Context: Considering the increase in the cultivation of millets, the Centre may soon announce a benchmark price for minor millets produced in various… Continue Reading
Context: After China, India will become the second country in the world to start the ‘trade-plus-one’ (T+1) settlement cycle in top listed secur… Continue Reading
Context: The Monument Mitra scheme, which entails adopting a heritage site and maintaining it, will soon be revamped to enable private firms, to part… Continue Reading
Context: This is the first time that an Egyptian President (Abdel Fattah El-Sisi) has been invited as chief guest for the Republic Day celebrations i… Continue Reading
Context: A five-judge SC bench decided to modify the existing rules for “living wills” as established in its 2018 decision allowing passive eutha… Continue Reading
Context: A CJI -led bench has decided to examine a petition challenging mandatory minimum sentencing in the case of gang rape of a minor below the ag… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a study published in the Global Environmental Change journal, which states that India’s financial sector is highly exposed to th… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, an IIT Madras-incubated company has developed the BharOS. Relevance: GS3 About: - It is an indigenous mobile operating system … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a new study has found that non-natural light had increased the brightness of Skyglow, by 9.2-10% every year between 2011 and 2022 … Continue Reading
Context: India had set a target to eliminate Measles and Rubella (MR) by 2023, having missed the earlier deadline of 2020, due to a variety of reason… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, in a significant development the Indian Army cleared the 108 women officers eligible to command units and troops in their respecti… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, while rejecting a closure report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), a Delhi court stated that there is no statuto… Continue Reading
Context: On September 20, 2021, the Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers, on behalf of gig workers, filed a public interest litigation in… Continue Reading
Context: India sent written financing assurances to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), becoming the first bilateral creditor of the island nation… Continue Reading
Context: China is constructing a new dam on the Mabja Zangbo river in Tibet, close to the tri-junction of India, Nepal and Tibet, raising concerns si… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, OpenAI (AI research and deployment company) opened its most recent and powerful AI chatbot, ChatGPT, to users to test its capabili… Continue Reading
Context: The 53rd edition of the annual World Economic Forum summit was held in Davos, Switzerland. Theme: Cooperation in a Fragmented World. Relev… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the 8th India-Oman strategic dialogue was held in India, where both countries have underlined the need to work collectively to fig… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the 17th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2022 was released by NGO Pratham, which highlights the impact of the pandemic on… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Etalin hydroelectric project in Arunachal Pradesh has been scrapped in its present form. The plan combined two run-of-the-rive… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Eco-sensitive Zones have been met with resistance from protests claiming that compliance with the Environmental Protection Act 198… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has chosen Hyderabad, Telangana for establishing its Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has proposed a new Remote Electronic Voting Machine (RVM), which will allow domestic migran… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) has notified India’s first national assessment regulator, PARAK… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, on the occasion of National Startup Day (16th January), Startup India Innovation week culminated along with National Start up Awar… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a strand of antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea outbreak has hit Kenya. Researchers have raised alarm, warning this infection is asy… Continue Reading
Context: Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Venus mission, Shukrayaan I may be postponed to 2031. ISRO’s Venus mission was expected to b… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first new exoplanet nam… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Sweden’s state-owned mining company LKAB has discovered Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals. Relevance: GS1 About… Continue Reading
Context: According to the Oxfam’s Report “Survival of the Richest: The India story”, the richest 1% in India now own more than 40% of the count… Continue Reading
Context: Under the National Clean Air Campaign (NCAP), analysts found that progress has been slow, and pollution has only incrementally reduced in mo… Continue Reading
Context: The United Nations Institute for Water, Environment and Health showed in its report that about 50,000 large dams across the world will lose … Continue Reading
Context: According to the United Nations (UN) World Social Report 2023: Leaving no one behind in an ageing world, the number of persons aged 65 years… Continue Reading
Context: Recent studies have indicated that tectonically driven changes in the ocean gateways had a dramatic impact on the global overturning circula… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has released the 18th Edition of Global Risks Report 2023 which seeks that the world be prepared fo… Continue Reading
Context: A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court (SC) is hearing a dispute between the Delhi government and the Centre over the control … Continue Reading
Context: Weeding out the invasive tropical American shrub, Lantana camara, appears to alter the composition of bird species in a forest, according to… Continue Reading
Context: The CBI has registered an FIR against former finance secretary Arvind Mayaram for alleged cheating, criminal conspiracy, and corruption. Pr… Continue Reading
