• The government of India, the government of Meghalaya and the World Bank signed a $120 million project to improve and modernize the transportation sector in Meghalaya. The project will improve approximately 300 kilometres of strategic road sections and independent…
• Occupational Safety, Health Code was passed by Parliament in September. It subsumed 13 labour laws regulating health, safety and working conditions of workers like Factories Act, 1948; Mines Act, 1952 etc. • Draft rules provide for operationalization of provisions…
• Petroleum Ministry had introduced Biofuel Policy, 2018 with the objective of reaching 20% ethanol-blending and 5% biodiesel-blending by the year 2030, but now government is preparing plan to prepone the target for 20% blending. • In the current ethanol…
• The RuPay card Phase-ll that will allow Bhutanese card holders to access the RuPay network in India. • Phase-1 of the project, launched in August 2019, RuPay card enabled Indian visitors to access ATMs and Point of Sale (PoS)…
• A mushroom documentation project in the forests of Northeast India has led to a new discovery: a bioluminescent — or light emitting — variety of mushroom. About: • The new species — named Roridomyces phyllostachydis — was first sighted…
• India became the fourth country in the world to have its independent regional navigation satellite system recognised by International Maritime Organisation (IMO) as a part of WWRNS. • Other three are US’s GPS, Russia’s GLONASS and China’s BeiDou. •…
• Tamil Nadu Governor promulgated an ordinance that banned online gaming in the state, with a fine up to Rs 5,000 and imprisonment of up to six months. About: • In the ordinance banning the game, the Governor said that…
