India Has Added Five More Ramsar Sites: India has added five more Ramsar sites, or wetlands of international importance, bringing the number of such sites to 54. New Ramsar Sites: Karikili Bird Sanctuary (Tamil Nadu): The sanctuary is spread over a five-kilometre-wide belt and is home to cormorants, egrets, grey heron, open-billed stork, darter, spoonbill, […]
Category: Current Affairs
Draft Medical Devices Bill
Draft Medical Devices Bill: The Union Health Ministry released a draft of the proposed Drugs Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill, 2022 which would replace the existing Drugs and Cosmetics Act,1940, and other several rules. It focuses on creating a separate regulation for medical devices, which makes provision for fines and imprisonment for injury and death […]
6th Meeting Of National Association Of Street Vendors Of India (NASVI)
6th Meeting Of National Association Of Street Vendors Of India (NASVI): The Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs addressed the 6th meeting of National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) with the theme as “From Encroachers to Self-Employed”. Street Vendor is a person who offers goods for sale to the public at large without […]
Climate Finance
Climate Finance: The UNFCCC COP26 President, Alok Sharma, visited India to discuss India’s implementation of its COP 26 commitments. He also stated that a mechanism is being put in place to achieve the target of climate financing USD 100 billion by 2023. Climate Finance: It refers to local, national, or transnational financing—drawn from public, private […]
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): Pakistan and China decided to welcome any third country joining the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). In context to Afghanistan, it had broken new ground in strengthening international and regional connectivity. Earlier, Pakistan signed a new agreement with China to begin the second phase of the USD 60 billion China-Pakistan […]
Sakurajima Volcano Japan
Sakurajima Volcano Japan: The Sakurajima Volcano erupted on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu. In 2021, the Fukutoku-Okanoba Submarine Volcano exploded in the Pacific Ocean, off Japan. Sakurajima is one of Japan’s most active volcanoes and eruptions of varying levels take place on a regular basis. It is an active stratovolcano. The largest historical eruptions […]
Monarch Butterflies
Monarch Butterflies: Migratory monarch butterflies have been declared endangered in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of threatened species. Monarch Butterfly :It’s a sub-species of the Danaus plexippus butterfly that travels around 4,000 kilometres across America. It’s the most recognizable butterfly species that are essential pollinators and further provides various ecosystem […]
Kargil Vijay Diwas
Kargil Vijay Diwas: The 23rd anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas is being observed on the 26th of July 2022. The day is dedicated to the martyred soldiers of the Kargil war. After the Indo-Pak war of 1971, there had been many military conflicts. Both the countries conducted nuclear tests in 1998 which further escalated tensions […]
Operation Hawk-Eye
Operation Hawk-Eye: Delhi police project to curb street crimes, snatching and robbery by analyzing the behaviour, body type, clothing etc. of the perpetrators and using best practices. Spotters would be recruited and trained to identify snatchers and robbers. A person with an ‘ectomorph’ body type (tall and slim) and bikers riding either a dilapidated or […]
Swadesh Darshan Scheme 2.0
Swadesh Darshan Scheme 2.0: Ministry of Tourism (MOT) revamps Swadesh Darshan Scheme Key features of the revamped scheme: Develop sustainable and responsible tourism Development of benchmark and standards Promote domestic tourism mainly in tier-II and tier-III cities State government will designate implementing agencies for the projects (earlier ministry of tourism used to do that) 100% […]
