CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 07, Oct 2021

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis."Dr. MacMillan is a professor at Princeton University in the U.S., while Dr. List is a director at the Max Planck Institute

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 07, Oct 2021

The WHO recommends the use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in subSaharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high P. falciparum malaria transmission.The WHO’s recommendation was based on the results from an ongoing pilot programme in Ghana,

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 07, Oct 2021

Uttar Pradesh is the largest emitter of PM2.5, the class of particulate matter considered most harmful to health, according to an analysis by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).The Council on Energy, Environment and Water, commonly known as CEEW, is a Delhi-based

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 06, Oct 2021

In an effort to promote indigenous & Geographical Identification (GI) tagged products, first consignment of GI tagged sweet dish Mihidana sourced from Bardhaman, West Bengal has been exported to the Kingdom of Bahrain.In August, 2021, India Post released a special cover on Wes

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 06, Oct 2021

The 8th edition of India-Sri Lanka bilateral joint exercise Mitra Shakti commenced today at the Combat Training School, Ampara in Sri Lanka.The two week long exercise is being conducted from 04 to 15 October 2021.The exercise provides an ideal platform for both contingents to sh

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 06, Oct 2021

The fifth edition of India – Japan Maritime Bilateral Exercise, JIMEX, between the Indian Navy (IN) and the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), will be held in Arabian Sea from 06 to 08 October 2021.  JIMEX series of exercises commenced in January 2012 with

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 06, Oct 2021

Union ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Jitendra Singh jointly launched a heli-borne survey for water management in arid areas of the State (Rajasthan).The survey is the outcome of an agreement between the Central Groundwater Board, Jal Shakti Ministry and the National Geophy

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 05, Oct 2021

Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB) is a joint initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).TIWB launched its programme in Seychelles on 4th October, 2021 and India was chosen as the Partner Ad

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 05, Oct 2021

U.S. scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch.This has allowed us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve impulses that allow us to perceive and adap

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 05, Oct 2021

Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya launched the ICMR’s drone response and outreach in the northeast (iDrone).This is for the first time that a ‘Make in India’ drone has been used in South Asia to transport COVID vaccine.It covered an aerial distance of 15 km in