mission recently won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “Data Smart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data”. Digital India Awards 2022: The Smart Cities Mission won the award under the ‘Data Sharing and Use for Socio-Economic Development’ category. This category ‘emphasizes on sharing […]
ARNALA Ship
ARNALA Ship: The ARNALA ship is inducted into the Indian Navy The ARNALA ship is built under ASW SWC Project. Arnala class of ships will replace the Abhay class ASW Ships of the Indian Navy and are designed to undertake anti-submarine operations in coastal waters and Low-Intensity Maritime Operations (LIMO) including subsurface surveillance in littoral […]
Tentative List Of UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Tentative List Of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Three heritage sites were added to the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage sites namely; the Sun Temple at Modhera and Vadnagar town from Gujarat and rock-cut relief sculptures of Unakoti of Tripura. According to UNESCO, A Tentative List is an inventory of those properties which each nation […]
Environmental-Social-Governance
Environmental-Social-Governance: Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, an autonomous institution under the aegis of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India recently launched a programme to create ‘impact leaders’ in the areas of Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG). Environmental-Social-Governance is a term that has been coined to refer to specific data designed to be used by investors for […]
AYURSWASTHYA Yojana
AYURSWASTHYA Yojana: The Ministry of Ayush is running a Scheme namely, AYURSWASTHYA Yojana. AYURSWASTHYA Yojana is a Central Sector Scheme. It is having two components: AYUSH and Public Health (PHI) Centre of Excellence (CoE) from the Financial Year 2021-22 by merging two erstwhile schemes of this Ministry namely Central Sector Scheme of Grant-in-Aid for Promotion […]
Oran land
Oran land: Residents from around 40 villages of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan have walked 225 kilometers to protect community-conserved sacred spaces known as ‘orans’. Currently, the biodiversity hotspots are classified as wastelands. The current categorization is causing a loss of biodiversity and is affecting the livelihood of the locals in the area, as huge chunks of land […]
Gloom In The Classroom: The Schooling Crisis In Jharkhand
Gloom In The Classroom: The Schooling Crisis In Jharkhand Following the pandemic, attendance of students in Jharkhand schools dropped to 58 per cent at the upper primary level and 68 per cent at the primary level, according to a survey ‘Gloom in the Classroom: The Schooling Crisis in Jharkhand’ conducted by Gyan Vigyan Samiti Jharkhand. […]
