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Draft Electricity (promoting renewable strength via Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2021 circulated.

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The Power Ministry has circulated the Draft Electricity (promoting renewable electricity through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2021.

These policies are proposed to buy and consume inexperienced electricity, including the power from Waste-to-Energy Plants.

The inexperienced power draft policies have supplied important points such as Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO); Green electricity open access; Nodal Agencies; Procedure for furnishing of inexperienced electricity open access; Banking; and go subsidy surcharge.

The draft regulations state inexperienced hydrogen is the hydrogen produced by the usage of electricity from renewable sources.

The Indian was adopted on 22nd July 1947, in its existing shape (horizontal rectangular tricolour) in the course of an assembly of the Constituent Assembly, 23 days earlier than Indias Independence. It grew to be the reliable countrywide Flag of the Dominion of India on 15th August 1947.

Present Flag is based totally on the Swaraj flag, a flag of the Indian National Congress designed by using Pingali Venkayya.

After quite a few changes, the Tricolour was once adopted as our countrywide Flag at a Congress Committee assembly in Karachi in 1931.

Constitutional & Statutory Provisions concerning National Flag of India: Art 51A(a) To abide by way of the Constitution and recognize its beliefs and institutions, the National Flag & the National Anthem.

Rules governing the show of the Tricolour: The Flag Code of 2002 is divided into three parts: 1-a well-known description of the tricolour, 2-rules for show of the Flag by means of governments and authorities bodies, 3-rules on show of the Flag by way of public and personal our bodies and instructional institutions.

Ashoka Chakra is the wheel of the regulation of dharma. Chakra intends to exhibit that there is LIFE IN MOVEMENT and demise in stagnation.

The saffron colour denotes renunciation of disinterestedness.

The white in the core is Light, the course of reality to inform our conduct.

On August 15, 2021, the fundamentalist Islamic pressure known as the Taliban entered Kabul after gaining control over an awful lot of the US following the withdrawal of US troops.

Taliban had dominated Afghanistan from 1996 till 2001 when US troops toppled. This team had sheltered Osama bin Laden as he deliberate the Sept. 11 assault of 2001.

Talibans manipulation over Afghanistan now poses a new danger to the US’s whole political and social order as nicely as its allies.

The Islamic pressure referred to as Taliban have been established in southern Afghanistan. Mullah Mohammad Omar was once the founder of the group. He used to be a member of the Pashtun tribe who grew to become a mujahideen commander. He helped in pushing the Soviets out of the country in 1989. Later in 1994, Mullah Omar fashioned the crew in Kandahar with 50 followers. They captured Kandahar and seized Kabul in 1996 and imposed strict Islamic rules. These policies banned tv & music, stopped Women from going to college and pressured females to put on burqas.

American troops invaded Afghanistan in the year 2001 and toppled the Talibans management when the Taliban refused US demand to hand over bin Laden.

The Taliban are battling towards the U.S.-backed authorities in Kabul. They are seeking for to reimpose their strict model of in Afghanistan.

Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada (Pashtun from Kandahar) is presently the chief of Taliban in Afghanistan. A Council of leaders has been set up by the Taliban based totally in Pakistan referred to as Quetta Shura. It publishes the groups decisions.

The Taliban makes cash by way of Afghanistans unlawful drug trade. They impose taxes on poppy growers and heroin producers in the areas of Afghanistan it controls. They additionally impose taxes on agencies and function unlawful mines. Besides, it receives funding from supporters in Pakistan and the Gulf.

The Control Bureau (NCB) and states destroyed 1. 4lakh kg of drugs worth Rs 2,378 crore on Monday with Home ministerAmit Shahpresiding over the operation virtually from Delhi. With the latest round, the quantity of drugs destroyed in the past year reached 10 lakh kg, worth Rs 12,000 crore.

Shah said 1,250 cases were registered between 2006 and 2013, while 3,700 cases were registered in nine years from 2014 to 2023, which was an increase of nearly 300%.

Shah highlighted how India had, at an international level, replaced the terms Golden Triangle and Golden Crescent with Death Triangle and Death Crescent.

