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EU’s vaccine travel pass discriminates against low-income countries

Context The introduction of Covid-19 vaccines has opened up opportunities to help revive travel. However, it is important to carefully design policies that help revive travel demand. Vaccine certificates Many countries like China and Israel have introduced vaccine certificates that ease the process of entering and travelling across the destination country for vaccinated travellers. Can… Continue reading EU’s vaccine travel pass discriminates against low-income countries

[pib] What are PRIDE Guidelines?

The Union Ministry for Science & Technology has released “Biotech-PRIDE (Promotion of Research and Innovation through Data Exchange) Guidelines” developed by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT). Biotech-PRIDE These guidelines aim at providing a well-defined framework and guiding principle to facilitate and enable sharing and exchange of biological knowledge, information and data. They will facilitate this… Continue reading [pib] What are PRIDE Guidelines?

The epoch of cyberweapons

Context The controversy over the use of Pegasus spyware for snooping highlights the threats posed by cyber-weapons. The emergence of the cyber weapons epoch Cyberattacks on institutions such as banks and on critical infrastructure have proliferated to an alarming extent, signaling the emergence of the cyber weapon epoch. Privacy has been eroded and the Internet… Continue reading The epoch of cyberweapons

[pib] Various initiatives for Minorities

The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs has informed about various initiatives for minorities. A brief of the schemes/programmers being implemented by the Ministry for the educational/economic empowerment of Minority students/candidates are as under: Educational Empowerment Scholarship Schemes: Pre-Matric Scholarship, Post-Matric Scholarship and Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship. Maulana Azad National Fellowship Scheme: It provides financial assistance to… Continue reading [pib] Various initiatives for Minorities

[pib] 14 Indian Tiger Reserves get Global CA/TS recognition

The Environment Ministry has released the names of the 14 tiger reserves that had received the accreditation of the Global Conservation Assured|Tiger Standards (CA|TS), an accreditation tool agreed upon by tiger range countries. Conservation Assured | Tiger Standards (CA|TS) CA|TS has been agreed upon as an accreditation tool by the global coalition of Tiger Range… Continue reading [pib] 14 Indian Tiger Reserves get Global CA/TS recognition

[pib] Centre launches Secured Logistics Document Exchange (SLDE) and GHG Calculator

With an aim to further improve ease of doing business, Centre today launched the “Secured Logistics Document Exchange” along with a Calculator for Green House Gas Emissions. Secured Logistics Document Exchange (SLDE) The SLDE platform is a solution to replace the present manual process of generation, exchange and compliance of logistics documents with a digitized,… Continue reading [pib] Centre launches Secured Logistics Document Exchange (SLDE) and GHG Calculator

What is National Farmers Database?

The Centre’s new National Farmers Database will only include land-owning farmers for now as it will be linked to digitized land records. National Farmers Database The Central government had proposed an Agristack initiative to create a digital database that focuses on farmers and the agricultural sector. As part of the first step of this initiative,… Continue reading What is National Farmers Database?

What is Academic Bank of Credit?

On the first anniversary of the National Education Policy (NEP), the Centre plans to officially roll out some initiatives promised in the policy, such as the Academic Bank of Credit Academic Bank of Credit Academic Bank of Credit referred to as ABC is a virtual storehouse that will keep records of academic credits secured by… Continue reading What is Academic Bank of Credit?

Telangana’s Dalit Bandhu Scheme

Telangana CM has recently been informed to spend Rs 80,000 crore to Rs 1 lakh crore for Dalit Bandhu Scheme, touted as the country’s biggest direct benefit transfer scheme, to empower Dalits across the state. Dalit Bandhu Scheme Dalit Bandhu is the latest flagship program of the Telangana government. It is envisioned as a welfare… Continue reading Telangana’s Dalit Bandhu Scheme

[pib] SMILE Scheme

The Government has approved a comprehensive scheme named “Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise (SMILE)” which includes a sub-scheme for Comprehensive Rehabilitation for Welfare of Transgender Persons. About SMILE Scheme This scheme is a sub-scheme under the ‘Central Sector Scheme for Comprehensive Rehabilitation of persons engaged in the act of Begging’. It also… Continue reading [pib] SMILE Scheme

Unlocking recovery

Context Many developed countries are poised for strong growth. This will compel their respective central banks to begin normalizing the extremely loose monetary policies. This will require a reorientation of India’s stimulus strategy. Global growth momentum On the global front, the growth momentum has been strong, particularly in the US and China, although recent data… Continue reading Unlocking recovery

Organ Transplantation in India

The Government of India is implementing National Organ Transplant Programme (NOTP) to promote organ donation and transplantation across all States/Union Territories (UTs). National Organ Transplant Programme (NOTP) In 2019, the GoI implemented the NOTP for promoting deceased organ donation. Organ donation in India is regulated by the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994.… Continue reading Organ Transplantation in India

Revival of Construction sector

Context The latest estimates of the fourth quarter of financial year 2020-21 (January-March) brought some relief, for policymakers. Interpreting the construction sector GVA increase The construction sector showed a 15 per cent increase in gross value added (GVA) in the last quarter, which is nearly double the growth experienced by the sector in the previous year… Continue reading Revival of Construction sector

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