The Supreme Court declared that the evaluation criteria adopted by the Indian Army to consider the grant of permanent commission(PC for women officers to be “arbitrary and irrational“. The Court directed the Army to reconsider the pleas of women Short…
Month: February 2021
Australian Open: Novak Djokovic beats Daniil Medvedev
Novak Djokovic beats Daniil Medvedev,a 7-5 6-2 6-2 win, an incredible ninth Australian Open 2021.Djokovic now has 18 majors, two behind Federer and Nadal. LEARNING FROM HOME/ WITHOUT CLASSES/ BASICS In tennis, the term Grand Slam refers to the accomplishment of…
Naomi Osaka Beats Jennifer Brady at Australian Open 2021 for Her 4th Grand Slam Title
Japan’s Naomi Osaka, beat Jennifer Brady 6-4, 6-3 at the Australian Open. She has won every Grand Slam final she has reached. She is 4 for 4 in Grand Slam finals, a feat achieved in the Open era only by…
ISRO’s PSLV-C51 launch : Learning Basics
Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) launched the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C51, with a load of a primary satellite called Amazonia-1 and it belongs to Brazil from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC). The…
Government to allow all types of steel to be used for highway construction
Union Government announced that the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has issued orders that all types of steel will be allowed for the construction of highways in the country. The Ministry in statement said ,” all steel to be…
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan: Frontier Gandhi
February 6 marks the 131st birth anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, legendary Pashtun freedom fighter and pacifist a Pakhtun or Pathan from the North West Frontier Province, now called Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Frontier Gandhi, as Ghaffar Khan was popularly known, led a…
WORLD WETLAND DAY: FEBRUARY 2
World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2 February. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar. The theme for World Wetlands Day 2021 is ‘Wetlands and Water’….
15th Finance Commission: Recommendations/ Basics
The Fifteenth Finance Commission recommended that India reduce its headline fiscal deficit to 4% in the next five fiscals ;commission, led by NK Singh said in its report. The commission has recommended states to bring down their combined fiscal deficit…