January 2021

Top 10 Current Affairs – 31 January

Top 10 Current Affairs – 31 January 2021

Daily Current Affairs articles 31 January 2021 is the most important area from which a major share of questions come in SSC, Railway, state government recruitment exams, UPSC prelims and mains. We are trying our best to create daily national and international Current Affairs articles from various newspapers, journals, magazines, TV etc. 1. 125th anniversary […]

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Indian Agriculture contributes to green shoots of the Indian Economy

Indian Agriculture contributes to green shoots of the Indian Economy

The Agriculture and Allied activities clocked a growth of 3.4 per cent at constant prices during 2020-21(first advance estimate) says the Economic Survey. The Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs, Smt Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Economic Survey 2020-21 in Parliament. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 As per the Provisional Estimates of National Income released

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Economic Survey 2020-21 constructs Bare Necessities Index

Economic Survey 2020-21 constructs Bare Necessities Index

Economic Survey 2020-21 constructs a Bare Necessities Index (BNI) at the rural, urban and all India level. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The BNI summarises 26 indicators on five dimensions viz., water, sanitation, housing, micro-environment, and other facilities. The BNI has been created for all States for 2012 and 2018 using data from two NSO

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Vocational courses to be rolled out for skill development of school students

Vocational courses to be rolled out for skill development of school students

The Economic Survey 2020-21 states that only 2.4 per cent of the workforce of age 15-59 years have received formal vocational / technical training and another 8.9 per cent of the workforce received training through informal sources. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Out of the 8.9 per cent workforce who received non-formal training, the largest

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Online Schooling taken off in a big way during COVID-19 pandemic

Online Schooling taken off in a big way during COVID-19 pandemic

The Economic Survey 2020-21 presented by the Union Minster for Finance & Corporate Affairs, Smt Nirmala Sitharaman in the Parliament states that online schooling took off in a big way during the COVID-19 pandemic. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The percentage of enrolled children from government and private schools owning a smartphone increased enormously from

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Increase in public health spending from 1% to 2.5-3% of GDP

Increase in public health spending from 1% to 2.5-3% of GDP

The Economic Survey 2020-21 has strongly recommended an increase in public spending on healthcare services from 1 percent to 2.5-3 percent of GDP, as envisaged in the National Health Policy 2017. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It notes that this can significantly reduce the Out-of-Pocket-Expenditure (OOPE) from 65 per cent to 35 per cent of

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BJP’s appropriation of Rabindranath Tagore is a product of realpolitik

BJP’s appropriation of Rabindranath Tagore is a product of realpolitik

Ahead of the upcoming Legislative Assembly elections in West Bengal, the ruling All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) is engaged in Bengal sub-nationalism with its use of the slogan ‘Joy Bangla’. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Joy Bangla is a salutation, slogan and war cry used by some Peoples in Bangladesh and Bengali dominated parts of

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Education Ministry signed agreement with World back to develop education

Education Ministry signed agreement with World back to develop education

Ministry of Education, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), and World Bank have signed an agreement for the financial support worth Rs 5718 crore towards the implementation of the Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States (STARS) project. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The total cost of the STARS project is Rs 5718 crore with the financial

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1st PPP Research Reactor for production of Nuclear Medicines

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has evolved a design for the first PPP Research Reactor for production of Nuclear Medicines. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The premier research organization of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) is ready to share the technology of production of a variety of nuclear medicines. In the proposed partnership, the

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