- EcoPill3B-Intl-Orgs: India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (IndAus ECTA-2022) 😍 Zero duty access for Indian exports to Australia: Engineering goods, gems and jewellery, leather, textiles, apparel, footwear- total 96% of India’s exports to Australia. 😍 Zero duty access [...]
- Polity: Rights issues- The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022- to replace the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920. It’ll authorise the police to take “measurements” to tag those who have been convicted, arrested or detained. e.g. Police can take [...]
Polity - Polity: Federalism / PRI: Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2022 → 1) replacement of the word “government” with “Central government” in all places. So, this basically takes the Delhi government out of the picture completely when it [...]
4 Days Current: Polity NEWS From 21-22-23-24 March ( nothing so great / exam worthy so I don’t feel making a video for it ) Polity - Polity: Local Bodies- Articles 243 provide for OBC reservation in local bodies. [...]
- 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 [...]
- ISRO’s 1st launch of 2022: EOS-04 satellite using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C52) from Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. 1,700kg EOS-04 satellite to the placed in sun-synchronous polar orbit, some 529 km from the Earth's surface. sun-synchronous polar orbit is [...]
Polity: Rights issue /freedom of speech/ movie making: defence ministry refused a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for a movie showing “GAY relationship between an Army officer and a local Kashmiri boy”. Defence ministry can do so for protecting the [...]
- History/Culture: 10th century Vedic philosopher and social reformer Ramanujacharya. Born in 1017 in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu. February 2, 2022: 1,000th birth anniversary of Ramanujacharya. Statue of Equality near Hyderabad. Made up of ‘panchaloha’, a combination of five [...]
Polity: secularism/Rights issues- Freedom of religion, dress and beard: Article 25(1) of the Constitution guarantees the “freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practise and propagate religion”. It is also a negative liberty — means that the [...]
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 [...]