What is Grinika Programme?

UPSC Mains General Studies Paper II Topic: India and its neighbourhood- relations. What is Girinka Programme and Where it is being run? Grinika is a national social protection scheme of Rwanda to provide one cow per family The programme was initiated by President Paul Kagame in response to alarmingly high rate of childhood malnutrition and as way to accelerate poverty reduction and integrate livestock and crop farming. Under this programme, poorest residing in regionRead More

Iran Becomes India’s Second biggest Oil Supplier, Replaces Saudi Arabia

Iran becomes India’s second biggest Oil Supplier: Between April 2018 and June 2018, Iran was the second-biggest crude oil supplier to Indian state refiners It replaced Saudi Arabia as the second-biggest oil supplier to Indian state refiners. How did Iran become becomes india’s second biggest Oil Supplier in this period? Thanks to the steeper discounts offered by Iran on the oil, India almost doubled its imports from Iran between April 2018 andRead More