CORE SECTOR OUTPUT SHRINKS, FISCAL DEFICIT AT 83% OF TARGET
Focus: GS-III Indian Economy Why in news? The output of eight core sector industries shrank for the fourth straight month. The Centre’s fiscal deficit for the first three months of fiscal 2020-21 is 83% of the budgeted target for the year. Core Industries Index (CII) The CII showed that the output for the month of […]
DILUTING THE EIA PROCESS
Focus: GS-III Environment and Ecology Introduction Around the world, legislative interventions mandating EIAs began to burgeon in the late 1960s. The basic credo of these measures was to ensure that the state had at its possession a disinterested analysis of any development project and the potential impact that it might have on the environment. It […]
IN ASSAM, A TRAIL OF BROKEN BARRIERS
Focus: GS-III Disaster Management Introduction The Hajong community was settled in Dhamor Reserve as refugees from erstwhile East Pakistan in 1960s and each family has an average of three bighas of land for farming. Goalpara saw flash floods earlier, but in the eastern part bordering the North Garo Hills district of Meghalaya in areas along […]
29 TIGERS PRESENT IN DIBANG BLOCK
Focus: GS-III Environment and Ecology, Prelims Why in news? An estimated 29 tigers were present in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang-Kamlang-Namdapha Block, according to the Status of Tigers, Co-predators, and Prey in India report (2018). Significance The estimation comes amid concerns about the proposed diversion of large forest areas around Dibang Valley Wildlife Sanctuary for a power […]
SUPREME COURT LOOKS TO SAVE BOTH WILD ANIMALS AND CROPS
Focus: GS-III Environment and Ecology, Prelims Why in news? Supreme Court accentuated the urgent need to find an alternative to killing marauding wild animals as vermin even while protecting crops from them. Details Chief Justice of India heading a three-judge Bench, suggested “explosives that do not kill” but make a lot of noise and “rubber […]
GANDHI-KING INITIATIVE PASSES U.S. HOUSE COMMITTEE
Focus: GS-II International relations Why in news? A bill which seeks to establish an exchange program between India and the U.S. to study the work and legacies of Mahatma Gandhi and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., passed an important Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Details The bill will establish annual scholar […]
PLA HOLDS DRILLS IN TIBETAN PLATEAU
Focus: GS-II International Relations Why in news? China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has held “long-range precision” strike drills on the Tibetan plateau bordering India and flown latest jet bombers over the South China Sea (SCS) amid ongoing border friction with New Delhi and rising tension with the US over disputes with littoral countries in SCS […]
CLARIFYING LAC COULD CREATE NEW DISPUTES: CHINESE ENVOY
Focus: GS-II International relations Why in news? China was not in favour of resuming the process of clarifying the Line of Actual Control (LAC) because it could “create new disputes”, its Ambassador to India said. The ambassador said While the Foreign Ministry said earlier this week border troops “completed disengagement in most localities”, defence sources […]
ARHCS KNOWLEDGE PACK RELEASED
Focus: GS-III Indian Economy Why in news? Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) released a ARHCs Knowledge Pack (AKP). Recently the Union Cabinet approved Affordable Rental Housing Complexes (ARHCs) as a sub scheme under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) to provide ease of living to urban migrants/poor. A mobile application of CREDAI – Awaas […]
15th FC’S HLEG ON AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS
Focus: GS-III Indian Economy Why in news? The High-Level Group (HLEG) on Agricultural Exports set up by the Fifteenth Finance Commission to recommend measurable performance incentives for States to encourage agricultural exports and to promote crops to enable high import substitution, has submitted its report to the Commission. Highlights of the recommendations After intensive research […]