NavIC: India’s homegrown navigation system

10POINTER- The Indian government is pushing smartphone makers to enable support for its NavIC navigation systemin new devices to be sold in India from next year.

JALDOOT App

10POINTER- In order to capture the water level of selected wells in a village, the government recently launched the JALDOOT App.

4 Years of Ayushman Bharat-PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaYojana (AB PM-JAY)

10POINTER-Ayushman Bharat-PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaYojana (AB PM-JAY) completes four years.

International Day of Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

10POINTER- Every year International Day of Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons is celebrated on September 26.

FSSAI’s draft notification out on rating for packaged food

10POINTER- The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has issued a draft notification on front-of-package labeling.

Draft Telecom Bill

10POINTER- In a bid to do away with British-era laws governing the telecom sector, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued the draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022.

India’s First Swachh Sujal Pradesh

10POINTER- Andaman and Nicobar islands were awarded as India’s First Swachh Sujal Pradesh. This union territory of India ticked off all the key points of being Swachh and Sujal.

SOVA Virus

10POINTER- The new mobile banking 'Trojan' virus -- SOVA -- which can stealthily encrypt an Android phone for ransom and is hard to uninstall is targeting Indian customers.

UIDAI introduces Fingerprint ‘Liveliness’ to curb fraud

10POINTER- The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) recently introduced a new security feature to the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS).

IFAD’s work in India

10POINTER- Reehana Raza, Regional Director, Asia and the Pacific Division, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), recently gave her statement on IFAD’s work in India.

Varanasi nominated as the first SCO Tourism and Cultural Capital

The city of Varanasi has been nominated as the first-ever SCO Tourism and Cultural Capital during the period 2022-2023 at the 22nd Meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of State in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

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