News Snippets

Here we have presented those contemporary developments which do not require detailed study; rather it is sufficient to read them in brief while preparing for the examination. Instead of including such developments in the initial regular columns of the magazine, we have presented them separately in this section.

1 Fast Track Immigration Trusted Traveller Programme (FTI-TTP)

2 General Anti-avoidance Rule (GAAR)

3 Enemy Agents Ordinance, 2005

4 e-Samridhi Portal

5 NIPL Partnership with Central Reserve Bank of Peru

6 Container Port Performance Index (CPPI)

7 Front Running

8 External Debt of India

9 Variable Rate Repo (VRR)

10 Bio-bitumen

11 Safai Apnao, Bimaari Bhagao Initiative

12 Poori Padhai Desh Ki Bhalai

13 Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM)

14 Saubhagya Scheme

15 Ram Prasad Bismil

16 Jyotirmath

17 Kabir Das

18 Nouka Baich Boat Race

19 Indiconema

20 Paraparatrechina Neela

21 Spot Bellied Eagle Owl

22 New Plant Species Discovered

23 World’s Oldest Termite Mounds

24 Pushpak

25 Chang'e-6

26 Nagastra-1 Drones

27 'Vidyut Rakshak'

28 Sensorineural Hearing Loss

29 Agnibaan

30 Resolve Tibet Act

31 New Members of UN Security Council

32 Colombo Process

33 Netherlands Is India's Third Largest Export Destination

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