PANEL APPROVES SCHEME TO ‘TRADE’ IN FORESTS
Why in news? The Forest Advisory Committee, an apex body tasked with adjudicating requests by the industry to raze forest land for commercial ends, has approved a scheme that could allow “forests” to be traded as a commodity More information It allows the Forest Department to outsource one of its responsibilities of reforesting to nongovernment […]
U.P. TOPS IN CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
Why in news? The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) published the annual Crime in India Report 2018 Details of the report According to the report, 3,78,277 cases of crime against women were reported, up from 3,59,849 in 2017. Uttar Pradesh topped the list with 59,445 cases, followed by Maharashtra and West Bengal. Conviction rate The […]
DECLARE GOA SANCTUARIES AS ‘TIGER RESERVE’
Why in news? Activists and politicians from Goa have demanded that certain areas in wildlife sanctuaries of the State be notified as ‘tiger reserve’. The demand has come following the death of four tigers in Mahadayi Wildlife Sanctuary. Name of WLS The State government had sent a proposal to the Centre according to which, about […]
FOREIGN ENVOYS IN J&K ON A FACT-FINDING VISIT
Why in news? A 15 member foreign envoys’ delegation arrived in Srinagar on a two day visit to J&K and met over 100 people, including senior Valley based politicians, top newspaper editors and grassroots representatives. Why did they come? They were seeking a feedback on the ground situation post the revocation of the State’s special […]
PIB 9th January
Contents: LAWS AGAINST HUGE ELECTION EXPENDITURE MILAN 2020 RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR PM – KUSUM LAWS AGAINST HUGE ELECTION EXPENDITURE Why in news? Expressing serious concern over rising money power eroding the credibility of the country’s democratic polity, Vice President of India and Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has called for effective laws […]
Week 1 Case study Answer
Action should be as follows: 1. Park the car- so that no disturbance to the traffic 2. Reach the spot where the man is beating the girl and immediately stop him and ask him not to beat or take law in his hand. Thank him for taking notice of the theft and taking action, but […]
PM – KUSUM
Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan was launched for grid-connected RE power plants (0.5 – 2 MW)/ Solar water pumps/ grid connected agriculture pumps Installation of 10,000 MW of Decentralized Ground Mounted Grid Connected Renewable Energy Power Plants by farmers of 500 kW to 2 MW capacity within 5 km distance from sub-station primarily on […]
MILAN 2020
Why in news? Feb 2016, the City of Destiny Visakhapatnam is gearing up to host another International Naval event ‘MILAN’ in March 2020 More about MILAN MILAN 2020 is a multilateral naval exercise aimed to enhance professional interaction between friendly foreign navies and learn from each other’s strengths and best practices in the maritime domain. […]
LAWS AGAINST HUGE ELECTION EXPENDITURE
Why in news? Expressing serious concern over rising money power eroding the credibility of the country’s democratic polity, Vice President of India and Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has called for effective laws of Parliament in quick time and simultaneous polls to check the menace. Shri Naidu noted that it is a […]
RSTV BIG PICTURE : ENSURING WATER SECURITY
Why in news? Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently released the operational guidelines of Jal Jeevan Mission which is centre Govt’s initiative to provide Functional Household Tap Connections to every rural household by 2024. Details Out of 17.87 crore rural households in the country about 14.6 crore which accounts for 81.67 percent are yet to […]