Current Affairs

  Context Recently, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has implemented the Essential Commodities Act 1955 to check the increase in the prices of tur dal. States and UTs have been directed to ‘upload the stockholder entities’ data on the stock held…

• by:-khyati khare
• August 16, 2022

  Recently the Criminal Procedure (Identity) Act, 2022 has come into force after it was passed in Parliament in April 2022. It replaces a colonial-era law, the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920, and authorizes police officers to identify people convicted, arrested or facing trial in…

• by:-khyati khare
• August 13, 2022

  The Government of India has formulated a comprehensive scheme named “Smile – Support for marginalized persons for livelihood and enterprise” to overcome the problem of desperation and begging. Under the Smile-75 initiative, 75 municipal corporations have been identified to implement holistic rehabilitation of people…

• by:-khyati khare
• August 13, 2022

Context :  As per the data of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) the Poverty Ratio (Head Count Ratio) of Tamilnadu declined from 4.89% in 2015-16 to 1.57% in 2020-21. Many economists and scholars, many time raised questions about the credibility of the data of…

• by:-Rahul Sharma
• August 12, 2022

  Recently India has hosted the Pre-Summit of Tiger Range Countries (TRCs). The Tiger Range Countries Summit is scheduled to be held on September 5, 2022 in Vladivostok, Russia. The 4th Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation was held in January 2022. The National Tiger…

• by:-khyati khare
• August 12, 2022

  The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched the first flight of its new satellite launcher ‘Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSV)’ from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, carrying two satellites – Prithvi. The observation satellite went into space carrying EOS-02 and…

• by:-khyati khare
• August 12, 2022

Context: The summit of G20 is an upcoming summit that is going to be held in Bali (15-16 November 2022) and the next G20 summit will be held in 2023 in Kashmir. In the summit of 2022, India would lead the foundations of the agenda…

• by:-Rahul Sharma
• August 11, 2022

  Various electoral parties in Gujarat are trying to woo the tribals by promising strict implementation of the Panchayat Upabandhan (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act (PESA), 1996. State PESA rules were notified in Gujarat in January 2017 and they were implemented in 4,503 gram sabhas…

• by:-khyati khare
• August 11, 2022

  On August 8, 2022, India completed 80 years of Quit India Movement, also known as August Kranti. Introduction: On August 8, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi called for the end of British rule and started the Quit India Movement at the All India Congress Committee session…

• by:-khyati khare
• August 11, 2022

  The Government of India has set a target to expand India’s renewable energy installed capacity to 500 GW by 2030. India has set a target of reducing the country’s total estimated carbon emissions by 1 billion tonnes by 2030, reducing the carbon intensity of…

• by:-khyati khare
• August 10, 2022