• The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) emphasized that 2020 is the worst year on record. The United Nations World Tourism Organization issued this statement because the international travel ban implemented to curb the COVID-19 outbreak has dealt a…
• The dispute is over 7,000 sq km area along Maharashtra’s border with Karnataka, in districts of Belagavi, Uttara Kannada, Bidar, and Gulbarga etc. • All these areas are predominantly Marathi-speaking, and Maharashtra wants them to be merged with the…
• Green India Mission (GIM) was launched in 2014, aimed at protecting, restoring and enhancing India’s diminishing forest cover and responding to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures. • It is one of the eight Missions…
• National Immunization Day (NID) commonly known as Pulse Polio Immunization programme was launched in India in 1995, and is conducted twice in early part of each year. • In these campaigns, children in the age group of 0-5 years…
Mains Paper 3: Economy Prelims level: PM Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana Mains level: Government Budgeting Context: • Budget made a brave effort to make good use of the lessons learnt from the unprecedented global health crisis and ensuing economic…
Mains Paper 3: Economy Prelims level: Central Government Health Scheme Mains level: Government Budgeting. Context: • Carrying over fiscal conservatism lenient tax regime that favours private capital and restrained debt-financed spending are quite evident. • Annual budget is not a…
Mains Paper 3: Economy Prelims level: Development Finance Institution Mains level: Government Budgeting Context: • That there is no targeted employment programme, Health, Inequality, net of inflation, disinvestment, sources of deficit financing and FDI policy is a cause of concern.…
