• UN has launched road safety trust fund aimed at spurring action to help save lives in road accidents. => About the Fund • The United Nations Road Safety Trust Fund aims to accelerate progress in improving global road safety…
• Concerns over the directive to use population data in the Terms of Reference (ToR) from the 2011 Census, and not the 1971 Census that was used earlier, is an exaggeration. => POPULATION DATA • Conceptually, general purpose transfers to…
• Getting the Centre, States and district administrations to work in tandem is crucial • The 115 Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) conceived by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is radical not because this is the first time that a government in…
• Raising agricultural exports requires the government to unburden policy of consumer bias. A balance should be struck between meeting the needs of food-insecure consumers and income-insecure farmers. • The Government has resolved to increase the value of the country’s…
• Broadly, central banks reveal information through statements which are plain as daylight, by scattering clues across timelines and documents so that a pattern emerges only after joining disparate dots and, finally, by embedding nuances between the lines • The…
• India and the United Kingdom (U.K.) were holding talks to seal an agreement on mutual recognition of educational qualifications. • Education was a major area of bilateral cooperation between the two sides which was likely to feature in official…
• The US has decided to review India’s eligibility to enjoy duty-free access for certain products in the American market under a tax benefit scheme. • As many as 3,500 Indian products from sectors such as chemicals and engineering get…
• E-Way Bill system for Intra-State movement of goods came into force today in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh. • With the roll-out of e-Way Bill system in these States, trade and industry will…
• Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave awards to eight winners of the national level open challenge competition: “Solution to Problem” in Chennai. • The competition, organized during Defence Expo 2018, was aimed at finding solutions to the defence related problems…
• A group of five Supreme Court judges had attempted to codify the broad duties of the Chief Justice of India, particularly in allocating cases in his capacity as “Master of the Roster”. • This attempt to “institutionalise” the functions…
• The government has launched the web-based application ‘e-FRRO’ (e-Foreigners Regional Registration Office) which aims to provide efficient visa related services online to foreigners visiting India. => About ‘e-FRRO’ scheme • The e-FRRO scheme is aimed at building a centralized,…
• NASA is conducting a study of the world’s largest phytoplankton bloom in the North Atlantic, named the North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES) mission • The mission to see how the tiny sea critters influence the climate…
