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Why in News?Reserve Bank of India(RBI) had issued guidelines banning the storage of customer card numbers by online merchants and payment aggregators and introducing the concept of Tokenization. These guidelines were scheduled to come into effect on 1 January but have now been postp

Why in News?Department of Food & Public Distribution notified modified scheme to enhance ethanol distillation capacity in the country for producing 1st Generation (1G) ethanol from feed stocks such as cereals (rice, wheat, barley, corn & sorghum), sugarcane, suga

Why in News?PM has recently addressed the India-Australia Circular Economy Hackathon (I-ACE)What is Circular Economy?It is an economy where products are designed for durability, reuse and recyclability and thus almost everything gets reused, remanufactured, and recycled i

Why in News?The Zoological Survey of India has recently started tagging  endangered Olive Ridley Turtles in Odisha.The scientists have recently tagged some turtles in Bay of Bengal.These tags are made of aluminum.Key Facts:According to ZSI, it will

Why in News?The Punjab and Haryana High Court has declared Sukhna lake (Chandigarh) as a living entity .What is legal entity?A legal entity means entity which acts like a natural person but only through a designated person, whose acts

Why in News?The Central government is working on the establishment of an exclusive body to implement projects for linking rivers- To be called the National Interlinking of Rivers Authority (NIRA). Functions of NIRA:It is expected to take up both inter-State and intra

Why in News?A recent study by scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) states that the black carbon concentrations near the Gangotri glacier rose 400 times in summer.What is Black carbon?It is a potent climate-warming component of particu

Why in News?Recently ,Jia Rai, a 12-year-old girl from a naval family, swam 36 km to create awareness about autism spectrum disorder.What is Autism?Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder is a lifelong developmental disability that manifests itself during the first t

Why in news?the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, headed by BJP MP P.P. Chaudhary, has  recently presented its final report on the upcoming bill in both Houses of Parliament on 16 December.Key recommendations:Remove the word &lsquo

Why in News?Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech last year proposed a panel on the “age of a girl entering motherhood” to lower maternal mortality rates and improve nutrition levels.But when the decision to appoint a task force was annou