DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 02 October 2021 SACRED Portal for Elderly The Portal developed by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is named Senior Able Citizens for Re-Employment in Dignity (SACRED), is an online employment exchange platform to cater to senior citizens seeking job opportunities. The International Day of Older Persons is observed on 1st … Read more
DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 01 October 2021 Prime Minister POSHAN Scheme Union Cabinet has approved the Prime Minister POSHAN scheme or PM-POSHAN for providing one hot cooked meal in Government and Government-aided schools. The scheme will replace the existing national programme for mid-day meal in schools or Mid-day Meal Scheme. It has been launched for an … Read more
MONTHLY CURRENT AFFAIRS September 2021 POSHAN Maah Women and Child Development Ministry will celebrate the POSHAN Maah across the nation throughout this September under the essential POSHAN Abhiyan. Launched on 8 March 2018, POSHAN Abhiyaan, or National Nutrition Mission is the Government’s flagship programme to improve nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women, and lactating mothers. … Read more
DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 29 September 2021 World Maritime Day World Maritime Day was first celebrated on 17th March 1978 to mark the occasion of enforcing first convention of IMO in 1958 and since then every year, during last week of September, the World Maritime Day is observed globally. The significance of this day is to … Read more
DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 28 September 2021 Swachh Sarvekshan 2022 Launched Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched the seventh consecutive edition of Swachh Sarvekshan (SS), the world’s largest urban cleanliness survey conducted by Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) at New Delhi today. Designed with ‘People First’ as its driving philosophy, Swachh … Read more
DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 26 – 27 September 2021 Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Remembered Deendayal Upadhyaya (25 September 1916 – 11 February 1968) was an Indian politician and thinker of right-wing Hindutva ideology espoused by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). … Read more
DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 25 September 2021 Blue Planet Prize NHPC’s 510 MW Teesta-V Power Station located in the Himalayan State of Sikkim has been conferred with the prestigious Blue Planet Prize by International Hydropower Association (IHA), a London based non-profit membership association operating in 120 countries. The power station has been built, owned, and being … Read more
DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 24 September 2021 Parshuram Kund Shri G. Kishan Reddy lays the foundation stone for the development of Parshuram Kund in Arunachal Pradesh. The project “Development of Parasuram Kund, Lohit District Arunachal Pradesh” under the scheme was approved by the Ministry of Tourism with the cost of Rs 37.88 crores in January 2021. … Read more
DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 23 September 2021 International Day of Sign Languages International Day of Sign Languages is celebrated annually across the world on 23 September every year along with International Week of the Deaf. The choice of 23 September is the same date that the World Federation of the Deaf was established in 1951. Ministry … Read more
DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 22 September 2021 National Conference on Accessible Elections The Election Commission of India today organised a virtual National Conference on Accessible Elections 2021 with the objective to assess the present accessibility policies and discuss strategies for addressing barriers to enhance participation in electoral process for voters with disabilities. The virtual conference was … Read more
