The Lok Sabha recently passed the Constitution (127th) Amendment Bill to restore the states’ power to make their own OBC lists. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Bill seeks to restore the power of State governments to identify OBCs that are socially and educationally backward after a Supreme Court order in May 2021 empowered only […]
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The Supreme Court warned Parliament that the nation is losing patience with the advent of criminals in politics even as it imposed fines on major political parties for covering up from voters the criminal past of the candidates they had fielded in the Bihar Assembly polls last year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The court
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Government of India recently took some steps for awareness about the new low-cost capsule which can convert the paddy stubble into bio-manure. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 IARI has licensed this technology to 12 companies for mass multiplication and marketing of the Pusa Decomposer. In addition, ICAR – IARI, New Delhi has produced about 20000
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The Government had taken several policy initiatives in the past for hydropower development in the country viz., National Electricity Policy 2005, National Tariff Policy 2016, National Rehabilitation & Resettlement Policy 2007 and Right to Fair Compensation & Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Subsequently, the Government has
GEF-MNRE-UNIDO launched loan interest subvention scheme for demonstration of innovative industrial organic waste to energy biomethanation projects and business models. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The industrial organic waste-to-energy bio-methanation projects are generally capital intensive and financially sensitive to both operating costs, including waste availability, and revenue, particularly biogas yield and its utilization scenario. The
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The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has formulated a scheme “SMILE – Support for Marginalized Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The focus of the scheme is on rehabilitation, provision of medical facilities, counselling, basic documentation, education, skill development, economic linkages of the persons found to be engaged in begging.
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Union Minister for Power Raj Kumar Singh informed Rajya Sabha about the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 NMEEE consists of four initiatives to enhance energy efficiency in energy intensive industries which are as follows: Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme aims at reducing Specific Energy Consumption (SEC) i.e.
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Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has greeted all those passionate about lion conservation on World Lion Day (August 10). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Lions, listed as “vulnerable” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, have lost a vast majority of their habitat — and resultantly their population
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India and China have withdrawn troops from the friction Patrolling Point (PP) 17A in Gogra along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Eastern Ladakh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 It has taken 12 rounds of military-level talks to see both sides disengage and put in place buffer zones in the Galwan Valley, the site
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The draft Indian Ports Bill, 2020 was circulated first time for comments of all stakeholders viz. State Governments, Union Territories, State Maritime Boards (SMBs) and major ports. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The draft Indian Ports Bill, 2021 proposes to leave the management and administration of the major ports to the Board of Major Port
