• Niti Aayog has given final contours to the plan of helping the poorest Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe households with a monthly income of less than Rs. 5,000 with conditional cash transfers. Key highlights: • Currently, Developmental Action Plan…
• In 2010, India and the US had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation on the Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership (GCNEP). • The MoU has been extended for 10 more years. Extended MoU committed to: •…
• Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is trying to build consensus among various government stakeholders on e-commerce policy. • DPIIT outreach aims to ensure that ecommerce proposals do not clash with other upcoming legislations. • Personal…
• Government is planning to link e-courts with land records and registration databases of Department of Land Resources. • As per an estimate, about 7.7 million people in India are affected by conflict over 2.5 million hectares of land, threatening…
• 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…
• The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) released the draft data centre policy which said that the government will work towards providing “infrastructure status” for the data centre sector, at par with other sectors like Railways, Roadways, and…
• The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Acharya Kripalani on his Jayanti. About: • Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani (1888 – 1982), popularly known as Acharya Kripalani, was an independence activist, Indian politician and an Educationist. Educationist: • Kripalani…
• India’s leading online grocer BigBasket has allegedly suffered a massive data breach in which details of over 20 million users. • The case follows past data breach incidents in Zomato, defence PSU BEML etc and over 1 lakh national…
• The first committee of the United Nations General Assembly has adopted two India-sponsored resolutions on nuclear disarmament which aim to reduce risk of nuclear accidents and call for a prohibition on the use of nuclear weapons. • The UNGA…
• Some of India’s biggest private sector companies pledged to work with the government to tackle climate change and build sustainable economies, thereby helping the country achieve its targets under the Paris Agreement. About: • CEOs of companies like Reliance…
• The RBI rejected Aircel’s resolution plan on the grounds that Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) cannot infuse equity in an insolvent company at the resolution stage. • This brought into focus the conflict between the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC)…
• Indian private sector players wanting to provide communication service within and outside India using a space-based asset are liable for damages caused to other space objects in outer space and its environment, states the Draft Space Based Communication Policy…
