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April 1st current affairs – vignan ias India-Mauritius Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement. Context: India and Mauritius signed the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA) on 22 February 2021. The CECPA is the first trade Agreement signed by India with a country in Africa. Both sides have completed their internal legal procedures and the India-Mauritius CECPA will […]
Daily Current affairs 27th March – Vignan IAS
Parliament passed the Major Port Authorities Bill, 2020. Now the Bill will go to the President of India for his assent The salient features of the Major Port Authorities Bill 2020 are as under: The Bill is more compact in comparison to the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 as the number of sections has been […]
On Republic Day, the Prison Department of Maharashtra launched its jail tourism initiative starting with more than 150-year-old Yerawada Central Prison in Pune Constructed in 1866, Yerawada Central Prison is the largest jail in Maharashtra and one of the largest maximum security prisons in the country. In Maharashtra, there are 16 functioning prisons that were […]
The Indian Army has signed a $20-million contract with ideaForge, a player in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, to procure undisclosed quantities of a high-altitude variant of SWITCH UAV SWITCH UAV is an indigenous system built to cater to the most demanding surveillance operations of the Indian forces. This fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing UAV […]
Celebrated Indian-American author Ved Mehta, who overcame blindness and became widely known as the 20th century writer most responsible for introducing American readers to India, died in the U.S. , with complications from Parkinson’s disease Ved Parkash Mehta (1934 –2021) was an Indian-born writer who lived and worked mainly in the United States. He lost […]