INSIGHTS DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS + PIB SUMMARY- 24 October 2020

InstaLinks help you think beyond the issue but relevant to the issue from UPSC prelims and Mains exam point of view. These linkages provided in this ‘hint’ format help you frame possible questions in your mind that might arise(or an examiner might imagine) from each current event. InstaLinks also connect every issue to their static …

India launches flash flood guidance services for South Asia

Topics Covered: Disaster management. India launches flash flood guidance services for South Asia: Context: India has launched first of its kind Flash Flood Guidance services for India and other South Asian countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Under this, IMD will issue impact-based forecasting at the watershed and also city level, of floods …

Project Snow Leopard

Topics Covered: Conservation related issues. Project Snow Leopard: Context: International Snow Leopard Day was observed on 23 October. The day came into being with the adoption of the Bishkek Declaration by 12 countries on the conservation of snow leopards. HimalSanrakshak: On this day this year, the Indian government has launched community volunteer programme “HimalSanrakshak” to protect …

How and under what circumstances can the government impose stock limits?

Topics Covered: Public Distribution System objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security; Technology missions; economics of animal-rearing. How and under what circumstances can the government impose stock limits? Context: With retail prices of onion reaching nearly Rs 100 per kg in some cities, the government has invoked provisions of the Essential Commodities …

Integrity Pact in govt. organisations

Topics Covered: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. Integrity Pact in govt. organisations: Why in News? The Central Vigilance Commission has amended the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on adoption of “Integrity Pact” in government organisations for procurement …

Parliament panel mulls action against Amazon

Topics Covered: Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these. Parliament panel mulls action against Amazon: Context: Joint Committee of Parliament is examining the draft Data Protection Bill. Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google and Paytm are among the companies from whom the committee has sought views …

Insights into Editorial: Potholes on the digital payment superhighway

Introduction: Digital payments have found strong ground, especially in India, increasingly relegating all other modes of payments to the background. It is through a faster system of simultaneous debits and credits that the money value is transferred from one account to the other across banks. It embraces all kinds of operators (including direct benefit transfer …

Insights into Editorial: The many bright spots on India’s innovation horizon

  Introduction: Innovation rearranges existing elements into permutations and combinations that benefit society. In his Brāhmaphutasiddhānta, Brahmagupta’s marvellous take on his innovation of zero was, “A debt minus zero is a debt. A fortune minus zero is a fortune. A debt subtracted from zero is a fortune. A fortune subtracted from zero is a debt. …