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Rythu Bandhu Scheme: The Rythu Bandhu scheme, also known as the Farmer’s Investment Support Scheme (FISS), is a welfare programme for farmers started by the Telangana government in 2018.The objective of this scheme is twofold:   to provide a timely cash grant for the initial investment needs of farmers  to ensure that farmers do not fallRead more

e-SCR portal: It was an initiative by the Supreme Court (SC) of India to provide the digital version of the apex court’s judgements in the same manner they are reported in the official law report. It provides free access to about 34,000 judgements of the SC to lawyers, law students, and the common public. TheseRead more

Credit Guarantee Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) Scheme: It was launched in 2000. The corpus of CGTMSE is being contributed by the Government of India and the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in the ratio of 4:1.Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) is jointly set up byRead more

Psyche Mission: It is a NASA mission that will explore a 140-mile-wide (225-kilometer) metallic asteroid called 16 Psyche. The spacecraft will enter the 16 Psyche asteroid’s orbit in 2029 and spend two years mapping the asteroid’s topography, scanning the surface, taking pictures, and more, with the aim of gaining information about its makeup as wellRead more

International Tropical Timber Council: Recently, the 59th International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC) concluded on November 17, 2023, with major decisions. It is the governing body of the International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO).It meets at least once a year to discuss a wide-ranging agenda aimed at promoting sustainable tropical forest management and the trade of sustainablyRead more

Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE): It is a first-of-its-kind NASA experimental attempt aimed at studying the interactions between terrestrial and space weather. It is planned under NASA’s Heliophysics Explorers Programme. This mission will study the links between how waves in the lower layers of the atmosphere impact the upper atmosphere and, thus, space weather. It willRead more

1) 9th schedule of the Constitution: Bihar government asked Centre to include recently amended laws (raising caste-based quotas from 50% to 65%) in 9th schedule. It was added to Constitution by 1st Constitutional Amendment (1951) under Article 31B. Central and state laws included in 9th schedule cannot be challenged in courts for violation of FundamentalRead more

1) E-commerce cargo movement via National Waterway-1: Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) and e-commerce company Amazon signed an MoU for customer shipments via inland waterways using the river Ganga (National Waterway 1). Ganga (National Waterway 1) stretch from Haldia (Sagar) and Prayagraj (1620 km) It was declared as National Waterway-1 (NW-1) in 1986. 24Read more

1) Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8) nations: External Affairs Minister has said that India’s engagement with the NB-8 nations has significantly strengthened in recent years. NB8 is an informal (non-institutionalized) regional cooperation format established in 1992 that includes The five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) and The three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania)Read more

1) India Australia RISE Accelerator program: Atal Innovation Mission (NITI Aayog) and Australia’s national science agency (CSIRO) launched Rapid Innovation and Startup Expansion (RISE) accelerator program. It will support Australian and Indian circular economy startups and small-to-mid-sized enterprises (SMEs). A circular economy entails markets that give incentives to reusing products, rather than scrapping them andRead more