‘Umang’, ‘Rain Alarm’ And ‘Damini’.: Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah called for giving maximum publicity to various mobile apps related to weather forecasting like ‘Umang’, ‘Rain Alarm’ and ‘Damini’. The Damini app monitors the lightning occurrence all over India and alerts the user of lightning near them by a GPS notification under 20km and […]
Tag: 17th Jun 2021
Sankalp Se Siddhi – Mission Van Dhan
Sankalp Se Siddhi – Mission Van Dhan: Minister for Tribal Affairs launches the tribal livelihoods initiative “Sankalp Se Siddhi – Mission Van Dhan” TRIFED now plans to expand its operations through the convergence of various schemes of different Ministries and Departments and launch the various tribal development programs in Mission Mode under “Sankalp Se Siddhi […]
WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme
WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme: A virtual high-level event on ‘Global Drive to Scale-up TB Prevention’ was recently organized by WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme. The purpose of this special high-level event was to discuss key actions needed at the global and country-level to scale up TB prevention strategies and drive progress towards achieving the 2022 UN […]
Inland Vessels Bill, 2021
Inland Vessels Bill, 2021: The Union Cabinet has given the nod to the Inland Vessels Bill, 2021, which will replace the Inland Vessels Act, 1917. The Bill will regulate the safety, security, and registration of inland vessels. Key features of the Bill: It provides for a unified law for the entire country, instead of separate […]
Corporatization Of Ordnance Factory Board
Corporatization Of Ordnance Factory Board: The Union Cabinet approved a plan to corporatise the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). New Structure: 41 factories across the country will be dissolved into seven new Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSU). The newly created entities will be 100% owned by the government. These entities will be responsible for different verticals […]
Industrial Corridors Scheme
Industrial Corridors Scheme: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India signed a USD 484 million loan for the Tamil Nadu Industrial Connectivity Project. The loan is to improve transport connectivity and facilitate industrial development in the Chennai – Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor (CKIC) in the state of Tamil Nadu. The loan is in […]
Children And Digital Dumpsites: WHO Report
Children And Digital Dumpsites: WHO Report: The World Health Organization (WHO) in its recent report “Children and Digital Dumpsites” has underlined the risk that children working in informal processing are facing due to discarded electronic devices or e-waste. There are as many as 18 million children (as young as five years) and about 12.9 […]
Deep Ocean Mission Approved by Cabinet
Deep Ocean Mission: The Union Cabinet has approved the long-pending Deep Ocean Mission. The mission proposes to explore the deep ocean similar to the space exploration started by ISRO about 35 years ago. The focus of the mission will be on deep-sea mining, ocean climate change advisory services, underwater vehicles and underwater robotics-related technologies. The […]
8th ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) Plus
8th ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) Plus Was Held Recently: It is being hosted by Brunei as it is the chair of the ASEAN grouping this year. Consistent with the ADMM guiding principles of open and outward-looking, the 2nd ADMM in Singapore in 2007 adopted the Concept Paper to establish the ADMM-Plus. The ADMM-Plus is […]
World Sea Turtle Day 2021
World Sea Turtle Day: World Sea Turtle Day is celebrated on 16 June, every year to educate people on the need to conserve the world’s Sea turtles and their habitats. Turtles are the world’s oldest reptile groups in existence, across the world found even before lizards and snakes. The first few years of a marine […]
