Governance
Supreme Court to Look into Govt. plea for Access to WhatsApp chats
The Supreme Court has decided to examine whether social media intermediaries, such as Facebook and WhatsApp chats, should facilitate the state to access encrypted and private conversations of citizens, purportedly to fight crime and terror. Context : The court is waiting for the Centre to notify the revised Information Technology Intermediaries Guideli... .Read more
Updated on 23 October, 2019 GS2 Polity Governance
National Framework For Environmental-Flows of Rivers
Seeking to ensure the minimum flow of waters round-the-year in rivers across India, the Centre is working to have a national framework for implementation and monitoring of environment-flows of rivers in the country. An uninterrupted flow of water in any river is important not only to keep it clean through its natural ecological functions and processes ... .Read more
Updated on 22 October, 2019 GS2 GS3 Governance Environment
Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme (PM-NDP)
Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme (PM-NDP) - The government may soon establish peritoneal dialysis services across states to provide door-step dialysis services for kidney patients. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Guideline The Union ministry of health and family welfare has set guidelines under the Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Pro... .Read more
Updated on 22 October, 2019 GS2 Governance
E-Portal of CCRT ‘Digital Bharat Digital Sanskriti’
Union Minister of State for Culture & Tourism (IC) launched the E-Portal of CCRT ‘Digital Bharat Digital Sanskriti' and CCRT YouTube Channel. Context: The efforts of CCRT will enable the dissemination of cultural education through digital interactive medium into classrooms all over the country. For this initiative, CCRT has tied up with Route... .Read more
Updated on 22 October, 2019 GS2 Governance
Issue Of Milk Safety - FSSAI Survey
The issue of milk safety came into light when the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) released the National Milk Safety and Quality Survey 2018. A survey found a surprise with the presence of Aflatoxin M1 residues beyond permissible limits in 368 out of 6,432 samples that is 5.7% of the samples. About 93% of the samples were found sa... .Read more
Updated on 22 October, 2019 GS2 Governance Health and Family wellfare
Australian Newspapers Redact Front Pages To Protest Curbs
Australia’s biggest newspapers ran front pages made up to appear heavily redacted in protest curbs against legislation that restricts press freedoms. Australia has no constitutional safeguards for free speech, although the government added a provision to protect whistleblowers when it strengthened counter-espionage laws in 2018. The media protest o... .Read more
Updated on 22 October, 2019 GS2 Polity Governance Current Affairs
