World Aids Day 2021 Today Current affairs World AIDS Day is celebrated every year on 1st December all over the world. It is celebrated to spread awareness about AIDS and in memory of those who lost their lives due to it. Introduction about World aids…
Read moreMinistry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) announced a pilot project to train 2,500 street food vendors in Delhi under the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) component of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) 3.0. Introduction: The project will be implemented by the Tourism…
Read moreRaising Day of ‘Border Security Force’ (BSF) is celebrated every year on 1st December. The Border Security Force (BSF) was established in the year 1965 with the special purpose of protecting the Indian borders after the Indo-Pakistani War. It is one of the five…
Read moreRecently Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has caught 2 passengers with illegal foreign exchange worth Rs 3.7 crore at Mumbai International Airport. The highlight of this campaign has been that under Operation Check Shirts, using data analytics, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) obtained…
Read moreAccording to IMD data, the average rainfall in the month of August was recorded 24 percent less in India, due to which there is a possibility of a decrease of 9 percent in the entire monsoon period. Background: India Meteorological Department was established in…
Read moreNITI Aayog has released Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). Earlier the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021 was released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). Introduction: MPI attempts to measure poverty in many of its dimensions…
Read moreRecently the first edition of India Young Water Professional Program was launched by the Ministry of Jal Shakti. This program will prove to be an important milestone in Australia-India water relations. The objective of this program is to prepare the water leaders of the…
Read moreKerala Tourism will soon launch the ‘Street’ project at select locations in seven districts. ‘Street’ (STREET) is an acronym for ‘Sustainable, Tenable, Responsible, Experimental, Ethnic and Tourism Hub’. The project will help the visitors to experience the cultural diversity of specific places. The project,…
Read moreThe World Health Organization (WHO) has identified the recently discovered strain B.1.1.1.529 of Kovid-19 as ‘Variants of Concern- VOC’. The virus was first detected in southern Africa and its name was changed to Omicron. Introduction: Omicron has been placed in the most worrying category…
Read moreThe System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) studied post-Diwali air pollution in four Indian cities (Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Pune). Three metropolitan cities Delhi, Ahmedabad and Mumbai had higher air pollution during the Diwali period in 2021 than in 2020,…
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