Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission: Budgetary Allocation: The Union Cabinet has approved the countrywide implementation of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) with the budgetary allocation of Rs 1,600 crore for five years. Under the mission, citizens will be able to create their Ayushman Bharat health account numbers, to which their digital health records can […]
Category: Current Affairs
INS Visakhapatnam
INS Visakhapatnam: The India-made stealth guided-missile destroyer INS Visakhapatnam was formally affiliated to the Visakhapatnam port. This marks the formal induction of the first of the four ‘Visakhapatnam’ class destroyers. Under the P-15B (Visakhapatnam Class), a total of four warships were planned (Visakhapatnam, Mormugao, Imphal, Surat) to be inducted. It is indigenously designed by the […]
International Intellectual Property Index 2022
International Intellectual Property Index 2022: India has improved its overall International Intellectual Property (IIP) score from 38.4% to 38.6%, and the country is ranked 43rd out of 55 countries on the International Intellectual Property Index. International Intellectual Property Index is an annual report compiled by the US Chambers of Commerce. This year (2022) the […]
Exercise Dharma Guardian 2022
Exercise Dharma Guardian 2022: A Joint Military Exercise, “Exercise Dharma Guardian-2022”, between India and Japan will be conducted at foreign training node, Belagavi (Belgaum, Karnataka) from 27th February to 10th March 2022. Exercise Dharma Guardian-2022 is an annual training event which is being conducted in India since 2018. The scope of this exercise covers […]
Montreux Convention: Important Points
Montreux Convention: Turkey is set to implement an international convention on naval passage through two of its strategic straits, which would allow them to limit the movement of Russian warships between the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. Turkey said that the situation in Ukraine had become a war, a declaration that authorises Turkey […]
Article 80 of the Indian Constitution
Article 80: The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation approved a proposal to amend Article 80 of the Constitution so that its councillors could send a representative to the Rajya Sabha. Article 80 of the Constitution of India deals with the composition of the council of states also called the Upper House and Rajya Sabha (Upper House). […]
FIFA and UEFA To Suspend All Russian Teams
FIFA To Suspend All Russian Teams: On February 28, 2022, FIFA and UEFA decided to indefinitely suspend all Russian teams, whether national representative teams or club teams, from participation in all competitions run by the two football bodies. FIFA, Fédération Internationale de Football Association in French, is the highest global governing body of football […]
Arogya Vanam
Arogya Vanam: The President of India Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated on March 1, 2022 a newly developed Arogya Vanam at the President’s Estate in the presence of the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi. Spread in 6.6 acres, the Arogya Vanam has been developed in the shape of a human sitting in the Yoga Mudra. It […]
Minimum Assured Return Scheme (MARS)
Minimum Assured Return Scheme (MARS): Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), which operates the National Pension System (NPS), is preparing to launch a guaranteed return scheme, Minimum Assured Return Scheme (MARS), which will provide savers and people from the salaried class an option for their investments. The regulator has appointed EY Actuarial Services […]
International Space Station (ISS)
International Space Station (ISS): A widely circulated comment by the chief of Russian space agency Dimitry Rogozin has ignited fears that the tension following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have consequences for the International Space Station (ISS). He said that Russia could respond to the US sanctions by letting the ISS fall from space. He […]
