National Cybercrime Reporting Portal

The National Cybercrime Reporting Portal was launched in 2019 by the Ministry of Home Affairs for providing citizens with centralised mechanism for online reporting all types of cybercrimes. the incidents reported in this portal are converted into FIRs by the ..

Saheli Samanvay Kendra

Saheli Samanvay Kendra is a scheme announced by the Delhi government for empowering women. Under this new scheme, 500 anganwadi hubs will be established for the incubating individual startups and for promoting the growth of self-help groups. The scheme is ..

Gender Budget

The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy recently announced that his government would be the first come up with a Gender Budget concept during this year’s budget. The Gender Budget will involve the presentation of data related ..

Stand Up India scheme

Launched on April 5, 2016, Stand Up India scheme seeks to promote entrepreneurship among women and SC & ST communities. It facilitates credit accessibility from Scheduled Commercial Banks for at least one SC/ST borrower and one women borrower per bank ..

Dustlik-II

Dustlik-II is a bilateral military exercise between India and Uzbekistan. This exercise would be held in India between March 10 and 19. This 10-day long exercise will seek to enhance military cooperation between the two countries. The focus will be ..

Gliese 486b

Glise 486b is a newly discovered ‘super Earth’ that is located just 26.8 light years away from constellation Virgo. It is one-fifth of the Sun’s mass and three times the size of the Earth. It revolves around the dwarf star ..

Yarlung Zangbo

Yarlung Zangbo is the Tibetan name of the Brahmaputra River. China’s draft five year plan for the period 2021 to 2025 has approved the construction of hydropower bases on the lower reaches of the river for the first time. Lower ..

Outcome budget

Outcome budget is a tool to link budgeting with outcomes. It was first introduced in 2005 and involves the performance assessment of each department and the development outcomes of their programs. Recently, the Delhi government presented its 2020-21 outcome budget ..

Hafnium attack

Hafnium attack is a cyberattack by a Chinese state- backed hacker group called the Hafnium group. Recently, the group attacked Microsoft’s business e-mail software, Exchange, by exploiting its security flaws. The group has targeted at least 60,000 victims around the ..

Mission Vatsalya

Mission Vatsalya or Vatsalya Maatri Amrit Kosh was launched by the ministry of health and family welfare. It is a scheme to promote breastfeeding and thereby reduce infant mortality. Under this mission, a national human milk bank and lactation counselling ..