CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 17, Aug 2021

Why in news: SC raises query on Tribunal Reforms BillThe Bill seeks to dissolve certain existing appellate bodies and transfer their functions (such as adjudication of appeals) to other existing judicial bodiesTransfer of functions of key appellate bodies as proposed under

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 17, Aug 2021

Why in news: No cut in excise duty on petrol, diesel for now; have to pay for past oil bonds: FM SitharamanOil bonds are issued by the government to compensate oil marketing companies (OMCs), fertilizer companies and the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for losses borne by them in

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 16, Aug 2021

Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment to Flag-Off ‘Operation Blue Freedom– Land World Record at Siachen Glacier’‘Operation Blue Freedom’ brings India on the global stage as a leader in empowering DivyangjanA team of people with disabilities fr

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 16, Aug 2021

The Parsi New Year begins with the first day of Farvardin, the first month in the Zoroastrian calendar.The day is also known as Jamshed-i-Nouroz, after the Persian king Jamshed who is believed to have introduced the Parsi calendarAcross the world, Navroz is celebrated at the tim

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 15, Aug 2021

BRICS Agriculture Research Platform has been developed by IndiaPurpose: To promote cooperation in the areas of agricultural research, extension, technology transfer, training and capacity building.India has the BRICS Chair for 2021BRICS countries are well-positioned to take a

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 15, Aug 2021

The aim of the Ramsar list is “to develop and maintain an international network of wetlands which are important for the conservation of global biological diversity and for sustaining human life through the maintenance of their ecosystem components, processes and benefits&rdquo

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 15, Aug 2021

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni stayed Rule 9(1) and Rule 9(3) of the new IT RulesInformation Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021The Rules have been notified under the Information Technology Ac

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 14, Aug 2021

Bharat Biotech's intranasal vaccine is the first nasal vaccine that has received the regulatory approval for Phase 2 trials.BBV154 is an intranasal replication-deficient chimpanzee adenovirus SARS-CoV-2 vectored vaccine.BBIL has in-licensed technology from Washington Univers

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 14, Aug 2021

IndiGau is India’s first Cattle Genomic Chip for the conservation of pure varieties of indigenous cattle breeds like, Gir, Kankrej, Sahiwal, Ongole etc.This indigenous chip was developed by the scientists of National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NAIB), HyderabadIt is

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 14, Aug 2021

The manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of following single-use plastic, including polystyrene and expanded polystyrene, commodities shall be prohibited with effect from the 1st July, 2022:-(i) ear buds with plastic sticks, plastic sticks for balloons, plastic