Table Of Contents Labour code reforms CRISPR test External debt World’s worst food crisis Arsenic and fluoride pollution Schemes to bridge the demand-supply gap of skilled workers Protection against SARS-COV2 short lived Official Secrets Act 1. Labour code reforms Subject: Economy Context: Government has introduced three Labour Codes in the Lok Sabha […]
Context: The Delhi police has arrested a under the Official Secrets Act (OSA). Concept: OSA has its roots in the British colonial era. The original version was The Indian Official Secrets Act (Act XIV), 1889. This was brought in with the main objective of muzzling the voice of a large number of newspapers that had come up in […]
Increasing instances of reinfection has proved that herd immunity through natural infection cannot eliminate SARSCOV 2.The only safe and effective way to achieve herd immunity is through vaccination. Concept: The immunity derived from infection do not last for life long.
Subject: Schemes Context: The Government is implementing various sector/group specific schemes for bridging the gap between demand and supply of skilled workers. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has been implementing the following schemes/programmes Concept: Pradhan MantriKaushalVikasYojana (PMKVY) imparts short term skill training to youth and recognition of prior learning of informally trained labour […]
Subject: Environment Context: The number of arsenic-affected habitations in the country increased by 145 per cent in the last five years, according to data shared with the Parliament September 18, 2020. Concept: Most of the arsenic-affected habitations lie in the Ganga and Brahmaputra alluvial plains; in the states of Assam, Bihar, UP and Bengal. Assam had […]
Subject: IR Context: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was facing the world’s largest food crisis, with around 21.8 million of its people being food insecure primarily due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, a report released by the Global Network Against Food Crises alliance of humanitarian agencies said. Concept: The indirect impact […]
Subject: Economy Context: India’s total external debt increased by 2.8 per cent to USD 558.5 billion at the end of March mainly on account of a rise in commercial borrowings, according to a report released by the Finance Ministry. Findings: External debt as a ratio to GDP rose marginally to 20.6%, from 19.8 %, ‘India’s […]
Subject: Science and tech Context: The Tata CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) test, powered by CSIR-IGIB(Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology) FELUDA, received regulatory approvals from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for commercial launch. The Tata CRISPR test is the world’s first diagnostic test to deploy a specially adapted Cas9 protein to […]
Subject: Economy Context: Government has introduced three Labour Codes in the Lok Sabha heralding the path of game changing labour welfare reforms in the country. These bills are (i) Industrial Relations Code, 2020, (ii) Code on Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions Bill, 2020 (iii) Social Security Code, 2020. It was mentioned that the Code […]