Current Affairs

The Parliament has passed the National Waterways Bill 2015. Under the bill, a total of 106 rivers and rivulets will be developed for transportation. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had approved the official amendment of the National Waterways Bill, 2015, last December.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana - Scheme for Providing Free LPG connections to Women from BPL Households.

The Union Cabinet has given its approval to the US $ 1,500 million project of World Bank Support to Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) [(SBM(G)].The Project basically provides for incentivising States on the basis of their performance in the existing SBM-G.

1. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents Union Budget for 2016-17 Highlights are:2. Concealed Income Disclosure Scheme from June 1 to September 303. 3Higher allocation for agriculture, infrastructure and social sectors.4. No change in Income Tax rates; Relief to small tax payers up to Rs 5 lakh; Surcharge hiked from 12 to 15.

From bewilderment of patients to the outrage of pharmaceutical companies threatening to drag the government to court, the March 12 notification banning 337 combination of drugs has caused a flutter in the country.

The border-guarding forces of Bangladesh and India conducted their first-ever joint exercise in the riverine borders of the Sundarbans. In an attempt to bring in more synergy in coordinated border management, border-guarding forces of Bangladesh and India conducted their first-ever joint exercise in the riverine borders of the Sundarbans.

India will be making only incremental improvement to its military infrastructure along the border with China, even as its most ambitious plan for dealing with the neighbour's military prowess is stuck because of a resource crunch. Military officers describe the China strategy as 'timid'...

The Mars probe, the first of a two-phase exploration of the Red Planet by European and Russian scientists, is scheduled to be blasted into space on a Proton rocket from Baikonour cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday. — File Photo: AFP Space engineers are making final preparations for the launch of a robot spacecraft designed to sniff out signs of life on Mars.

After China and the US, which have been hit by 26 and 22 disasters respectively last year, India is the most affected country having suffered 19 disasters in 2015, according to a study released by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

Indian women are no longer “passive recipients” of the state’s welfare schemes, but active agents of change. Real development is only possible with their economic empowerment, the Supreme Court has observed in a judgment. They had become “dynamic promoters of social transformation that can alter the lives of both women and men.”

The newly set up Blue Economy Strategic Thought Forum India, under the auspices of the National Maritime Foundation defines the blue economy as “marine-based economic development that leads to improved human wellbeing and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities”.

Pakistan has replaced Bangladesh to emerge as the largest buyer of Indian cotton in the October-December 2015 quarter on the back of a sharp decline in its domestic availability due to widespread crop damage from whiteflies Data compiled by the Textiles Commissioner's office ...