Context: After a four-hour debate, the Rajya Sabha approved the Dam Safety Bill, 2019, which allows for the monitoring, inspection, operation, and maintenance of all defined dams across the country and has been contested for decades. The Lok Sabha passed the Bill in August of […]
Context: Women’s legal marriage age will be raised from 18 to 21 years old, according to the Cabinet. This judgment was made following the advice of a panel led by Jaya Jaitly. About the Working Group: Last year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recommended a panel […]
Context: It’s been a year since the armed forces of China and India clashed in Galwan. Background: India and China share a 3,440-kilometer-long (2,100-mile-long) border with overlapping territory claims. At three sites along the Line of Actual Control in 2020, Indian and Chinese soldiers were […]
Prelims Specific Topic The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has authorized a test kit to detect the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus’s Omicron form. OmiSure is the name of the kit, which is made by Tata Medical and Diagnostics. Omisure, an RT-PCR kit, had already been referred […]
Context: The fourth edition of Niti Aayog’s state health index for 2019-20 has been issued. The NITI Aayog, the World Bank, and the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry commissioned the “Health Index” as part of a report. In the most recent index, the following […]
What is Western Disturbance: It is an extra tropical storm that originates in the Mediterranean region and brings heavy winter rains to the Indian subcontinent’s northwestern regions. The westerlies drive a non-monsoonal precipitation pattern. Extratropical storms are a global phenomena that carry moisture in the […]
Context: The Centre wants the States to exchange more intelligence through the Multi Agency Centre (MAC), a single counter-terrorism grid run by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) that was established after the Kargil war in 2001. Union Home Minister Amit Shah ordered the Directors General of […]