RBI Guidelines For Digital Lending: RBI has tightened the norms for digital lending seeing a number of cases of fraud. Digital lending involves giving and recovering loans through web platforms or mobile apps. It facilitates speedy disbursal and helps lower the costs of lending. Guidelines: No middlemen: All loans disbursals/repayment between the holder of the […]
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India’s First Dark Sky Reserve In Hanle, Ladakh
India’s First Dark Sky Reserve In Hanle, Ladakh: In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Department of Science & Technology (DST) has announced the setting up of India’s first Dark Sky Reserve in Hanle, Ladakh. A Dark Sky Reserve is a designation given to a place that has policies in place to ensure that a tract of […]
ILO: World Social Protection Report 2020-22
ILO: World Social Protection Report 2020-22 ILO recently released a report specific to Asia and the Pacific Key findings: No access to social protection: Almost 53% of the population in the world has no social protection (56% in the Asia-Pacific and in India over 76% (Bangladesh has a higher % of people under social protection) […]
INS Satpura
INS Satpura: INS Satpura visited Suva, Fiji from 01 – 03 September 2022 as part of its Operational Deployment in the Pacific Ocean. The ship’s visit is aimed at further strengthening the friendship and cooperation between the two nations. Built at Mazagaon Docks Ltd, Mumbai, and commissioned on 20 August 2011, INS Satpura derives her […]
Sedition Laws
Sedition Laws: As per National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports, Assam recorded the most number of Sedition cases in the country in the last eight years. Findings of the NCRB: Out of 475 sedition cases registered in the country between 2014 and 2021, Assam accounted for 69 cases (14.52%). After Assam, the most number of […]
36th National Games
36th National Games: Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the mascot and the anthem for the 36th National Games at Trans Stadia in Ahmedabad. The mascot is named as Savaj which means cub in Gujarati. T he anthem is based on the theme of Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat. The National Games will be organised between […]
India Became The World’s Fifth-Largest Economy
India Became The World’s Fifth-Largest Economy: India became the world’s fifth largest economy by overtaking the United Kingdom. Now, the United States, China, Japan, and Germany are the only nations with economies larger than India’s. The real Gross Domestic product (GDP) growth of 6-6.5% in a world full of uncertainties is the new normal and […]
Ramon Magsaysay Award
Ramon Magsaysay Award: Former Kerala Health Minister and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] central committee member K.K. Shailaja, MLA, has declined the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation’s offer to consider her for the international honour in 2022. The foundation wanted to honour her for the public service and community leadership during the Nipah outbreak and […]
SPARK Program
SPARK Program: The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), has started the Studentship Program for Ayurveda Research Ken (SPARK) for Ayurveda (BAMS) students studying in recognised Ayurveda colleges. Aim is To help students develop an acumen for research and to further support and incentivise their research ideas. The selected students will be offered […]
Jigyasa 2.0
Jigyasa 2.0: Ministry of S&T recently organized Jigyasa 2.0 for the renewable fuel program Jigyasa, a student-scientist connect programme by CSIR in collaboration with Kendriya Vidyalaya and is aimed at connecting school students and scientists so as to extend students’ classroom learning with that of a very well-planned research laboratory-based learning. It would inculcate the […]
