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Current Affairs Environment: Shivalik hills will be notified as country’s first interstate biosphere reserve with the setting up of a biodiversity corridor there to protect its natural habitat and flora and fauna. This will be the first interstate biosphere reserve so far…as it will involve several states like Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Uttarakhand Biosphere Reserve is [...]
Current Affairs Gender Equality: Despite signs of progress in gender equality over the past 15 years, there is still a significant gap between women and men in terms of job opportunities and quality of employment, according to a new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The report, entitled Women in labour markets: Measuring progress and identifying challenges, says that more [...]
Banking Sites See Strong Growth as More Indians Turn to the Web for their Personal Financial Needs ComScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) released its June 2010 ranking of the top Business/Finance sites in India based on data from its comScore Media Metrix service. The study found that 19.7 million Internet users in India visited Business/Finance sites, representing a 45-percent increase from [...]
Current Affairs Health: India is undergoing rapid dietary transition. High economic growth has resulted in a burgeoning middle-class having greater access to commercially available foods, including fried and baked food items. Most of these foods contain high amounts of Trans Fatty Acids (TFAs), particularly if cooked in vanaspati (partially hydrogenated vegetable oils) which is often preferred for its low cost and [...]
As per the latest inventory of Geological Resources of Coal in India by the Geological Survey of India, 1471 Million Tonnes of Geological Resources of coal have so far been estimated in the NE region. Of this, 388, Million Tonnes are in Assam and 576 Milliion Tonnes in Meghalaya. In Assam three opencast mines viz., Tirap OC, Tikak OC and [...]
Current Affairs Banking: The major barriers for poor to access appropriate financial services are lack of education, low and irregular income, mandatory requirements of documentation and product design factor. Promoting technological and institutional innovation as a means to expand financial system access and usage, including addressing infrastructure weaknesses could provide an answer to the above barriers. Today there is no dearth [...]
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM) has proposed to all state governments including their respective municipalities to make it mandatory in all corporate offices, sports complexes, schools, colleges, cinema halls, government organizations, RWAs (resident welfare associations) and all public conveniences to introduce fumigation practices to keep off mosquito menace at a tolerable level, thereby, preventing spread of infectious [...]
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