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Current Affairs: At present, total availability of natural gas in India, including imported Liquid Natural Gas (LNG), is around 167.80 million standard cubic meters per day (mmscmd), which is projected to be around 202.97 mmscmd, 256.6 mmscmd and 271.92 mmscmd during 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 respectively. Shri Deora also said that the present demand of various priority sectors in the country is largely [...]
The Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons making the Disclosure Bill, 2010, was tabled in the Lok Sabha (a) for bringing within the scope of the Bill, public servants being the employees of the Central government or the State Government or any corporation established by or under any Central Act or any State Act, Government Companies, Societies or local authorities owned or [...]
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the IT Modernization Project – Phase-II proposal of the Department of Posts. The decision is to computerize all the Departmental and Grameen Dak Sevak (GDS) posts offices in the country. The approval has also been accorded for creation of IT infrastructure including establishment of Data Centre, Networking of the Departmental post offices, development [...]
Current Affairs Air Cargo: The target set for and the achievement made for international & domestic cargo traffic for all the airports taken together during the last three years (2007-08, 2008-09 & 2009-10) are given below: Cargo Traffic during the last 3 years
CurrentAffairs Transport: New vehicles (other than 2- and 3-wheelers) in the 13 cities , NCR (including Delhi), Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad & Secunderabad, Ahmedabad, Surat, Pune, Bangalore, Kanpur, Solapur, Lucknow and Agra are meeting B.S. III norms by 1 April 2005 and B.S. IV emission norms by 1 April 2010.
CurrentAffairs Environment: As per the Auto Fuel Policy approved by the Cabinet on 3.10.2003, the quality of Petrol and Diesel was to be upgraded to Bharat Stage-IV (equivalent to Euro-IV specifications) in 13 identified cities (Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad includingSecunderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Surat, Kanpur, Agra, Solapur and Lucknow) with effect from 1st April, 2010. In the rest of the country, BS-III Petrol and Diesel (equivalent to Euro-III specifications) [...]
Natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbons mainly methane (CH4) and is produced either from gas wells or in conjunction with crude oil production. Due to its low energy density for use as a vehicular fuel, it is compressed to a pressure of 200 – 250 bars to facilitate storage in cylinders mounted in vehicle and so it is called [...]
Current Affairs Economy: The World Bank assisted Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project has the National component and the State level components in the States of Gujarat, Orissa and West Bengal. Under the National component, the main activities include hazard mapping and establishing the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management.
Pollution and Depletion Threaten Groundwater CurrentAffairs Healthy India: The groundwater becomes polluted when toxic substances become dissolved in water at the land surface and are carried down, or leached, to the aquifer with the percolated water. The groundwater contamination is the result of human activities on the land surface. Many of these activities involve the use and disposal of chemicals [...]
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has opposed forcible acquisition of farmers’ land for both public good as well as setting up of manufacturing facilities for India Inc. without adequately compensating farming community and even making them a stakeholder in such ventures.
1. Introduction Introduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) at the Central and the State level has been considered to be a major step – an important breakthrough – in the sphere of indirect tax reforms in India. If the VAT is a major improvement over the pre-existing Central excise duty at the national level and the sales tax system [...]
Current Affairs Security Issues: Policing in our country has become increasingly complex over the years. Social tensions, religious disputes, growing economic disparities and regional, linguistic and ethnic differences have long been major challenges to effective policing in India. But of late the growing presence of non-state actors, fundamentalist groups & leftwing extremists has further complicated matters. The growing inter-linkages of [...]
Our representatives are well known for making interuptions in affairs of house which brings situation of adjourning. 14207 times Lok Sabha has been interrupted by the members and 102 times it had to adjourn. Members have shown their disagreement and make noise majorly during Women Reservation Bill, IPL issue and Price Hike.
The parliamentarians are “the foremost servants of the people” and their pays should be decided in accordance with that of the government servants. Therefore a creation of separate pay commission to decide on the pay and allowances of Parliament Members would be a healthy practice. The MPs’ salaries should be linked with some such systemic mechanism.
Geological Survey of India (GSI) has informed that scientific monitoring of 40 major Himalayan glaciers has shown that most of the glaciers are passing through a phase of persistent recession and at the present rate of recession, on an average the Himalayan glaciers are approximately losing only 0.3% of their total length ever year. GSI has also observed that at [...]
CurrentAffairs Politics: The Union Home Minister P Chidambaram warned that a new phenomenon of “saffron terrorism” involved in many bomb blasts has been uncovered.
CurrentAffairs E-needs: After the telecom revolution it is now the turn of e-initiatives to change the life of common Indian. The day is not far when the common man will be able to access and process all his needs and deeds from his desktop, laptop or palmtop. The Government is making all efforts to translate the dream of paperless governance [...]
CurrentAffairs Social Awareness: Many people are reluctant of becoming whistleblowers as they are susceptible to threats, harassment, victimization or even killed. The Government is ready with the Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons Making the Disclosures Bill, 2010 for introduction in the Parliament. The Bill inter alia provides -
CurrentAffairs WildLife: The Ministry had requested the Wildlife Institute of India and Wildlife Trust of India to undertake a feasibility study with a view to re-introduce Cheetah in India. The feasibility report has been received in which three potential sites, from amongst ten sites evaluated, have been found to be best suited for initiating the programme. These are Sahgarh landscape [...]
The last Census conducted in 2001 by the Registrar General of India which is the only authentic data in respect of number of child labour in the Country indicating 2,52,574 children working in the pan, beedi and cigarette industry. As per the NSSO Survey 2004-05, the total number of working children is 89 lakhs.
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