Current Affairs

The Minister for Rural Development Shri Birender Singh has called for small watershed schemes across the country to promote a variety of economic activities including agriculture.

Shri Shashi Kant Sharma is Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of India since May, 2013. As constitutional functionary, he is primarily entrusted with the responsibility to audit the accounts of the Union Government and of the State Governments of India.

Britain on 3 Feb 2014 became the first country in the world to allow ‘Three Parent – In Vitro Fertilisation (TP-IVF)’ or ‘Three Parent Babies’.This technique will help couples with mitochondrial diseases, an incurable conditions passed down the maternal line that affect around one in 6,500 children worldwide.

With a goal of developing ‘engendered cities’, the Centre is working on mandating 50 per cent reservation for women in all the urban local bodies to promote their participation in urban policy making.

Mridaparikshak is a digital mobile quantitative minilab/soil test kit to provide soil testing service at farmers’ doorsteps.Mridaparikshak determines all the important soil parameters i.e. soil pH, EC, organic carbon, available nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur and micronutrients like zinc, boron and iron.

Operation Zarb-e-Azb is a joint military offensive being conducted by Pakistan Armed Forces against various militant groups, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jundallah, al-Qaeda, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and the Haqqani network.

Prime Minister Modi is now leading the government from the front and has directed all his MPs to aggressively defend the Bill and not be affected by the oppositions' charges.

The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank, is a multilateral development bank operated by the BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as an alternative to the existing US-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

NITI Aayog or National Institution for Transforming India Aayog is a policy think-tank of UnionGovernmentofIndia that replaces PlanningCommissionofIndia and aims to involve the states in economic policy-making in India. It will be providingstrategic and technical advice to the central and the state governments.

National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) is a proposed body responsible for the appointment and transfer of judges to the higher judiciary in India. The Commission is proposed to be established by amending the Constitution of India through the ninety-ninth constitution amendment vide the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty First Amendment Bill)...