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Raisina Dialogue: President of the European Union Ursula Von Der Leyen is the chief guest at the Dialogue. The three-day Dialogue is based on the theme – Terranova, impassioned, impatient, imperiled. There are six broad thematic pillars of the Dialogue including Rethinking Democracy, End of Multilateralism, Water Caucuses, and Achieving Green Transitions. Raisina Dialogue willRead more

Fincluvation: India Post Payments Bank (IPPB), a 100% government owned entity under Department of Posts (DoP) has announced the launch of Fincluvation– a joint initiative to collaborate with Fintech Startup community to co-create and innovate solutions for financial inclusion. Fincluvation is an Industry first initiative to create a powerful platform to mobilize the start-up communityRead more

Green Ammonia: It is produced by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using an electrolyzer powered by renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.Recently, the Ministry of Power has notified Green Hydrogen/Green Ammonia Policy for production of Green Hydrogen or Green Ammonia using renewable sources of energy. Under the policy, the government is offeringRead more

Vagsheer: Vagsheer, the sixth submarine of the P75 project of the Indian Navy was launched recently. It is the last of the Scorpene class submarines made under the P75 project. Under P75, INS Kalvari, INS Khanderi, INS Karanj and INS Vela have been commissioned. Sea trials are on for Vagir. Vagsheer is named after theRead more

NATPOLREX-VIII: It is the 8th edition of the National Level Pollution Response Exercise. Conducted by Indian Coast Guard (ICG) off Mormugao harbour, Goa. The objective of NATPOLREX-VIII is to enhance the preparedness and response capability of all the stakeholders in combating marine spills. It aims at validating the procedures and guidelines as contained in theRead more

Vidya Samiksha Kendra:The Command and Control Centre, or Vidya Samiksha Kendra are set up by the Gujarat Education Department in Gandhinagar.It tracks enrolment, attendance, learning outcomes, drop-outs, school accreditation and monitors schools, teachers and block and cluster resource centreco-ordinators.This state of the art data driven centre is based on the National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR)Read more

Oil Bonds: An oil bond is a promissory note issued by the government to the oil marketing companies (OMCS), in lieu of cash that government owes them.N When fuel prices are high for consumers, government directs oil marketing companies (OMCS) to charge consumers less prices and the balance is to be paid by the government.Read more

National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP): In India, the idea of asset monetisation was first suggested by the Vijay Kelkar committee(2012) on the roadmap for fiscal consolidation. The Central Government announced the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) in August, 2021. The project has been developed by NITI Aayog. Objective: To serve as a roadmap for the asset monetisationRead more

Ujama: Ujamaa ideology focused heavily upon the practices of communal living and brotherhood. Even though it was necessary that Tanzania became an independent economy, the local practices of Ujamaa promoted reliance upon communities. The most important part of society according to Ujamaa ideology was the community. Former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere propagated the Ujama ideology.Read more

SVANIDHI SE SAMRIDDHI: .SVANidhi se Samriddhi, additional program of PM SVANidhi (Prime Minister Street Vendors AtmaNirbhar Nidhi), launched in January 2021 in 125 cities in Phase 1, covering approximately 35 Lakh Street vendors and their families. Later, post success of phase 1, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched the program expansion with anRead more