Hike In Prices Of Around 800 Essential Drugs: NPPA The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has announced a hike in prices of around 800 essential drugs from 1 April. These drugs are included in the National Essential List of Medicine (NELM). The rise in drug prices works out at around 10.76% based on the Wholesale […]
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Challenge To The Constitutional Validity Of PM-CARES Fund
Challenge To The Constitutional Validity Of PM-CARES Fund: The Supreme Court has refused to entertain an appeal challenging an Allahabad High Court order which rejected a challenge to the constitutional validity of the PM-CARES Fund. The High Court had dismissed the PIL which challenged the validity of the PM-CARES Fund and the Prime Minister National […]
Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill
Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill: The bill will be tabled in the Parliament. It aims to merge the Capital’s three municipal corporations — South, North and East — ten years after the trifurcation of the civic body. In 2011, the state government had proposed the trifurcation for better efficiency. Constitutional Provisions related to Municipal Corporations: […]
Export Preparedness Index 2021
Export Preparedness Index 2021: NITI Aayog, in collaboration with the Institute of Competitiveness, has released the second edition of the Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2021. The first Index was launched in August 2020. The Export Preparedness Index is a comprehensive analysis of India’s export achievements. It aims to identify the fundamental areas critical for subnational […]
Extension Of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana
Extension Of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana: The Union Cabinet extended the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PM-GKAY) by another six months till September 2022. The scheme was originally introduced in April 2020 a month into the first lockdown during the initial onset of the COVID pandemic. This will be the sixth phase […]
Earth Hour 2022
Earth Hour 2022: Earth Hour was observed on March 26, 2022 (Saturday) from 8:30 to 9:30 PM. It is the world’s largest grassroots movement for the environment where people around the globe unite to take a stand against climate change by turning off non-essential lights for one hour. Starting out as a symbolic lights-out event […]
Bucharest Nine (B-9): Important Points
What Is Bucharest Nine? The Bucharest Nine (B 9) rejected the Russian claim about the eastward “expansion” of North-Atlantic Treaty Alliance organisation (NATO). They underlined that NATO is not an organisation that “expanded” to the east”, rather, these countries as the independent European states that decided on our own to go west. The B 9 […]
What Is Institutional Delivery?
What Is Institutional Delivery? It has been a decade-and-a-half since India started incentivising institutional deliveries to ensure safe childbirths. But health indicators for mothers and infants have not improved as much as the number of such deliveries. Institutional Delivery means giving birth to a child in a medical institution under the overall supervision of trained […]
Air Traffic Management System
Air Traffic Management System: The Airports Authority of India (AAI), under its R&D initiative, has signed an agreement with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) to jointly develop indigenous Air Traffic Management System. Under this Agreement, BEL and AAI will jointly develop Civil Air Traffic Management System (ATMS) with Advanced-Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (ASMGCS), a […]
Indian Antarctic Bill 2022
Indian Antarctic Bill 2022: A Draft legislation has been approved by India’s Union Cabinet to provide a regulatory framework for research activities of India in Antarctica and also to protect the continent’s environment. The Ministry of Earth Sciences has piloted the Indian Antarctica Bill. This bill is expected to help fulfill the nation’s obligations under […]
