'Responding to rising food insecurity, World Bank’s private sector investment arm, the International Finance Corp. (IFC) has launched a new, $6 billion financing facility to strengthen private s Read More...
'The Ministry of Cooperation and the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) have planned a Multipurpose PACS in every Panchayat which will do the work of distribution of Dairy, FPO, Agriculture and G Read More...
'The World Bank’s report titled “Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course” provides the first comprehensive assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on poverty Read More...
'Moonlighting or employees working for remuneration with entities other than their employers has been a hot topic in recent months.' During the pandemic, those with desk jobs had more time on their Read More...
'The Nobel Peace Prize for 2022, awarded to a jailed Belarus civil rights activist, and a rights organisation each in Russia and Ukraine, puts the focus on Russia’s war in Ukraine, now in its ei Read More...
'French author Annie Ernaux won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature for blending fiction and autobiography in books that fearlessly mine her experiences as a working-class woman to explo Read More...
'IN an effort to check wasteful expenditure, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has rightly recommended to the government changes in election laws to bar candidates from contesting more than one s Read More...
'The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon commence limited pilot launches of the digital rupee for specific use cases.' The Reserve Bank of India has been exploring the pros and cons of a central Read More...
'Measures under ‘stage-1’ of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) will be enforced in the national capital region with immediate effect.' The measures that kick in with immediate effe Read More...
'Recently, 22 Standing Committees were reorganised.' Parliamentary Standing Committees are permanent committees, it is constituted every year, and work continuously as against non-permanent Ad-hoc Read More...
