# COVID-19 Vaccine   The covid-19 vaccine intelligence network (CO-WIN) system, a digitised platform, will be used to track the enlisted beneficiaries and the covid-19 vaccine on a real time basis. Covid-19 operational guidelines has been released by the health ministry recently. According to guidelines, latest electoral roll for the Lok sabha and assembly […]

  # Assam sex ratio   The sex ratio in Assam is now skewed in favour of females, The National family health survey (NFHS) for the 2019-20 (NFHS-15) has revealed. The TFR of Assam has dipped from 2.2 children per woman in NFHS-4 to 1.9 in the latest survey. According to NFHS-5, Assam saw 1012 […]

  # Climate change   A virtual climate action summit is being organised to mark the five years since the signing of the paris agreement on climate change in 2016. Under this agreement, 190 countries had committed to taking action to limit global temperature from rising beyond 2 degrees celsius. Addressing this summit, Prime minister […]

  # Indian economy   India’s industrial output grew at the fastest pace in october 2020 at 3.6%. Consumer durables production surpassing levels last seen prior to the covid-19 pandemic. This data is released as per quick estimates from the national stastistical office (NSO). Electricity generation grew 11.2% in october compared to a 12.2% decline […]

  # New parliament building   On 10th December, ground breaking ceremony of the new parliament building was done by PM Narendra modi . The ceremony included an all faith prayer and rituals by priests from the Sringeri sharda peetham, Karnataka. PM modi said, the new parliament building will be the amalgamation of the new […]

# Public wifi networks   The union cabinet on wednesday approved a proposal for setting up public wifi hotspots across the country via public data offices or PDOs. These PDOs could even be a kirana shop or paan shop. This move is aimed at helping accelerate the uptake of broadband internet services. The PDOs will […]

# Mount Everest   Nepal and China jointly announced the new height of mount everest at 8848.86 metres in a high profile virtual ceremony. This high profile virtual ceremony was conducted with presidents of China and Nepal exchanging letter and the foreign ministers in attendance. Mount Everest is known as Sagarmatha in Nepal and mount […]

# Farmer’s protest   Today is the bharat bandh call by farmers between 11am – 3pm. 24 political parties have supported this bandh call. Five terrorists, two linked to khalistani separatism and three linked with kashmir based islamic terrorist organisations have been arrested by Delhi police.     # Central vista project     The […]

# Rat hole mining     Moolamylliang, a village in the East jaintia hills district of meghalaya, has become the only village in large area of jaintia district affected by rat hole mining to be a green village. The national green tribunal (NGT) has banned rat hole mining in april 2014. But most of these […]

# RBI     The Monetary policy committee (MPC) of the reserve bank of India on friday left benchmark interest rates like repo rate and reverse repo rate unchanged and retained an “accommodative” stance. This step signifies the priortizing of support for the economy over “sticky” inflation amid the covid-19 pandemic. RBI also projected that […]