- IR/Defense: Japan- 2018: PM Modi went to Japan. 2019: Japanese PM was to come to India but programme cancelled due to CAA protests. 2020: Corona. 2022: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited. 😍 (2014) Investment Promotion Partnership for [...]
- Polity: secularism: Karnataka High Court hijab verdict (2022): Q1) wearing the hijab is part of essential religious practice in Islamic faith under Article 25 of the Constitution? Karnataka HC Ruled: NO! wearing of the hijab by Muslim women [...]
- EcoPill3A-BoP/Intl-Trade: $5 bn dollar-rupee swap. E.g. Axis bank will buy US Dollars from the RBI (e.g. at $1:75) & simultenously Axis agrees to RE-SELL those dollars back to RBI (e.g. at $1:76) at the end of the Swap [...]
- EcoPill1A1-Digital Payments: NPCi’s new unique payments interface (UPI) technology- for developing mobile apps for money transfer. Even if there is a non-smart phone (Featurephone- with number pads) money can be sent by USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) code [...]
Science Corona: World Health Organisation (WHO) had designated Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) as a “variant of concern (VOC)”. First reported from South Africa. Also found in Israel and Belgium. Botswana and Hong Kong. दक्षिण अफ़्रीका से पाया गया कोरोना वायरस [...]
Polity: 6-Rights issues/Edu/NE/Regionalism: MEGHALAYA CHIEF Minister Conrad Sangma exhorted the state’s youth to learn Hindi to be able to “cross the language barrier” and get employed in other parts of India. What do the youth need? Pride? Self-esteem? For [...]
Defense: Award: COLONEL BIKUMALLA Santosh Babu was on awarded the Maha Vir Chakra – the country’s second-highest military gallantry honour – posthumously for leading the fight against Chinese soldiers during a clash between the two armies on June 15, [...]
EcoPill1A1-Digital Payments: Collins Dictionary’s “Word of the Year” for 2021 is “NFT” — an abbreviation that stands for “non-fungible token” An NFT, according to Collins Dictionary, is a “unique digital certificate, registered in a blockchain, that is used to [...]
Economy Current Affairs from Nov-Week3 1A1-Money-💳:- EcoPill1B2:Bad Loans: RBI Jayant Kumar Dash WORKING group on digital lending thru websites/app. need a separate law for regulating this. Setup Self-Regulatory Organisation (SRO). Money must be transferred from lender to borrowers account [...]
History Culture History/Culture🗿:- History: Dimasas (or Dimasa-Kacharis) are the earliest known rulers and settlers of Assam. Prior to Ahom rule, the Dimasa kings — believed to be descendants of the rulers of the ancient Kamarupa kingdom — ruled large [...]
Science Technology 6-Corona😷:- Corona: THE FIRST known Covid-19 case was a market vendor in the Chinese city of Wuhan, not an accountant who worked in lab. Says WHO study. Thus, SARS-CoV-2 virus had probably been transmitted from bats to [...]
Election:- Polity: Election-Referendum. SWITZERLAND legalised same-sex couples after Swiss voters expressed in a referendum. Previously Referendums 1) BREXIT 2) CATALONIA-Spain. (स्विट्ज़रलैंड में जनमत संग्रह द्वारा समलैंगिक विवाह को मंज़ूरी) Executive:- Polity: comparing constitutions: Executive-US PRESIDENT Joe Biden will undergoes [...]
all India judicial services: Under the Constitution, the power to make appointments to the lower judiciary vests with the states. Currently, states conduct their own exams based on vacancies. AIJS was first mooted in the 1950s - All India [...]