Daily Current Affairs  – 6 February 2021

In News: Recently, the Bureau of Indian Standards’ (BIS) Animal Husbandry, Feeds and Equipment Subcommittee has replaced a test on guinea pigs used for detecting and identifying pathogenic organisms. Old Test: It involved injecting guinea pigs with a feed sample. If the bacterium Bacillus anthracis or its spores, that cause anthrax, were present, the animals […]

In News –Rejected claims of farmers crop insurance multiplied 10 times in two years under the Centre’s flagship Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). Insurance companies can reject some of the claims on various grounds like the late intimation of claims, denial of claims to non-insured farmers or non-insured crops, non-occurrence of the risk etc. […]

In News –Rejected claims of farmers crop insurance multiplied 10 times in two years under the Centre’s flagship Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). Insurance companies can reject some of the claims on various grounds like the late intimation of claims, denial of claims to non-insured farmers or non-insured crops, non-occurrence of the risk etc. […]

In News-Recently, The Government has received several grievances/complaints regarding the content of programmes on OTT platforms. The latest issue was over an Amazon Prime series Tandav. Following the controversy that some scenes of the series referring to Hindu gods were derogatory. It has been claimed that content on OTT platforms such as Netflix and Amazon […]