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CERT-in may be exempted from RTI
In News The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) may soon be exempt from responding to queries under the Right to Information Act, the government informed Parliament. About The Department of Personnel and Training has reviewed a proposal from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to include CERT-in in the Second Schedule to the […]
Extend FAME II Subsidy: Standing Committee
In News The Parliamentary Standing Committee on heavy industry highlighted that Phase 2 of the FAME scheme to subsidize electric vehicles has achieved only 51.96 per cent of its target. About The Committee on Estimates (2022-23) for evaluation of electric vehicle policy under the the Union Ministry of Heavy Industries suggested an extension of the […]
Foreign Trade Policy 2023
In News Recently, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles has launched the Foreign Trade Policy 2023. About The New policy has replaced the old policy that had been in place since 2015, the new policy kicks in from 2023-24 and aims to almost triple India’s goods […]
Anganwadi Services
In News Recently, the Women and Child Development Ministry informed the Parliament on the contribution of the MGNREGA scheme to the building of Anganwadi centres. About: The Ministry has Informed that 75% of the new anganwadi centres to be constructed in the current year will be built in convergence with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural […]
Indian Express
Indian Express Subject Pg No Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains GS 2 10 Losing steam (International Reports ) What are the key findings of world banks’ recent report titled Falling Long-Term Growth Prospects: Trends, Expectations, and Policies”? GS 3 13 Food for thought in climate crisis :a wholly mammoth meatball (Science and Technology […]
The Hindu
The Hindu Subject Pg No Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains GS 2 1 Drugs for rare diseases get customs duty relief (Health) Know about Rare Diseases, National Policy for Rare Diseases 2021, and recent moves of the government in this context GS 3 6 ISRO releases images of Earth captured by its EOS06 […]
Vaikom Satyagraha
In Context As the year 2024 marks the centenary of the Vaikom Satyagraha, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin is to jointly inaugurate the centenary celebrations, during a function to be held at Vaikom on April 1, 2023. What is Vaikom Satyagraha? The Vaikom Satyagraha 30th March 1924 was […]
ISRO releases images of Earth captured by its EOS-06 satellite
In News The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released images of Earth captured by the EOS-06 satellite. About The images are generated by the ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC). NRSC/ISRO has generated a global False Colour Composite (FCC) mosaic from the images captured by the Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) payload on board EOS-06. […]
Salt Marshes
In Context Salt marshes have been playing an outsized role in stabilising the environment. But more than 90 per cent of these biologically productive ecosystems may soon succumb to sea level rise by the turn of the century. What are Salt marshes? Salt marshes are coastal wetlands that are flooded and drained by salt water […]
