Anti-Dumping Duty: As per Directorate General of Trade Remedies’ (DGTR) recommendations, India has imposed Anti-Dumping Duties on five Chinese products, including certain aluminium goods and some chemicals, for five years. The DGTR has concluded that these products have been exported at a price below normal value in Indian markets, which has resulted in dumping, causing […]
Category: Current Affairs
New Tariff Guidelines, 2021
New Tariff Guidelines, 2021: The Ministry for Ports, Shipping & Waterways has announced the new Tariff Guidelines, 2021 for the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in Major Ports. The new guidelines have been released in consonance of Major Port Authority Act, 2021. New Guidelines: Existing Scenario: The PPP concessionaires at Major Ports were constrained to operate […]
Soya Meal As An Essential Commodity
Soya Meal As An Essential Commodity: The government has notified, under the Essential Commodities Act 1955, to declare ‘soya meal’ as an essential commodity up to 30th June, 2022. This step is expected to stop any unfair practises (like hoarding, black marketing etc) in the market having the potential to hike the prices of soya […]
Mission SAGAR
Mission SAGAR: As part of yet another deployment undertaken by Indian Navy since May 2020 under Mission SAGAR, Indian Naval Ship Kesari entered Port of Maputo, Mozambique on 25 December 2021. This is the eighth such deployment in consonance with the Prime Ministers vision of Security And Growth for All in the Region and is […]
Who was Archbishop Desmond Tutu?
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90. A contemporary of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, he was was one of the driving forces behind the movement to end the policy of racial segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority government […]
Madan Mohan Malaviya: Important Points
Madan Mohan Malaviya: The Prime Minister has paid tributes to Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya on his Jayanti Birth: 25th December 1861, in Allahabad (now Prayagraj) in Uttar Pradesh. He was a great educationist, pioneer, an eloquent rhetorician, and a national leader. He was given the title of ‘Mahamana’ by Mahatma Gandhi and the second President […]
Kisan Diwas 2021
Kisan Diwas: The ‘Kisan Diwas’ or National Farmers Day is observed across the country on 23rd December to celebrate the birth anniversary of Chaudhary Charan Singh, the former Prime Minister of India. It is celebrated to promote awareness among the citizens to understand the importance of the contributions of the farmers to the society and […]
DART Mission: NASA
DART Mission: NASA Just two weeks after its launch, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has opened its “eye” and returned its first images from space — a major operational milestone for the spacecraft and DART team. DART will reach its target on September 26, 2022. The main aim of the mission is to […]
Golan Heights
Golan Heights: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett recently said the country intends to double the number of settlers living in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights with a multimillion-dollar plan meant to further consolidate Israel’s hold on the territory. The Golan Heights is a rocky plateau with an area of 1,800km² on the border between Israel and […]
Young India’s Aspiration Worries
Young India’s Aspiration Worries: A recent report released by Lokniti-CSDS in collaboration with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, which interviewed 6,277 youth aged 15-34 across 18 states in July-August 2021, offers insights on their career aspirations, job preferences and expectations, their opinions on institutions of kinship, and their mental health. Occupation status: Two-fifths (39%) of India’s youth […]