A survey of Metro rail commuters in Delhi, Bengaluru and Nagpur has revealed that poor access or last mile connectivity is responsible for lower-than planned ridership in these high capital-intensive transport systems. It has also found that while over 70% of the metro rail commuters walk or cycle to reach a station in Nagpur, in Delhi its barely 39% and in Bengaluru (66%).

Delhi has the highest share of passengers using low capacity shared mode of transport such as e-rickshaw andGrameen Sewavehicles. In all three survey cities, walking and shared modes constitute over 75% of the total last-mile mode-share, which indicates that low cost, shared Services and pedestrian play a key role in last-mile connectivity for Metro users.

The working paper on Improving Metro Access System published by the WRI India andToyota Mobility Foundation(TMF) has recommended that transport planners must understandthe demand on the last-mile corridor and the last-mile vehicle service capacities must be aligned with this demand to offer financially viable high frequency services.

The third Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting under Indias G20 Presidency concluded in Gandhinagar on Tuesday with a G20 Chair Summary and Outcome Document comprising 26 paragraphs and 2 Annexes.

Managing global debt vulnerabilities is a significant priority area for 2023, reflecting the Indian Presidencys endeavour to voice the concerns of the Global South, said the outcome document of the meeting read. The Indian Presidency has brought the Digital Public Infrastructure agenda into the G20 discussions.

Road accidents top cause for youths, kids death worldwide; India loses 1.5 m lives every year: FICCI-EY report

Road accidents claim around 1.5 million lives in India every year, contributing 11 per cent to the total number of such fatalities globally, according to a FICCI-EY report.

Globally, at least one life is lost every 24 seconds due to road traffic injury, said the report

As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), road crash is the 8th leading cause of death with more than 1.3 billion deaths and 50 million serious injuries. It is the leading cause of death amongst youth and kids aged 5 to 29 years, it said.

India is a signatory to Brasilia Declaration which aims to half the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by 2030.

Global and residence advisory company Henley & Partners has ranked Pakistan as a nation with the fourth worst passport in the world. According to the report, Pakistanis had access to 35 countries with an on-arrival visa facility until January this year which has now come down to 33, The News International reported.

The nation of over 220 million stands at the 100th position among the 227 countries rated on the index, the results of which are estimated via the number of destinations that their residents can access without possessing a prior visa.

India ranks 80th on the list with 57 countries that give on-arrival visa facilities to Indians. Meanwhile, Singapore leads the index as possessing the most-coveted passport in the world pushing Japan, leading the list for the last five years, to the third position shared with South Korea, Austria, Finland, France, Luxembourg and Sweden granting their citizens access to 189 destinations without a prior visa.

The Henley Passport Index, which ranks 199 passports based on International Air Transport Association (IATA) data, is regularly updated to reflect changes in visa policies. The Average number of visa-free destinations, over the years, for travellers has nearly doubled from 58 in 2006 to 109.

GeM is implementing the SAHAY project in collaboration with the Indian Software Product Round Table (iSPIRT), a non-profit tech think tank’s volunteer team.

The GeM-SAHAY portal can be used to provide frictionless financing for MSMEs on the Government eMarketplace, allowing them to obtain a loan at the Point of Order acceptance on the GeM platform.

The SAHAY platform is affiliated with the country’s leading lenders.

Using the portal, the loan payment will be instant, rather than the traditional principle of approving the loan, which usually does not end with the actual payment.

The GeM SAHAY platform is lender agnostic,’ allowing any lender that is duly regulated by the Reserve Bank Of India to participate and provide capital and smart collection accounts to GeM sellers.

Minister of Tribal Affairs, Shri Arjun Munda, inaugurated Second National Sickle Cell Conclave on the occasion of World Sickle Cell Awareness Day 2021 on 19th June.

This conclave is held to mark world Sickle Cell Day each year. It is being organised with the aid of Ministry of Tribal Affairs in association with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), Apollo Hospitals, Novartis, Piramal Foundation etc. It will prepare discussions about brand new advances and future traits in remedy of SCD on vulnerable patient Population.

SCD is the most regular inherited blood sickness or a genetic red blood cell disorder. People with sickle cell issues dont have sufficient wholesome red blood cells which lift Oxygen throughout the body.