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India’s core sector output accelerated for a second straight month in August 2021, rising 11.6 per cent, buoyed in part by the year-earlier month’s 6.9 per cent contraction. The Office of Economic Adviser, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade releases Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI). What is Core Sector in India? In India, there are eight sectors that are considered the core sectors. The eight-core sectors of Read More …
A new species of swamp eel belonging to the genus Rakthamicthys was discovered in a well in Mumbai. The genus Rakthamicthys eel is endemic to India. The new species has been named Rakthamichthys mumba, a hat tip to the city it was found in. The new species was found by Tejas Thackeray of Wildlife Foundation, Mumbai in a 40-feet deep well located on the premises of a blind school at Read More …
NASA will send its first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids to glean new insights into the solar system’s formation 4.5 billion years ago. The probe, called Lucy after an ancient fossil, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974m, that provided insights into the evolution of human species, will launch on October 16 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Lucy mission is to investigate the group of rocky bodies Read More …
On the occasion of the 17th Foundation Day celebrations of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Shri Amit Shah released the training manual of Aapda Mitra Scheme and plan documents of Aapda Mitra and Common Alerting Protocol on September 28, 2021. With the help of Aapda Mitra, the up-gradation of skills of people will be done who have the zeal to fight against disaster, work for others and save people by Read More …
Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)-a Delhi-based environmental organisation is among the winners of the 2021 Right Livelihood Award-known as Sweden’s alternative Nobel Prize. Other awardees include Cameroonian women rights activist Marthe Wandou, Russian environmental activist Vladimir Slivyak, and Canadian Indigenous rights defender Freda Huson.. The LIFE has won the award for its “grassroots approach of empowering vulnerable communities to protect their livelihoods and claim their right to a Read More …
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has taken Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) out of the PCA restrictions, subject to certain conditions and continuous monitoring. The Chennai headquartered public sector bank (PSB) was put under PCA in 2015. Now, among public sector banks, only Central Bank of India remains under the PCA. About Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) Framework Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) Framework refers to the central bank’s watchlist of weak Read More …
The Jeel Albena Association for Humanitarian Development (JAAHD), a humanitarian organization providing emergency services to internally displaced people in northern Yemen, has won the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. Founded by Ameen Jubran in 2017, the organization has constructed 18,000 shelters for internally displaced people and their host communities. It has also provided cash assistance to some 60,000 people and helped thousands of others through its skills-building centre and school rehabilitation Read More …
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on September 30, 2021 inaugurated CIPET: Institute of Petrochemicals Technology, Jaipur and also laid the foundation stone of four new medical colleges in Banswara, Sirohi, Hanumangarh & Dausa districts of Rajasthan. These Medical Colleges have been sanctioned under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for “Establishment of new medical colleges attached with district/ referral hospitals”. About CIPET Together with the Government of Rajasthan, the Government of India Read More …
The ‘Terms of Reference for the Conduct of Navy-to-Navy Talks between the Indian Navy and the Royal Australian Navy’ was signed on 29 Sep 2021. The ToR was signed under the framework of the ‘Joint Guidance for the India-Australia Navy to Navy Relationship’ document, signed by the two Navy Chiefs in August 2021. This is the first such document signed by the Indian Navy with any country. The ToR detailed the Read More …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on September 29, 2021 approved the continuation of ‘National Scheme for PM POSHAN in Schools’ for the five year period 2021-22 to 2025-26. The scheme has been approved with the financial outlay of Rs 54061.73 crores from the Central Government and Rs 31,733.17 crore from State Governments & UT administrations. Central Government will also bear additional cost of about Rs 45,000 crore on Read More …
The National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune has detected Nipah virus antibodies (IgG antibodies) in bat samples collected from Kodiyathoor and Thamarassery in Kozhikode district near the panchayat where a Nipah infection was confirmed in August 2021. The samples were collected by the NIV as part of the Nipah outbreak investigation. A sample belonging to the Pteropus species, collected from Thamarassery, was found to have Nipah antibodies, while the same Read More …
Rajasthan’s Sojat Mehndi has bee awarded the geographical indication (GI) tag by the government. Sojat Mehndi originates from mehndi leaves grown in Sojat tehsil of the Pali district in Rajasthan. Sojat Mehndi is fully naturally cultivated by rainwater for getting high lawsone-a red-orange dye present in the leaves, content in mehndi leaves. About geographical indication (GI) A geographical indication (GI) is a sign used on products that have a specific Read More …
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi dedicated to the Nation 35 crop varieties with special traits through video conference. Some of those released varieties are; Him Shakti (Quinoa ), Him Phaphra (Buckwheat), NRC 138 (Soybean), NRC 142 (Soybean). The Prime Minister also dedicated to the nation the newly constructed campus of the National Institute of Biotic Stress Management Raipur. On this occasion, the Prime Minister also distributed the Green Campus Award Read More …
On the occasion of World Rabies Day on September 28, 2021, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Shri Mansukh Mandaviya unveiled the National Action Plan for dog Mediated Rabies Elimination by 2030 (NAPRE). The “Joint Inter-Ministerial Declaration Support Statement” for Elimination of Dog mediated Rabies from India by 2030 through One Health Approach was also launched. About Rabies Dogs are the main source of human rabies deaths, contributing up Read More …
The Security and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) board on September 28, 2021 cleared a proposal for setting up a gold exchange. In the proposed gold exchange, the gold will be traded in the form of electronic gold receipts and it will help in having a transparent domestic spot price discovery mechanism. The instruments representing gold will be called Electronic Gold Receipts (EGRs). Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Read More …
