India’s ‘Neighborhood First’ Policy: Indian External Affairs Minister met with Maldives President stating that India’s ‘Neighborhood First’ policy and the Maldives’ ‘India First’ policy complement each other, advancing the special partnership. Under its ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy, India is committed to developing friendly and mutually beneficial relations with all its neighbours. India is an active development […]
Tag: 4th Aug 2022
Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021
Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021: The Lok Sabha passed the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021 The Bill amends the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. The Act regulates the protection of wild animals, birds and plants. The Bill seeks to increase the number of species protected under the law, and implement the Convention on […]
Financial Inclusion Index: RBI
Financial Inclusion Index: RBI The Reserve Bank of India has released the Composite Financial Inclusion Index (FI-Index) for the year ended 31st March 2022. India’s Financial Inclusion Index has improved to 56.4 from 53.9 in the previous year 2021. The improvement has been seen across all its sub-indices (Access, Usage and Equality). Financial Inclusion Index: […]
Restoring Coastal Habitats
Restoring Coastal Habitats: A study has been published, which has raised doubt about the efficiency of restoring coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions. Restoring Coastal habitats is far from certain and unreliable. and there’s a real risk that the scale at which they can mitigate emissions has been massively oversold. It is extremely difficult to […]
4th Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Para Games
4th Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Para Games: The Government of India inaugurated the 4th Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Para Games in New Delhi. ONGC Para Games is a special Human Resource Initiative to provide Equal Opportunities to Persons with Disabilities PwDs in all walks of corporate life. The intent is to […]
National AYUSH Mission
National AYUSH Mission: Under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the National AYUSH Mission, the total budget of 3119.46 crores has been allocated/ released as a central share to States/UTs since the inception of the scheme and they have reported an expenditure of Rs. 2290.20 crores. The government of India has adopted a strategy of Co-location […]
Exercise Pitch Black
Exercise Pitch Black: Indian Force will join 16 other nations later this month for Exercise Pitch Black, hosted by the Australian Air Force. It’s a biennial exercise to enhance interoperability and strengthen relationships among participants. It will provide Indian Air Force a unique opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with these nations in a dynamic […]
100% Quota To Locals
100% Quota To Locals: SC Quashes Jharkhand Decision to Grant 100% Quota to Locals in Govt Jobs Observation by SC “‘The citizens have equal rights, and the total exclusion of others by creating an opportunity for one class is not contemplated by the founding fathers of the Constitution of India” Jharkhand Government in 2016 granted […]
Hellfire R9X Missile
Hellfire R9X Missile: The US military used its ‘secret weapon’ — the Hellfire R9X missile (‘Ninja missile’)– to kill Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri on the balcony of a safe house in Kabul. The Hellfire R9X is a US-origin missile known to cause minimum collateral damage while engaging individual targets. It weighs about 45 kg […]
Nagar Van Yojana
Nagar Van Yojana: The Yojana was discussed in Parliament Aim: To create 400 Urban Forest and 200 Nagar Vatikas in at least 20 hectares of land in the urban areas in the next five years (2020-2025) (on existing forest land or any other vacant land by Urban local bodies) About: Launched in 2020 Van will […]
