Eastern Peripheral Expressway The Prime Minister inaugurated the two expressways in the Delhi NCR Region- Phase-I of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway and Eastern Peripheral Expressway. The Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE) will…

NIFTEM: NIFTEM is the brainchild of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI)Government of India. It was created to cater to the needs of various stakeholders such as entrepreneurs, food…

Floor test A floor test is primarily taken to know whether the executive enjoys the confidence of the legislature. It is a constitutional mechanism under which a Chief Minister appointed…

Anti-Defection Law The 52nd Amendment, which came into force in 1985 when Rajiv Gandhi was Prime Minister, inserted the Tenth Schedule in the Constitution, popularly known as the ‘anti-defection law’, which laid…

GRACE mission: The GRACE mission was selected as the second mission under the NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program in May 1997. Launched in March of 2002, the GRACE…

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) It is part of the United Nations Secretariat and is responsible for the follow-up to major United Nations Summits…

Green Skill Development Programme The Union Environment Ministry launched its full-fledged Green Skill Development Programme(GSDP) that aims to train over 5.5 lakh workers in environment and forest sectors in the country through…

Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 It is an act to provide for more effective protection of the rights of Women guaranteed under the Constitution who are victims…

Whale shark Whale shark, the largest living species of fish, comes under the category ‘endangered’ in The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. In India, the migratory…