# NRC in Assam Only a little over a thousand doubtful cases in the final draft of the national register of citizens (NRC), Assam have been referred to the District commissioners concerned for action, the state coordinator of the NRC has said in an RTI reply. More than 19 lakh of the 3.29 crore applicants […]

# Finance ministry The centre will remit 95,082 crore rupees to states next week, double the funds due to them from the shareable pool of taxes this month to enable them to deploy more money on capital spending. Finance and corporate minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced it late on Monday after a six hours long meeting […]

# CBI, ED chiefs President Ram nath kovind on Sunday promulgated two ordinances that would allow the central government to extend the tenures of the directors of the central bureau of investigation and enforcement directorate from two years upto five years. The chiefs of central agencies currently have a fixed two years tenure but can […]

      # Gadchiroli     Atleast 26 naxals were killed on Saturday in an encounter with the Maharashtra police in Gadchiroli district. The encounter reportedly took place in the early hours of Saturday at the Mardintola forest near Korchi in Gadchiroli district. Maharashtra police has recovered 26 bodies of naxals, which may include […]

      # COP26     The 2022 edition of the conference of parties or the COP27, will take place at Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, and the 28th edition in 2023 will be held in the UAE, the council decided even as a final agreement to conclude COP26 proved elusive until the time of going to […]

      # Climate finance     India has demanded a trillion dollars over the next decade from developed countries to adapt to, and mitigate, the challenges arising from global warming. India’s five – fold plan aims at reducing the carbon intensity of its economy and eventually achieving net zero by 2070. Net zero […]

      # Union cabinet     Citing economic recovery, the union cabinet on Wednesday restored the Members of Parliament local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) that was suspended in April 2020 subsuming the funds for the scheme in the Consolidated fund of India. The scheme was suspended for two financial years (2020-21 and 2021-22) […]

      # Covid-19 cases     Daily new coronavirus cases in the country have dipped to a nine-month low, Health ministry said on Monday. There were 10929 new cases reported in the last 24 hours on saturday. The active cases were 0.43% of the total caseload and was the lowest since March 2020. […]

      # Edible oil prices     The prices of most major cooking oils dropped about 5-10 rupees a litre in Delhi and as much as 2o rupees per litre in some other cities. International edible oil prices remain high, but have stabilised over the past week. Food secretary also said that there […]

      # COP26     Leaders at the COP26 global climate conference in Glasgow have pledged to stop deforestation by the end of the decade and slash emissions of the greenhouse gas, methane, to help slow climate change. Nearly 90 countries have joined a US and EU led effort to slash emissions of […]