Context: Archeological Survey of India (ASI) has discovered two 1200-year-old miniature votive stupas during landscaping activities near Sarai Tila m… Continue Reading
Context: A survey conducted as part of the Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) 2023 shows the populations of some migratory waterbirds, especially duck spec… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court unanimously and rightly ruled out any additional curbs on free speech by ministers. Rele… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Vice-President of India has rekindled the debate over the doctrine of separation of powers by citing the Supreme Court's landmark … Continue Reading
Context: Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) | Harvard & Smithsonian have generated a 3D magnetic map of the cavity called Local Bubbl… Continue Reading
Context: Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for three capital acquisition proposals amounting to ₹4,276 cror… Continue Reading
Context: A report was recently released by United Nations Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) that stated that world will lose 26… Continue Reading
Context: For the first time in India, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has specified the identity standards for Basmati Rice … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Prime Minister of India flagged off the world’s longest river cruise, MV Ganga Vilas in Varanasi. During the event, the Pri… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry of India and the US Trade Representative Ambassador co-chaired the 13th Ministerial-le… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Human Rights Watch in its World Report 2023 (33rd edition) said that Indian authorities had “intensified and broadened” th… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a team of butterfly observers and researchers have found the White Tufted Royal Butterfly, a rare butterfly species in Kannur, Ker… Continue Reading
Context: As per the Asian Waterbird Census 2023 (recommended dates for the AWC are 7 – 22 January) which has been started recently, the Godavari es… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, India carried out a successful test launch of tactical ballistic missile Prithvi-II from a test range off the Odisha coast. Relev… Continue Reading
Context: Delhi and other parts of northwest India have been reeling under a Cold Wave since the beginning of 2023. The lowest minimum temperature re… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, two global reports on child mortality (Levels and Trends in Child Mortality) and stillbirths (Never Forgotten) were released by Un… Continue Reading
Context: In the Supreme Court judgement on the Central Government’s decision of demonetisation, the majority ruling upheld the validity of the dele… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) constituted a high-powered committee for the Union Territory of Ladakh to “ensure protection … Continue Reading
Context: A recent excavation at Juna Khatiya village of Kutch district Gujarat has revealed some new findings on burial practice of Harrapan and earl… Continue Reading
Context: Recently Himalayan Griffon vulture was rescued from the Eidgah cemetery in Kanpur. Relevance: GS3 About: -Scientific Name: Gyps himalaye… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Andhra Pradesh has approached before the Supreme Court seeking “Just, Reasonable and Equitable Apportionment” of assets and li… Continue Reading
Context: The Kerala High Court has said that personal choice to build a family is a fundamental right and fixing an upper age limit for the same was … Continue Reading
Context: Since the Tamil Nadu government shunned the usage of the term ‘Central government’ in its official communications by replacing it with �… Continue Reading
Context: The exact reason behind Joshimath land subsidence is still unknown but experts cite unplanned construction, over-population, obstruction of … Continue Reading
Context: The EU is replacing piped Russian gas imports with rapidly increasing imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), much of which is fracking in t… Continue Reading
Context: The SC refused to entertain a PIL challenging the decisions of the Uttarakhand and Gujarat governments to constitute committees for implemen… Continue Reading
Context: Kala-azar cases in India declined by 98.7% between 2007 and 2022, from 44,533 to 834 and 632 endemic blocks (99.8%) spread across Bihar, Utt… Continue Reading
Context: According to a new study by the United Nations, around 3,700 dams in India will lose 26% of their total storage by 2050 due to accumulation … Continue Reading
Context: In November 2022, over four years after the gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, the Supreme Court held that one of the… Continue Reading
Context: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has announced draft norms for facilitating foreign universities and educational institutions to set u… Continue Reading
Context: Recently Union Home Minister Inaugurated, 122-foot-tall statue of a polo player astride a Manipur Pony in Imphal. It is believed that Sago… Continue Reading
Context: It is clear that climate change increases the upper limit on hurricane strength and rain rate and that it also raises the average sea level … Continue Reading
Context: In order to tackle the problem of water contamination and enhance access to clean and drinkable water, the Indian Institute of Science Educa… Continue Reading
Context: The government is considering lifting a ban on wheat exports and is looking at the current supply of wheat in the central pool and the distr… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, over a dozen “restrictive and discriminatory” conditions which prevented local suppliers from participating in the bidding pro… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Aspirational Blocks Programme (ABP) has been launched during the 2nd National Conference of Chief Secretaries held from 5th Januar… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the government has extended the date for states and Union territories to finalise their administrative boundaries by June 2023, wh… Continue Reading
