Daily Archives: October 18, 2022

PRADAN MANTRI KISAN SAMRUDDHI KENDRAS

Launches Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan UrvarakPariyojana – One Nation One Fertiliser Dr Mansukh Mandaviya says PM has always worked with ‘Total Approach’ for Agriculture sector The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated PM KisanSammanSammelan 2022 at Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi today. The Prime Minister also inaugurated 600 …

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NATIONAL MARITIME HERITAGE COMPLEX AT LOTHAL

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will review the site work progress of the National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, Gujarat on 18th October 2022 at around 5 PM via video conferencing. This will be followed by his address on the occasion. Lothal was one of the prominent cities of the …

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TOKENISATION OF CREDIT/DEBIT CARDS BY RBI

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has mandated the tokenisation of credit/debit cards for online merchants from October 1. Tokenisation “refers to the replacement of actual card details with an alternative code called the ‘token’, which shall be unique for a combination of card and the token requestor (i.e. the …

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ONE NATION, ONE FERTILIZER’ SCHEME

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated 600 KisanSamridhiKendras and ‘One Nation, One Fertilizer’ scheme and said that these steps were being taken to modernise agriculture. The KisanSamridhiKendras would function as helping centres for farmers in this process, he added. The PM was speaking at a conclave of farmers and …

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OXFORD POVERTY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

About 41.5 crore people exited poverty in India during the 15-year period between 2005-06 and 2019-21, out of which two-third exited in the first 10 years, and one-third in the next five years, according to the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released on Monday. The report produced by the United …

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12TH EDITION OF DEFEXPO

India has undertaken a transformative journey from being the largest defence importer to an exporter, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday at the curtain raiser event of the 12th edition of DefExpo in Gandhinagar. Two major conclaves, the second edition of both the India-Africa Defence Dialogue (IADD) and the …

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INDIA TO HOST GLOBAL MEET ON INVESTMENT IN TOURISM SECTOR

India will hold a global meet on investments into its tourism sector and a conference on business tourism next year, cashing in on its G-20 presidency which begins from December. The investment meet would be held in Delhi in January-February and the participants would include stakeholders in tourism from all …

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POLICYMAKING WITH RESPECT TO INFLATION

India’s latest inflation data present policymakers with a fraught choice: whether to respond to the latest acceleration in retail price gains to a five-month high with more sizeable interest rate increases, or pause the monetary tightening so as to allow fragile growth to gain more traction. Inflation figures based on …

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CYBER THREAT IN INDIA

As the 21st century advances, a new danger — the cyber threat — is becoming a hydra-headed monster. It is hardly confined to any one domain though the military is the one most often touted. Rather, it is the civilian sphere where the cyber threat is becoming more all-pervading today …

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FIRST CYCLONE OF MONSOON FORMING OVER ANDAMAN SEA

FIRST CYCLONE OF MONSOON FORMING OVER ANDAMAN SEA After an uneventful southwest monsoon, this year’s first cyclone during the monsoon season is brewing over the South Andaman Sea and its neighbourhood and is expected to bring copious rain to Kerala during or soon after Deepavali. The cyclone, if it intensifies …

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