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New Districts of Andhra Pradesh

The Jagan Mohan Reddy Government of Andhra Pradesh recently created 13 new districts. The districts were created based on Parliamentary constituencies. With this the total number of districts...

January 27, 2022

J&K Next-Gen Administrative Reforms

The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) is to collaborate with the Jammu and Kashmir Government for administrative reforms. What is the plan? A roadmap is...

January 27, 2022

IMF on El-Salvador Bitcoin legal tender

The International Monetary Fund recently asked El Salvador to remove the legal status of bitcoin. What happened? In September 2021, El Salvador became the first country to allow...

January 27, 2022

Russia Military drills near Ukraine

Russia recently held military drills in the annexed Crimean region. More than six thousand troops participated in the drills. Russia had already stationed 100,000 soldiers in the Ukraine...

January 27, 2022

Drone Certification Scheme

On January 26, 2022, Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) notified a drone certification scheme for ensuring minimum safety and quality requirements, because it will boost indigenous manufacturing. Drone...

January 27, 2022

Kerala: Ordinance to dilute Lokayukta Powers

Kerala government has decided to bring an ordinance for amending the “Kerala Lokayukta Act”, so that it would have the powers of rejecting report of anti-corruption body. Highlights...

January 27, 2022

ASER Survey on Chhattisgarh (Rural)

Report on “Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) Chhattisgarh (Rural) 2021” was released recently. The report highlights the learning crisis created by covid-19 pandemic induced lockdowns, since March...

January 27, 2022

Om: CSIR-CDRI RT-PCR kit for Omicron Variant

The scientists from ‘CSIR – Central Drug Research Institute’ have developed an indigenous RT-PCR kit called ‘Om’. This kit will be used to test the omicron variant. Highlights...

January 27, 2022

Veteran archaeologist R. Nagaswamy

Renowned archaeologist and first director of Tamil Nadu archaeology department, Padma Bhushan R. Nagaswamy, passed away on January 23, 2022 in Chennai. Highlights He is survived by two...

January 27, 2022

Rise in India’s Bilateral Trade with China

As per Chinese government data, India’s bilateral trade with China has increased to 43.3 percent in 2021, despite India’s measures to reduce dependence on imports from China and...

January 27, 2022

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