Society and Sociology Current Affairs

More than ₹1 Lakh Crore funds allocated for Rural Areas

The 15th Finance Commission has tied grants of ₹1,42,084 crore to ensure more funds to…

Centre launched e-SHRAM portal for unorganised sector workers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the e-SHRAM portal, a national database for workers of…

NTPC announced recruitment of an all-Female Engineers batch

NTPC Ltd has recruited its first all-Female Engineering Executive Trainees (EETs) batch to reaffirm its…

Women’s Equality Day 2021

Women’s Equality Day is celebrated on 26 August each year in the United States to…

India to evacuate around 180 people from Afghanistan

India is expected to bring back around 180 people from Kabul in a military aircraft…

New portal launched to facilitate geospatial planning of MGNREGA assets

The government launched a new geospatial planning portal, 'Yuktdhara', which Union Minister Jitendra Singh said…

Which countries are taking in Afghan refugees?

The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul on August 15 prompted hundreds of Afghans to rush to…

Elopements most prosecuted under child marriage law

Legal proceedings against child marriages are commonly undertaken against elopements whereas forced child marriages often…

Hazaras of Afghanistan are vulnerable under Taliban

Taliban militants in Afghanistan have vandalised and blown up a statue of Shiite militia leader…

58,000 child labour rescued in 2020-21

Over 58,000 children were rescued across India from work, rehabilitated and mainstreamed under the National…