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What is food fortification?According to the WHO, fortification is the process of increasing the content of an essential micronutrient, such as vitamins or minerals, in a food item to improve its nutritional value and provide public health benefits at minimal cost.It ha

Reference News-‘Cooperation has failed, but cooperation must succeed,’ wrote the All India Rural Credit Survey Committee in 1954. This verdict came five decades after the first cooperative legislation of 1904. The Governor of the Madras Presidency

Reference News:The Rajya Sabha has passed the Dam Safety Bill, 2019.The Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on 2 August, 2019.Concerns raised:The bill is too focused on structural safety and not on operational safety.There is inadequate compensation to the people affe

Reference News:The Government has brought in few changes in its negative imports list policy. This includes:The armed forces will now be able to import defence equipment in certain circumstances even if it figures in the negative import list.This includes scenarios where

Reference News:Bihar is planning to conduct State-specific caste-based exercise. This comes after a delegation of Bihar leaders led by CM had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to hold caste census in the country but later, the Central Government had

Reference News:The deadline for completing projects under the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) has been extended for all 100 participating cities to June 2023 due to the delays caused by COVID-19 and based on a NITI Aayog recommendation in August.Smart Cities mission:GoI launch

Reference News:Union Culture Minister recently made the following recommendation regarding the Paika Rebellion :“The 1817 Paika rebellion of Odisha could not be called the first war of Independence, but considering it as the beginning of a popular uprising against the

Reference News:US has said that China’s pursuit of hypersonic weapons "Increases tensions in the region" and vowed the U.S. would maintain its capability to deter potential threats posed by China.What’s the issue?China’s growing military muscle and

Reference News:After a delay of three years, come March 2022, passengers will be able to use a face scan as their boarding pass at four airports in the country.Airports at Varanasi, Pune, Kolkata and Vijaywada will be the first to roll-out the facial recognition technology-based

What is the issue?Tensions have flared in Eastern Europe and on the Belarusian-Polish border with thousands of asylum seekers attempting to enter Poland.Why is there a refugee crisis?Politicians in West and East Europe accuse Moscow as instigator of the crisis amid claims that