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• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 14, Aug 2021

Why we need scrappage: Older vehicles pollute the environment 10 to 12 times more than fit vehicles and pose a risk to road safetyThe objectives of the policy are:To reduce population of old and defective vehiclesAchieve reduction in vehicular air pollutants to fulfil India&rs

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 13, Aug 2021

Himalayas are the young fold mountains or V-shaped valley, caused by the collision of Indo-Australian plate with the Eurasian plate.Natural reasons of LandslipsEarthquakes: Earthquakes are often in Himalaya region which causes loosening of soils that further leads to landslides.

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 13, Aug 2021

Israel and Morocco reached a deal to establish formal ties under the U.S.brokered Abraham AccordsOther Countries having diplomatic relations under Abraham Accord: Sudan, UAE, BahrainAbout MoroccoMorocco is a North African country bordering the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterrane

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 13, Aug 2021

The GSLVF10 blasted off from Sriharikota on Thursday but could not put the satellite into orbit.Why it failed ?The cryogenic upper stage ignition did not happen due to a technical anomaly.EOS3EOS3 was the first state of art agile Earth Observation Satellite which would have been

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 13, Aug 2021

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched Ujjwala 2.0 at Mahoba Uttar PradeshUjjwala 1.0Ujjwala 1.0 launched in 2016, a target was set to provide LPG connections to 5 crore women members of BPL households.scheme was expanded in April 2018 to include women beneficiaries from s

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 12, Aug 2021

Kaziranga has become the first national park in India to have been equipped with satellite phones.Satellite phones are generally used by the law enforcing agencies.The public is barred from using satellite phones in India.About Kaziranga National ParksFormed in 1908 on th

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 12, Aug 2021

Delhi Board of School Education signed an agreement with the International Baccalaureate (IB) to adopt global practices in the field of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment at 30 schools of Delhi government during the 2021-22 session.Across the world, the IB has collaborated with a

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 12, Aug 2021

Quality of Life for Elderly Index assesses well-being of India’s ageing populationThe Index was released by Dr Bibek Debroy,Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM).The Index has been created by the Institute for Competitiveness.The report ident

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 12, Aug 2021

The 1972 Act set up the General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC).The businesses of the companies nationalised under the 1972 Act were restructured in four subsidiary companies of GIC:(i) National Insurance(ii) New India Assurance(iii) Oriental Insurance(iv) United India I

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 12, Aug 2021

Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman retires todayIn 1993, then Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah amended the court’s rules to designate him senior advocate at the age of 37.He was appointed Solicitor General in 2011.He became only the fifth lawyer in the nation’