Q. Why is this in News? A. Residents of the four villages in Chhattisgarh’s Mungeli district have received Community Forest Resource Rights (CFRR). Achanakmar became the second tiger reserve in Chhattisgarh to get CFRR, following Udanti Sitanadi Tiger Reserve in Dhamtari district. Q. What is a Community Forest Resource? A. The Community Forest Resource (CFR) area is common forest land that has been traditionally protected and conserved for sustainable u... Read More...
Q. Why is this in News? A. The operation code-named “Megh Chakra” is being carried out following the inputs received from Interpol’s Singapore special unit based on the information received from the authorities in New Zealand. It is a pan-India drive against the circulation and sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Q. What are the Key Highlights of the Megh Chakra Operation? A. ... Read More...
Q. Why in the News? A. Recently, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced that India is hosting the G-20 (Group of 20) leaders’ summit in New Delhi next year 2023. The 17th G20 Heads of State and Government Summit will happen in November 2022 in Indonesia, after which India will assume the presidency of G20 from December 2022. India is assuming the Presidency of the G20 for one year. Q. What are the Key Points? A. Guest Countries: Read More...
Q. Why is this in news? A. India and Bangladesh discussed a wide range of River Water Sharing issues related to the major common rivers such as the Ganga, Teesta and several others during the 38th meeting of the Joint River Commission (JRC). Q. What are the Rivers between India and Bangladesh? A. Overall, India and Bangladesh have 54 transboundary rivers between them, all of which are part of the drainage system of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin. The Padma (the Ganga), the Jamuna (the Brahmaputra) and the Meghna (th... Read More...
Q. Why is this in News? A. UNESCO’s Global Agreement on the Ethics of AI can guide governments and companies alike. Q. What is Artificial Intelligence? A. It describes the action of machines accomplishing tasks that have historically required human intelligence. It includes technologies like machine learning, pattern recognition, big data, neural networks, self-algorithms etc. The origin of the concept can be traced back to Greek ... Read More...
Q. Why is this in news? A. The WTO ministerial meeting in June at Geneva did precious little to address the issue of public stockholding of food. Q. What about Public stockholding issue at WTO? A. India’s PSH policy is based on procuring food from farmers at an administered price(minimum support price or MSP), which is generally higher than the market price. PSH’s’ twin objectives: The PSH policy serves the twin objectives of offering remunerative prices to farmers... Read More...
Q. Why is this in news? A . In a surprise development last week, the Government withdrew the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 2019, thereby abruptly halting the country’s quest for a national data protection law that had been in the works for over five years. Q. What are the Reasons for withdrawal of the Bill? A. The short circular issued by the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology states that considering the report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) — it had proposed 81 amendments and made 12 recomm... Read More...
Q. Why is this in news? A . The Vice President has released the Arabic Version of “Majma Ul-Bahrain” of Mughal Prince Dara Shikoh. The course of the history of the Indian subcontinent, had Dara Shikoh prevailed over Aurangzeb, has been a matter of some conjecture among historians. Critically analyse. Q. Who was Dara Shikoh? A. Dara Shikoh, who was Mughal emperor Shah Jahan’s son and expected heir, was killed on the orders of his brother Aurangzeb in 1659 after losing the war of succession. Read More...
Q. Why is this in news? A. Oxfam India’s latest ‘India Discrimination Report 2022’ finds women in India despite their same educational qualifications and work experience as men will be discriminated in the labour market due to societal and employers’ prejudices. Q. What About the report? A. The Oxfam India report refers to unit-level data from: 61st round National Sample Survey (NSS) data on employment-unemployment (2004-05) Periodic Labour Force Survey in 2018-19 and 2019-20 and Read More...
