What is the News? The Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has issued guidelines to make drone technology affordable to the stakeholders of the Agriculture Sector. These guidelines have been issued under the Sub-Mission on Agriculture Mechanization. Note: The financial assistance and grants under these guidelines would be available until March 31, 2023. What… Continue reading Government to Promote Drone use in Agriculture – Financial Support Being Extended Under ‘Sub-Mission on Agriculture Mechanization’
Cyberattacks surge amid accelerating pace of Covid-driven digitalisation: WEF study
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is the purpose of the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022?3 What are the key findings of the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022?4 What are solutions for cybersecurity suggested by the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022? What is the News? The World Economic Forum has released the report titled ‘Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022’.… Continue reading Cyberattacks surge amid accelerating pace of Covid-driven digitalisation: WEF study
Indian Tech Start-up Ecosystem: Start-ups raised a record $24.1 billion in 2021: study
What is the News? NASSCOM in association with Consultancy Firm Zinnov has released a report titled ‘Indian Tech Start-up Ecosystem: Year of The Titans’. What are the key findings of the Indian Tech Start-up Ecosystem report? More than 2,250 startups were added in the year 2021. This is 600 more than what was added in… Continue reading Indian Tech Start-up Ecosystem: Start-ups raised a record $24.1 billion in 2021: study
BRO conducts final blast concluding all excavation on Sela Tunnel Project
What is the News? Border Roads Organization(BRO) has conducted the final blast for the 980-meter-long Sela Tunnel (Tunnel 1). This marks the culmination of the excavation works on the complete Sela Tunnel Project. What is the Sela Tunnel Project? Sela Tunnel Project is located in the West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh. The tunnel is… Continue reading BRO conducts final blast concluding all excavation on Sela Tunnel Project
YEAR END REVIEW 2021: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
What is the News? A number of major initiatives were undertaken by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways during the year 2021. Several of them are PM Gati Shakti – National Master Plan (NMP) Vehicle Scrappage Policy National Highways: The pace of construction has increased from 12 km per day in 2014-15 to 37 km… Continue reading YEAR END REVIEW 2021: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Environmental Impact Assessment and the Star Rating System – Explained, pointwise
For 7PM Editorial Archives click HERE → Contents1 Introduction2 What is Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)?3 How Infrastructure projects are approved by Environmental Impact Assessment Agencies?4 About the Star Rating System scheme5 How does the Star rating system scheme hamper the Environmental Impact Assessment?6 What are the other recent steps that undermine Environmental Regulation? 7 What are the other challenges… Continue reading Environmental Impact Assessment and the Star Rating System – Explained, pointwise
Download PDF + Last Batch of Current Affairs for CSE 2022
Dear Friends, ForumIAS will be commencing with the last Pre-cum-Mains Batch of Current Affairs for CSE 2022 from January 25th. Online classes will be provided 2 days a week, geared towards coverage of Mains, till about the first week of March. Subsequently, prelims focus classes will commence from the last week of March. For the past… Continue reading Download PDF + Last Batch of Current Affairs for CSE 2022
[Download] Prelims Marathon Weekly Compilation – January, 2022 – 2nd week
Hello everyone, We are posting a compilation of Prelims Marathon for the month of January 2022 – Second week. Click on the following link to download Download About Prelims Marathon Daily Prelims Marathon is focused on UPSC Prelims 2022. Under this initiative, we post, daily 10 MCQs, based on the provided weekly schedule. For More… Continue reading [Download] Prelims Marathon Weekly Compilation – January, 2022 – 2nd week
Miscellaneous Quiz: – Laws, Bills and Miscellaneous – 24th January 2022
Hello friends,
we are posting today’s prelims marathon. Under Prelims marathon initiative, we on a daily basis are posting 10 MCQs. MCQs are framed based on the predefined syllabus topic.
The idea is to keep the number of MCQ questions to a practicable level so that you do not spend an extra minute than required, and have a maximum output for the UPSC Prelims Exam 2021.
Must Read Current Affairs Articles – January 24th, 2022
About Must Read News Articles: Must Read News Articles is an initiative by Team ForumIAS to provide links to the most important news articles of the day. It covers several newspapers such as The Hindu, Indian Express, Livemint, etc. This saves the time and effort of students in identifying useful and important articles. With newspaper websites… Continue reading Must Read Current Affairs Articles – January 24th, 2022
