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Why in News?More than a year after the Union Cabinet approved a proposal to amend the list of Scheduled Tribes in Arunachal Pradesh, Parliament last week passed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill 2021.Background:The Bill seeks to amend the nom

Why in news?In order to boost domestic defence and aerospace manufacturing, Ministry of Defence (MoD) has launched Defence Testing Infrastructure Scheme (DTIS) with an outlay of Rs 400 crore for creating state-of-the-art testing infrastructure in partnership with the private indus

Why in News?Union Minister Earth Sciences has launched a web-based application named “Digital Ocean”.Digital Ocean: It is a first of its kind digital platform for ocean data management developed by Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services(INCOIS).

Why in news?Vadodara Municipal Corporation(VMC) is expected to launch municipal bonds and will become the third Urban Local Body(ULB) in Gujarat to use municipal bonds to raise money.Facts:Ahmedabad was the first city in South Asia to launch a municipal bond in 1998 which was

Why in News?The Centre has proposed amendments to the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 that will enable it to “maintain the database of registered birth and deaths at the national level”.Proposed amendments by the Centre:It is proposed tha

Why in News?Environmental think tank Council on Energy, Environment and Water has carried a first-of-its-kind district-level climate vulnerability assessment, or Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI), in which it has analysed 640 districts in India to assess their vulnerability to extre

Why in news?The government has launched a nationwide expansion of Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) as a part of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.It was for the first time in the country

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 int

Why in News?The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) is organising an online event on 25th June, 2021 to commemorate 6 years of the launch of three transformative Urban Missions vis. Smart Cities Mission (SCM), AMRUT and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U),

Why in News?After the pandemic, access to technology has become crucial in ensuring public health and safety, as information and access to health care have moved online.Key points:According to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA), over 390 million women