Q. Why is this in News? A. As per National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reports, Assam recorded the most number of Sedition cases in the country in the last eight years. Q. What are the Findings of the NCRB? A. Out of 475 sedition cases registered in the country between 2014 and 2021, Assam accounted for 69 cases (14.52%). After Assam, the most number of such cases were reported from Haryana (42 cases), followed by Jharkhand (40), Karnataka (38), Andhra Prad... Read More...
Q. Why is this in News? A. Recently, government has approved the inclusion of certain communities in the lists of Scheduled Tribes in Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, fulfilling long-pending demands from these states. Q. What is the Process of Inclusion in the ST List? A. The process to include tribes in the ST list begins with the recommendation from the respective State governments, which are then sent to the Tribal Affairs Ministry, which reviews and sends them to the Registrar Gener... Read More...
Q. Why is this in News? A Recently UDAN (UdeDeshkaAamNagrik), a Regional Connectivity Scheme of the Ministry of Civil Aviation has completed 5 years of success since the launch of its first flight by the Prime Minister on 27th April 2017. Q. What do we need to know about the UDAN Scheme? A. About: Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik (UDAN) was launched as a Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) under the Minist... Read More...
Q. Why is this in News? A. According to a recent study, scientists have found that rainwater from many places across the globe is contaminated with Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAs). Further, they are called Forever chemicals because of their tendency to stick around in the atmosphere, rainwater, and soil for long periods of time. PFAs are also listed in the Stockholm Convention. Q. What is Stockholm Convention? A. Read More...
Q. Why is this in News? A. Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI), assured there will be at least one Constitution Bench functioning throughout the year in the Supreme Court. Q. What is the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court? A. About: A Constitution Bench is a bench of the Supreme Court having five or more judges on it. These benches are not a routine phenomenon. A vast majority of cases before the Supreme Cou... Read More...
Q. Why is this in news? A . The government has withdrawn the Personal Data Protection Bill from Parliament after several amendments were proposed by the Joint-Parliamentary Committee. Q. What is the Definition of data? A. Data is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted. Q. What is Data Protection? A. Data prot... Read More...
Q. Why is this in News? A. Electoral Parties are trying to woo tribals in Gujarat by making promises to strictly implement the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, 1996. Gujarat notified the State PESA Rules in January 2017 and made them applicable in 4,503 gram sabhas under 2,584 village panchayats in 50 tribal talukas in eight districts of the state. However, the Act has not been enforced in letter and spirit. Six states (Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra) have formed the PESA laws, and Chhattisgarh ... Read More...
Q Why is this in News? A. On World Biofuel Day 2022, the government of India announced a 2nd generation (2G) ethanol plant to be set up at the Indian Oil Corporation’s refinery in Haryana. This ethanol plant will help reduce air pollution from the Delhi and the NCR region along with generating additional income and green fuel. Q. What is World Biofuel Day? A. About: It is celebr... Read More...
Q. Why is this in news? A. As per the recent analysis done by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), Ground water levels in some parts of the Country are declining. The data collected by CGWB during November 2021 when compared with the decadal mean of November 2011 to Nov 2020 indicates that about 70% wells have registered rise in water level whereas, about 30% of the wells monitored have registered decline in ground water level mostly in the range of 0–2 m. Q.What is the Present Status of Groundwater Depletion in India? A. Read More...
Q. Why is this in News? A. Recently, Chief Justice of India said Fundamental Duties in the Constitution are not merely to serve a "pedantic or technical" purpose, but they were incorporated as the key to social transformation. Q. How were the Fundamental Duties Incorporated? A. The idea of Fundamental Duties is inspired from the Constitution of Russia (erstwhile Soviet Union). These were incorporated in Part IV-A of the Constitution b... Read More...
Q. Why is this in News? A. Recently, the Union Cabinet gave the 13th extension to the Justice Rohini Commission, to examine sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and submit its report by 31st January 2023. The initial deadline to submit the commission’s report was 12 weeks — by 2nd January, 2018. Q. What are the Key Highlights? A. Commission: The commission was set up on 2nd Octobe... Read More...