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 NDTL regains the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accreditation   ✅World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has restored the accreditation of the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL), which was suspended in 2019 because of its failure to comply with global standards. ✅The NDTL is based in the national capital and can resume testing with immediate effect. ● WADA Suspension ✅India is currently third in the WADA's global list of dope violators, led by Russia. ✅The suspension of the NDTL had prohibited it from carrying out any anti-doping activities, including all analysis of urine and blood samples. ✅The WADA first suspended NDTL in August 2019 for a period of six months and extended the de-recognition period after its inspections showed that non-conformities existed. ✅During the suspension period, urine samples collected by NADA were being sent primarily to the WADA-accredited lab in Doha. ✅The process had made the anti-doping programme very expensive for the country because of the si...

ESG funds ✅The asset size of ESG funds has ballooned nearly five times to Rs 12,300 crore over the last couple of years. ✅Environment, social responsibility, and corporate governance have of late emerged as key themes for investors in India. ✅The demand and growth for ESG funds in Asia, especially in India, has been overwhelming, it is 32%. ● What are ESG Funds? ✅They are used synonymously with sustainable and socially responsible investing. ✅While selecting a stock for investment, an ESG fund shortlists companies that score high on environment, social responsibility, and corporate governance, and then looks at financial factors. ✅With the overall increase in awareness, and with regulations moving in this direction, investors are re-evaluating traditional approaches and considering the impact of their decisions on the planet. ✅The key difference between the ESG funds and other funds is 'conscience ' i.e the ESG fund focuses on companies with environment-friendly practices, ethi...

 ASIGMA 🖌Indian Army launched a contemporary messaging application named ASIGMA. 🖌ASIGMA stands for Army Secure IndiGeneous Messaging Application. 🖌It is a new generation, state-of-the-art, web based application developed entirely in-house by team of officers of the Corps of Signals of the Army. 🖌The application is being deployed on the Army’s internal network as a replacement of Army Wide Area Network messaging application which has been in service for the past 15 years. 🖌The application has been fielded on Army owned hardware.  🖌It has a variety of contemporary features including multi-level security, message prioritisation and tracking. 🖌This future ready messaging application will meet real time data transfer and messaging requirements of the Army.

 GDP or Gross Domestic Product GDP or Gross domestic product refers to total market value of all the final goods and services produced in an economy in a given period of time. For India, this time period is from 1st April to 31st March. This means it measures the value of final goods and services produced within a geographic boundary regardless of the nationality of the individual or firm. For instance, cars manufactured in India by Japanese company will be included in Indian GDP. Similarly, the Jaguar cars manufactured in UK by Tata will not be counted in India’s GDP. It refers to only final output of such goods and services. The rule that only finished or final goods must be counted is necessary to avoid double or triple counting of raw materials, intermediate products, and final products. For example, the value of automobiles already includes the value of the steel, glass, rubber, and other components that have been used to make them. To be precise, we define the follow...

  ■ Can India Become A Technology Leader?   ✅India is presently not a major player in the field of technology due to certain challenges and on the other side, there are many celebrated Indian technologists around the world as many of the technology giants choose an India- born techie as their leader. ✅The conversation around Indian executives at the helm of top tech companies has gathered some momentum with Parag Agrawal taking over as Twitter CEO. The major technology companies like Google and its parent company Alphabet, Microsoft and Twitter, Adobe and IBM are all headed by Indians. ● The Case of the U.S: ✅The Indian immigrants in the U.S are the part of the most educated and professionally accomplished communities in that country. ✅As of 2019, there were 2.7 million Indian immigrants in the U.S. ✅The government of the U.S has been instrumental in the triumphs of enterprise and the free market. ✅The governmental agencies have been actively supporting the research and develo...

  GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT 1919 #Historicalbackground ◇ It relaxed the central control over the provinces by demarcating and separating the central and provincial subjects.  ◇ The central and provincial legislatures were authorised to make laws on their respective list of subjects. However, the structure of government continued to be centralised and unitary. ◇  It further divided the provincial subjects into two parts– transferred and reserved.  ◇ The transferred subjects were to be administered by the Governor with the aid of Ministers responsible to the legislative council. The reserved subjects, were to be administered by the Governor and his executive council without being responsible to the legislative council. This dual scheme of governance was known as ‘dyarchy'.

  COMMUNAL AWARD #Historicalbackground ◇ In August 1932, Ramsay MacDonald, the British Prime Minister, announced a scheme of representation of the minorities, which came to be known as the Communal Award.  ◇ The award not only continued separate electorates for the Muslims, Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians and Europeans but also extended it to the depressed classes (Scheduled Castes).  ◇ Gandhiji was distressed over this extension of the principle of communal representation to the depressed classes and undertook fast unto death in Yerwada jail (Poona) to get the award modified. At last, there was an agreement between the leaders of the Congress and the depressed classes.  ◇ The agreement, known as Poona Pact, retained the Hindu joint electorate and gave reserved seats to the depressed classes.

 ■  Thar desert expanding fast with land degradation -  ✅Recently, the Central University of Rajasthan conducted a study on desertification of the Thar region. ✅The study was undertaken as part of an assessment of the environmentally sensitive areas within the framework of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). ✅The scientists associated with the project studied the climate and vegetation in Thar to understand the desertification process. ● Key Findings: ✅Focused Areas: It focused on Barmer, Jaisalmer, Bikaner and Jodhpur districts covering more than 50% of the Thar desert. ✅It found that Jodhpur had witnessed a slow speed of desertification. ✅It also found that the vegetation cover and water bodies had increased in the area in the last 46 years and the complex sand region had decreased by 4.98%. ✅Expansion of Thar desert:  Along with the gradual destruction of the Aravalli ranges, the Thar desert is expanding fast because of the migration of people, ch...

 ✅Electronic governance or e-governance can be defined as the usage  of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by the  government to provide and facilitate government services, exchange  of information, communication transactions and integration of  various stand-alone systems and services.   🔸 It is the use of technology to perform government activities and  achieve the objectives of governance.  🔹World Bank explained the E-governance as the use by government  agencies of information technologies (such as Wide Area Networks,   the Internet, and mobile computing) that can transform relations  with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government.   🔸 In a fast-growing and demanding economy like India, e-governance  has become essential. The rapid growth of digitalization has led  many governments across the globe to introduce and incorporate  technology into governmental processes.