Attempt following quiz to check your understanding regarding You are encourage to attempt the quiz first then go through the article. [WpProQuiz 53] Introduction: Report is published jointly by Ministry of Health and Family welfare and Ministry of Tribal affairs. Dr Abhay Bang chaired this committee Components of the report: Life expectancy Reproductive, maternal ,Newborn, child […]
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Attempt following quiz to check your understanding regarding Global Report on Trafficking in Person-2018. You are encourage to attempt the quiz first then go through the article. [WpProQuiz 52] The 2018 UNODC Global Report on Trafficking in Persons is the fourth of its kind mandated by the General Assembly through the 2010 United Nations Global Plan of Action to
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Attempt following quiz to check your understanding regarding National Health Authority. You are encourage to attempt the quiz first then go through the article. [WpProQuiz 51] WHY IN NEWS: The union government has dissolved the National Health Agency and constituted National Health Authority. Construction and More about NHA: It has been attached to the Ministry
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Attempt following quiz to check your understanding regarding ASER report. You are encourage to attempt the quiz first then go through the article. [WpProQuiz 49] Introduction ASER (Annual Status of Education Report) is an annual survey that aims to provide reliable annual estimates of children’s schooling status and basic learning levels for each state and
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Introduction One of the most feared word among economist and government is “recession”. All central banks (across globe) work in sync to avoid possible recession scenarios by taking necessary corrective steps time to time. In this article, we will dig deep on how and why do a country goes into recession, and what can it
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Introduction GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is one of the most important metric in measuring economic position of any country. It is calculated as market value of all goods and services produced over a period of time (often annual). Do you know one of the best sources of Nabard grade a books and reading material are
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There are many tribes in India, each possessing a distinctive culture and tradition. Sentinelese belongs to few remaining isolated tribes in the world. It is believed that they are a direct descended from the first human populations to emerge from Africa and have inhabited the Andaman Islands for more than 60,000 years. What is a Tribe?
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The East Asia Summit (EAS) is a unique regional forum of 18 countries of the Asia-Pacific region, established to promote regional peace, security and prosperity. EAS has grown into a platform for strategic dialogue and cooperation on political, security and economic issues. EAS is an initiative of ASEAN and is based on the premise of
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In India urban areas are considered as “engines of inclusive economic growth”. According to 2011 census 31% of population lived in urban areas, this is estimated to grow to 60% by 2030. Indian cities have been infamously given the title of ‘overgrown villages’ because of lack of proper infrastructure and accessibility to basic services. In
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See also: NBFC crisis in India Background In 1987 IL&FS was formed by three financial institutions, Central Bank of India, Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) and Unit Trust of India (UTI), to provide loans for major infrastructure projects. After few years two big international institutions, namely Mitsubishi (through Orix corporation Japan) and the Abu Dhabi
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A Non Banking Financial Institution or Non Banking financial company is a financial Institution that does not have a full banking license and not regulated as stringent as Banks are. They provide banking and financial services like loans, credit facilities, retirement planning, investing and stocking in money market. Example – Muthoot Finance, LIC Housing Finance,
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Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry releases the FDI Policy Circular whenever there is a big change in the FDI policy of the government. In this article, you will find concise information regarding FDI allowed in various sector. This information becomes handy in Exams like RBI GRADE B, UGC
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Background: USA has imposed sanctions on Iran which covers Iran’s energy and banking sector and disallowed any countries to deal with Iran in these two sectors USA has granted exemptions to the eight countries including India, China, Italy, Japan, Turkey, South Korea, Greece, Taiwan from the sanctions. US has also said that these two Asian
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It is estimated that imports bill of electronics will overtake the imports bill of oil by 2022 in India; only 30-40% of the electronic products are manufactured domestically. Indian electronics industry is one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the world. In 2015, despite global slowdown it reached a market value of $75
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Indian Rupee standing against Dollar is not hidden from anybody – Crashing day by day. See the above chart. Presently Dollar value is hovering between Rupee 73 and Rupee 74. It was somewhere around Rupee 59 in May 2014. From there it has climbed to around 74 during the recent time (a jump of around
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Decision/ Observation Kept Policy rates unchanged to previous level Repo rate = 6.5% Reverse Repo rate = 6.25% MSF rate = Bank Rate = 6.75% LAF corridor = 0.25% Policy Rate Corridor = 0.5% Stance -> Calibrated Tightening. GDP growth projection retained at 7.4% as was on August (3rd) Monetary Policy. Lowered inflation projection for
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In this article, we will try to understand what is REPO, Reverse REPO, Bank Rate and then we will discuss relationship among them. This is important to understand not only from exam perspective ( RBI Grade B, UPSC- CSE, and other banking exams) but to comprehend the basic economy news. Repo Rate and Reverse Repo
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Recently RBI has announced its 2nd monetary policy for FY 2018-19. It has increase Policy rate and takes a neutral stance. These are important information, but from exam perspective (exams like RBI Grade B, UPSC) the background of these policies are important. Few questions which has been asked in UPSC CSE prelims and RBI Grade B
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On April 18, 2018 , N. S. Vishwanathan, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India delivered a speech at National Institute of Bank Management, Pune. His title of speech was “It is not Business as Usual for Lenders and Borrowers” . in his speech he has talked about the new circular of February 12, 2018 (Resolution
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(You may watch the video describing this article on https://youtu.be/EDvDqrjOovs) Background Whenever a river passes through more than two states there are very high chances of dispute on water sharing. To handle this type of inter-state water dispute there is an Interstate River Water Dispute Act, 1956. This was enacted during the time of reorganization of
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