Current Affairs
Lucky Grahak Yojana & Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana
The Union Government has launched Lucky Grahak Yojana to encourage consumers and Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana to encourage merchants for transition to digital payments. These award based schemes were launched by the NITI (National Institution for Transfor...
Bank Sakhi Scheme
The Karnataka Vikas Grameen Banks (KVGB) has come up with ‘Bank Sakhi’ innovative scheme for employing women in villages to promote and improve the cashless transactions in rural areas. The Bank Chairman S.Ravindran revealed that the b...
Malaria Elimination Programme DAMAN
The Odisha Government recently decided to launch a new Malaria Control Program, DAMAN, in remote tribal-dominated areas. Odisha has 62 types of tribes including 13 primitive tribes that constitute 22.3 percent of the State’s population. The ...
Bio-Diesel Buses
In an effort to reduce pollution caused by diesel buses, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has launched 25 bio-diesel buses in the state. These eco-friendly buses will ply on four routes, including Tirupati and Chennai. Costing aroun...
Indian Enterprise Development Services
The Union Cabinet gave its approval to the Cadre review and formation of a new service in the name of Indian Enterprise Development Services (IEDS). Decision in this regard was taken by the Union Cabinet meeting presided by Prime Minister Narendra Mo...
National Mathematics Day
The National Mathematics Day is observed every year on 22nd December to celebrate the birth anniversary of great Indian autodidact Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. This year, it is 129th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan. About Srinivasa...
Bunkar Mitra Handloom Helpline Centre
The Union Ministry of Textiles has decided to establish a Bunkar Mitra-Handloom Helpline Centre where experts in the field of textiles will answer professional queries of weavers. This helpline initially will be provided in 7 languages viz., English,...
India’s position
In India, women formed 60% of the lowest paid wage labour, but only 15% of the highest wage-earners. It means that women are not only poorly represented in the top bracket of wage-earners but also gender pay gap at the bottom is also very wide in Ind...
International Labour Organisation (ILO) Report
Recently released Global Wage Report 2016-17 released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has found that India suffers from huge gender pay gap. It shows that India has among the worst levels of gender wage disparity (men earning more than...
Kisan Diwas
The National Farmers Day (or) Kisan Diwas is observed on December 23 every year to commemorate the memory of Chaudhary Charan Singh, the 5th Prime Minister of India from 28th July 1979 until 14th January 1980. He served as the Deputy Prime Ministe...
