The 15th Finance Commission has tied grants of ₹1,42,084 crore to ensure more funds to gram panchayats to make their water supply and sanitation-related plans. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In all, the 15th Finance Commission recommended Rs. 2,36,805 Crore to RLBs/ PRIs for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26. Commission also identified ‘water supply and… Read More »
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the e-SHRAM portal, a national database for workers of unorganised sector. The government will also provide e-SHRAM card to the workers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 e-SHRAM Portal-National Database of Unorganized Workers, will facilitate better implementation of various Social Security Schemes for the welfare of all Unorganized Workers of… Read More »
NTPC Ltd has recruited its first all-Female Engineering Executive Trainees (EETs) batch to reaffirm its stand on diversity and inclusion on Women’s Equality Day. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 NTPC received an overwhelming response of the recruitment advertisement, which was published in April, 2021. The engineering graduates were selected based on the performance in GATE… Read More »
Women’s Equality Day is celebrated on 26 August each year in the United States to mark the American women’s advancements towards equality with men. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The United States is commemorating the 101st year of Women’s Equality Day. On August 26, the day is largely commemorated in the United States to honour… Read More »
India is expected to bring back around 180 people from Kabul in a military aircraft amid a scramble by various countries to evacuate their citizens before the August 31 deadline for the withdrawal of American troops from the war-ravaged country. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The aircraft carrying around 180 people is likely to reach… Read More »
The government launched a new geospatial planning portal, ‘Yuktdhara’, which Union Minister Jitendra Singh said will help in facilitating new MGNREGA assets using remote sensing and geographic information system-based data. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The “Yuktdhara” Geospatial Planning Portal will serve as a repository of assets (Geotags) created under various national rural development programmes… Read More »
The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul on August 15 prompted hundreds of Afghans to rush to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in a bid to flee the Islamic militant organisation’s impending rule. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 A refugee is defined as a person who has been forced “to flee his or her country because of… Read More »
Legal proceedings against child marriages are commonly undertaken against elopements whereas forced child marriages often go unpunished, finds a new study. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The report — “Child Marriage Prosecutions in India” — brought out by Partners for Law in Development (PLD), a Delhi-based legal resource group, analysed 83 high court and district… Read More »
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have vandalised and blown up a statue of Shiite militia leader Abdul Ali Mazari in the province of Bamiyan, the unofficial capital of the Hazara ethnic group. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Mazari, widely known as a champion of the Hazaras, was executed by the Taliban in 1995. The Hazaras are… Read More »
Over 58,000 children were rescued across India from work, rehabilitated and mainstreamed under the National Child Labour Project in 2020-21. The National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme is a Central Sector Scheme. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Under this Scheme the District Project Societies (DPS) are set up at the district level under the Chairmanship… Read More »