International Financial Services Centres Authority? ✓Establishment: It was established in April 2020 under the International Financial Services Centres Authority Act, 2019. It is headquartered at GIFT City, Gandhinagar in Gujarat. ✓Functions: The Authority shall regulate all such ...

Positive Side of Freebies in India ✓Foundation for Welfare Schemes: Freebies not only include unviable pre-election promises but also a number of services that the government provides to meet its constitutional obligations (Directive Principles of State Policy) towards citizens like Public ...

Government’s Initiatives: for Employment generation ✓Support for Marginalized Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise (SMILE) ✓PM-DAKSH (Pradhan Mantri Dakshta Aur Kushalta Sampann Hitgrahi) ✓Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) ✓Pradhan Mantri Kaushal ...

✓The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was introduced in Lok Sabha by the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, on December 11, 2019. ✓Commonly referred to as the “Privacy Bill”, it intended to protect individual rights by regulating the collection, movement, and processing of ...

What are the Initiatives Related to Food Security and Gender Equality? Global: ✓International Women’s Day (8th march) ✓UN Women ✓UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025) ✓Sustainable Development Goal (2) of ‘Zero Hunger’. ✓World Food Programme (WFP) ✓Global Hunger Index ...

Kerala to have its own regional red list of birds- ✓Kerala will soon have its own red list of birds. ✓Once it gets ready, Kerala will be the first State to have a region-specific red list of birds. ● About the  Regional Bird Red list: ✓The Kerala Bird Monitoring Collective led by ...

India’s Initiatives: ( REDUCTION OF TOBACCO CONSUMPTION) ✓Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003: It replaced the Cigarettes Act of 1975 (largely limited to statutory warnings- ‘Cigarette Smoking is Injurious to Health’ to be displayed on cigarette packs and advertisements. It ...

What is financial institution ✓A financial institution is an umbrella term for a company dealing with financial and monetary transactions, including loans, deposits, and/or investments. ✓All India Financial Institutions (AIFIs) are regulated and supervised by the Reserve Bank of India. ...

The Chabahar Port ✓Trilateral Transit and Trade Agreement signed in May 2016 between India, Iran and Afghanistan. ✓Under the agreement signed between India and Iran in May 2016 , India is to equip and operate two berths in Chabahar Port Phase-I with capital investment of USD 85.21 million ...

Economy: Energy Trade between India and Iran ✓India-Iran commercial ties have traditionally been dominated by Indian import of Iranian crude oil. ✓India is the second largest buyer of Iranian crude after China and Iran was the third largest supplier of crude to India (April-Sep 2016). ...