Pandemic Current Affairs, GK & News
ILO-ADB report: concern expressed on job loss of 41 lakh youth in India amid the Covid-19 pandemic
The joint report of the International Labour Organization and the Asian Development Bank titled ‘Tackling the COVID-19 youth employment crisis in Asia and the Pacific’ apprehended that the COVID-19 pandemic may hit with a job loss of 41 lakh youth in India. The report also added that a major percentage of job loss will be ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs • Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Asian Development Bank • COVID-19 • International Labour Organization • Pandemic • Unemployment • Youth in Asia
Manufacturing in the UK Fell to Record Low
As per the data released by the Confederation of British Industry, the manufacturing activities in the UK have seen a significant slump in the last three months due to significant impact caused by the coronavirus pandemic across the globe. The data from the quarterly industrial trends survey has shown that output dropped in 14 out ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: COVID-19 • Manufacturing Output • Pandemic • UK • United Kingdom
June 5: World Environment Day
Every year the World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5. This year the day is being celebrated under the theme Theme: Celebrate Biodiversity Highlights This year, in 2020, the day is to be hosted in Colombia in partnership with Germany. The day was hosted by India in 2018. It was then India emphasized on ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020
Category: Important Days & Events Current Affairs
Topics: 5 June World Environment Day • Biodiversity • COVID-19 • Pandemic • United Nations • World Environment Day • World Environment Day (WED)
What is KisanRath?
KisanRath is a mobile app developed by the National Informatics Centre to help farmers and traders in the primary and secondary transportation of their agriculture and horticulture produce in times of pandemic. Through this app, transport can be availed from the farm gate itself to the mandi and also from one mandi to another. From ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020
Topics: Agriculture • Farmers • kisanrath • Pandemic • Traders
History of Pandemics: Justinian Plague, Black Death and Spanish Flu
The COVID-19 has killed thousands and has indented a bad and deep history of economic crisis. It has locked down almost every super economic power in the world and has left permanent damages to developing countries. There were several other Pandemics in the history that created equal impacts. They are Justinian Plague, Black Death and ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: Black death • Diseases • Germany • History • Justinian Plague • Nazi Germany • Pandemic • plague • Spanish Flu • World War I