In News NITI Aayog and the World Food Programme (WFP), India, will launch the ‘Mapping and Exchange of Good Practices’ initiative for mainstreaming millets in Asia and Africa. They will prepare a compendium of good practices for scaling up the production and consumption of millets in India and abroad. About Millet It is a common […]
In Context The virtual summit-level I2U2 meeting between the leaders of Israel, India, UAE and US took place just nine months after the grouping was launched by the foreign ministers of all four countries in Israel. Major Outcomes The grouping focused on the food security crisis and clean energy during their meeting They also discussed […]
In News Recently, the Ministry of Women and Child Development has issued detailed guidelines for the ‘Mission Shakti’ scheme. Mission Shakti About: It is an integrated women empowerment programme as an umbrella scheme for the safety, security and empowerment of women for implementation during the 15th Finance Commission period 202l-22 to 2025-26. The norms of […]
In News Recently, UNICEF in a study said that three million children in India have missed DPT doses in 2020 because of a pandemic. About Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (DTP3) vaccine The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus. […]
In News Iran and Belarus are likely to be the two newest additions to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) grouping. And, Varanasi will be declared the “Cultural and Tourism Capital” of SCO. More about the news Iran and Belarus: 2021 SCO summit in Dushanbe agreed for Iran to join. Belarus has also begun the membership […]
In News The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of universities and colleges for the year 2022 was recently released by the Ministry of Education (MoE). Key Findings Overall Rankings: IIT-Madras topped the overall category for the fourth consecutive year, and in engineering for the seventh straight year. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), which topped […]
In News Recently ,The Department of Empowerment of Person with Disabilities (DoEPwD) released the draft of the national policy for persons with disabilities (“Policy”) . Need The necessity for a new policy was felt because of multiple factors such as India’s signing of the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Enactment of […]
In News The Ministry of Women and Child Development has issued detailed guidelines for the ‘Mission Shakti’ scheme. About Mission Shakti The Government of India has launched ‘Mission Shakti’ – an integrated women empowerment programme as an umbrella scheme for the safety, security and empowerment of women for implementation during the 15th Finance Commission period […]
In News India’s first confirmed monkeypox case has been reported in a 35-year-old male in Kerala, who reached the State capital three days ago from the UAE. Monkeypox About: Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease that occurs primarily in tropical rainforest areas of Central and West Africa and is occasionally exported to other regions. Monkeypox […]
In News Recently, ahead of the Monsoon Session a row has erupted over a 50-page compilation of words deemed unfit for use in Parliament. About the recent controversy Coverage: The new list has words and phrases disallowed not only in the Indian Parliament, but also in various state assemblies, as well as some parliaments of […]
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