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News: The Calcutta High Court granted interim relief to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen recently by prohibiting Visva Bharati University from acting on its decision asking him to relinquish a portion of his land at his property at Shantiniketan. Viswa Bharati University is one of India’s major Central Government funded autonomous Universitylocated in Santiniketan, West Bengal. …
Read MoreNews: 5T(Team work, technology, transparency, transformation and time ) secretary-cum-secretary to the Odisha Chief Minister recently directed officials to begin construction of the multipurpose irrigation project at Chheligada. Chheligada Irrigation Project is a multipurpose medium project being undertaken across river Badjhore, a tributary of river Vansadhara near the village Chheligada in the Gajapati District of …
Read MoreContext:The Chhattisgarh government has become only the second state in the country to recognise Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights of a village inside a national park. The CFR rights of tribals living in Gudiyapadar, a hamlet inside the Kanger Ghati National Park in Bastar district, were recognised, giving the community power to formulate rules for …
Read MoreContext: At the time of moving the Finance Bill 2023 for consideration and passage in the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the Reserve Bank has been asked to look into ways to bring credit card payments on foreign tours under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS). What is LRS? Under LRS, you can spend …
Read MoreNews: Eleven countries have collaborated to strengthen conservation efforts for migratory birds and their habitats in the Central Asian Flyway (CAF). The meeting was conducted by The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme/Convention on Migratory Species (UNEP/CMS). A flyway is a geographical region within which a …
Read MoreNews: PM recently paid tributes to Maharana Pratap on his Jayanti. Pratap Singh popularly known as Maharana Pratap, was a king of Mewar, a region in the present day state of Rajasthan. He was the eldest son of Udai Singh II founder of city of Udaipur Battle of Haldighati: It was fought on 18 June …
Read MoreNews: Finance Minister recently chaired the 27th meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC). Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) is an apex-level forum constituted by the Government of India in December 2010. FSDC is not a statutory body. No funds are separately allocated to the council for undertaking its activities. Objective is …
Read MoreNews: National e-Governance Division (NeGD), under its Capacity Building scheme, organised 36th CISO Deep-Dive training programme from 8th-12th May 2023 with 24 participants from Central Line Ministries and States/UTs at Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. The five-day intensive training programme is designed for designated CISOs from Central and State/UT Governments, subordinate agencies, including …
Read MoreNews: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has recently paid homage to Gopal Krishna Gokhale on his birth anniversary. Gokhale became a member of the Indian National Congress in 1889. He was the leader of the moderate faction of the Congress party. In 1905, he was elected president of the Indian National Congress (Benares Session). …
Read MoreParliamentary privileges are certain rights and immunities enjoyed by the Members of Parliament (MPs) under Article 105 of the Constitution, individually and collectively, so that they can ‘effectively discharge their functions’. The privileges include freedom of speech in House proceedings, freedom from arrest in civil cases for a certain period when the House is in …
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