Background: Last year, the Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019, was recently passed by Parliament. The 1988 SPG Act will be amended by the SPG Bill. The proposed revisions to the Special Protection Group (SPG) Bill are intended to lower the state’s financial burden of […]
Background: The Kerala government’s proposed ‘Silver Line’ project has received in-principle permission from the Ministry of Railways. The Project’s Background: It entails the construction of semi-high-speed railways between Kerala’s two corners. It stretches over 532 kilometers. The corridor will be constructed separate from the existing […]
Context: The Bihar chief minister wants the central government to reconsider its unwillingness to conduct a caste-based census, believing that such information would enable his government to devise more targeted policies for the most vulnerable among the OBCs. The Government of India, on the other […]
What exactly is a PMI: The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) is a measure of business activity in the manufacturing and service industries. It is a survey-based measure that inquires about changes in respondents’ perceptions of important business variables from the previous month. It is calculated […]
About the NCPCR: The Commission for the Protection of Child Rights Act of 2005 was established in March 2007. It operates under the Ministry of Women and Child Development’s administrative supervision. A child is described as a person who is between the ages of 0 […]
About the NSG: The National Security Guard (NSG) is a counter-terrorism squad established in 1986 by an act of Parliament known as the ‘National Security Guard Act, 1986.’ The idea for such a force arose in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star (an Indian military […]
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 […]
