- Today is International Women’s Day
- Urban women workers
- Are about 2.5 crores in
- Women and Child Development department
- Was initially set up in 1985 as part of the ministry of HRD.
- Later in January 2006, it was upgraded to a full fledged ministry.
- First woman cosmonaut
- Valentina Tereshkova. In June 1963 she spent about 71 hours in space on board a Soviet Vostok spacecraft.
- She turned 70 recently.
- Corporate donations
- Corporate
- FM serious on weeding out most of the exemptions
- The government estimated that about Rs. 2,35,191 crores was the loss to exchequer in 2006-07 from various exemptions.
- Trans-Asia rail link
- It is a project to create an integrated freight network across Europe and
- Microcredit
- The total outstanding amount of all SHG and MFI programmes is only around Rs. 4,000 crores. But there is a huge unmet demand. It is estimated that about Rs. 48,000 crores is needed to cater to the credit demand of 6 crore (60 mn) poor families.
- South-South cooperation under UNIDO aegis
- A South-South Industrial Cooperation Centre is established in
- It is envisaged to harness the existing resources and forge new linkages specifically for the development of industry in the South.
- It will
- promote dovetailing between institutions and enterprises
- help countries in building trade capacities and market linkages
- help commercialize research findings
- The expenses of the centre will be funded by contributions from Indian government. Additional funds will be raised from governmental and non-governmental donors.
- Why is ban on cement exports to control inflation, a bad step?
- It will hit companies in the Kutch-Saurashtra region that specifically cater to the Gulf region; and this is distributionally unjust.
- The ban will give
- Inflation cannot be checked simply by bans and price controls, since it is substantially a monetary phenomenon.
- More on BSE demutualization
- Singapore Exchange (SGX) has picked up a 5% equity stake in the BSE as part of the latter’s demutualization process.
- Is customs duty leviable only on imports?
- NO. It is also leviable on exports.
- IAF’s platinum jubilee year
- That is, it is 70 years old now.
- The Jubilee year (every 50th year) and the Sabbatical year (every seventh year) are Biblical commandments concerning ethical ownership of land. The laws concerning the Sabbatical year are still observed by many religious Jews in the State of Israel.
- A Golden Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary.
- A Diamond Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 60th anniversary.
- A Silver Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 25th anniversary.
- Rare bird rediscovered
- The large-billed Reed-Warbler that was last seen in 1867 has been spotted again in
- India-Bhutan Friendship Treaty
- The Treaty of August, 1949 has been updated.
- Provision for extradition is included in this new treaty.
- AMPK
- Adenosine Monophosphate-activated Kinase is an enzyme that monitors the energy status of the body. It fight obesity in human body.
- Cricket
- Women’s World Cup is going to be held in 2009 in
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Nobel laureate (1982) is famous for his book “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
- He recently turned 80 and the Colombians celebrated this.
- His other noted works include:
- “Love in the Time of Cholera”
- “The General in His Labyrinth”
08.03.2007
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