• The World Health Organization – WHO launched an initiative to expand people’s access to affordable insulin on the occasion of World Diabetes Day. November 14 is the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting. He and Charles Best discovered insulin together…
Mains Paper 2: International Relations Prelims level: Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Mains level: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests Context: • At a time when globalisation has lost its lustre and much of…
Mains Paper 2: Health Prelims level: National Centre for Disease Control Mains level: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health Context: • On Sunday, the Centre had to intervene for the second time in less…
Mains Paper 2: Polity Prelims level: Pending cases in Supreme Court Mains level: Judicial activism and proceedings Context: • As you sow, so shall you reap is an old adage which holds true for Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of Republic TV.…
Mains Paper 2: Governance Prelims level: Data policy Mains level: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability Context: • As technology has evolved in the latter part of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st century, the…
Mains Paper 2: Governance Prelims level: Not much Mains level: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability Context: • Isravel Moses, a 26-year-old television journalist who reported on illegal encroachment of land and sale of ganja, was hacked to death…
• Union Minister of Education virtually launched Lilavati Award-2020: AICTE’s Innovative education program to empower women. About: • With women empowerment as the theme, the objective of the award is to create awareness about issues like sanitation, hygiene, health, nutrition,…
• World Health Organisation (WHO) has added novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), vaccine that has proven useful in treatment of Vaccine derived polio virus (VDPV) strain to its Emergency Use Listings. • This is being done in backdrop…
• India has added two more Ramsar sites. • New Sites are Lonar lake in Maharashtra and Sur Sarovar, Uttar Pradesh. Key highlights: • This takes the total number of Ramsar sites in India to 41, from 27 in 2019,…
• RCEP is world’s largest free trade agreement, signed between 10-member ASEAN, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. • It accounts for around a third of world’s GDP and population. About: • RCEP aims to lower tariffs, open…
• Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar Monday launched a Vulture Action Plan 2020-25 for the conservation of vultures in the country. • While MoEFCC has been carrying out a conservation project for vultures since 2006,…
• The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) is mandated with facilitating monetization of non-core assets of government CPSEs (central public sector enterprises) under strategic disinvestment. Key highlights: • It is aimed at analysing public asset monetization in…