Context: Due to land subsidence, Joshimath - a key transit point for tourists travelling to Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib - developed cracks, causing p… Continue Reading
Context: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently released the Annual Report of the Ombudsman Schemes. Relevance: GS3 About: ->Key highlights of … Continue Reading
Context: -A report titled ‘Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World’ has been recently released by the International Labour Organisati… Continue Reading
Context: A Bench led by the Chief Justice of India (D.Y. Chandrachud) agreed that urgent steps need to be taken to enforce Section 136A of the Motor … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a report titled “Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters”, which states half the Eart… Continue Reading
Context: India is on a drive to induct Unmanned Combat Systems (UCS) into the military. In August, 2022 it inducted “Swarm Drones” into its mecha… Continue Reading
Context: The Kerala High Court has reiterated that government employees who participate in general strikes, affecting the normal life of the public a… Continue Reading
Context: A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court reserved for judgment a batch of petitions seeking to strike down a Tamil Nadu law which protects … Continue Reading
Context: Ahead of Odisha State Pollution Control Board’s (OSPCB) hearing on Environment Clearance of Mali Parwat Bauxite Mining Lease, local people… Continue Reading
Context: Under the Honey Mission, 1 lakh and 75 thousand bee boxes have been distributed so far by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC)… Continue Reading
Context: The Union Government has approved a Rs 19,744 crore National Green Hydrogen mission that aims to make India a ‘global hub’ for using, pr… Continue Reading
Context: The Ministry of Science and Technology has notified a National Geospatial Policy (NGP) 2022, with the goal of making India a world leader in… Continue Reading
Context: Recently NITI Aayog published a discussion paper titled “Digital Banks: A Proposal for Licensing & Regulatory Regime for India”, which e… Continue Reading
Context: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel… Continue Reading
Context: Union Cabinet has approved the National Green Hydrogen Mission, which is aimed at making India the global hub for the production of green hy… Continue Reading
Context: The research article, Impact of Monoculture Rubber Plantation on non-Human Primates and Plant Diversity in South Tripura, has warned against… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the 108th session of the India Science Congress (ISC) was inaugurated by the Prime Minister. The event’s theme is ‘Science and… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, corporate tax collections exceeded 3% of the GDP after a gap of two years in 2021-22. It is reflecting overall improvement in prof… Continue Reading
Context: The Jain community has been protesting over demands related to two holy sites — Sammed Shikhar on Parasnath hill in Jharkhand and Shatrunj… Continue Reading
Context: Several countries in Europe recorded their hottest January weather ever in 2023 with temperatures 10 to 20 degrees Celsius above average. Th… Continue Reading
Context: Recently telescopes operated by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) observed a tidal disruption event named AT2021ehb. -Th… Continue Reading
Context: The SC held there is no reason to impose “additional restrictions” on the right to free speech {under Article 19(2) of the Indian Consti… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Wall of Peace, a great work of modern mural art on the 700-feet long compound wall of Government Vocational Higher Secondary S… Continue Reading
Context: In a recent Constitution Bench judgment, the Supreme Court held that a country with a multi-party system cannot afford to crack the whip eve… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the National Medical Commission (NMC) issued the proposed draft regulations related to the National Exit Test (NExT). Relevance: … Continue Reading
Context: As per the Minister of Road Transport and Highways the Indian road accident scenario, with 415 deaths and many injured every day, is more se… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Supreme Court has passed a verdict on the Demonetisation of currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 in a majority 4-1 by a five-… Continue Reading
Context: A recent study has found that Black carbon aerosols have indirectly affected the mass gain of the Tibetan Plateau glaciers by changing long-… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) Chairperson said that the ST body’s position on the Forest (Conservation) Ru… Continue Reading
Context: The Investor Education and Protection Fund (IEPF) will launch an outreach programme to create awareness of Cryptocurrencies and Online Gamin… Continue Reading
Context: The year 2022 was not the best for tech firms, yet we may innovative technologies emerge in future related to Metaverse and AI (Artificial I… Continue Reading
Context: The Assam state Cabinet recently approved the merger of four districts with their constituent districts. On 27th December, the EC announced … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a draft research paper claimed Google researchers have achieved a long sought- after goal in physics called “quantum supremacy�… Continue Reading
Context: In Sundarbans, a new shrimp farming initiative offers hope for mangrove restoration. Relevance: GS1;GS3 About: ->SAIME Initiative: -Und… Continue Reading
Context: India has shared the vision to make International Year of Millets 2023 a ‘People’s Movement’ alongside positioning India as the ‘Glo… Continue Reading
Context: The Indian Rupee depreciated by around 10% against the US dollar and the rupee was the worst-performing Asian currency in 2022. Relevance: … Continue Reading
Context: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has asked all States to ensure strict implementation of the sexual harassment at workplace law. Rel… Continue Reading
Context: Government will launch the Digital India Innovation Fund to support deep tech startups. Relevance: GS3 About: Deep tech or deep technolo… Continue Reading
Context: The India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (IndAus ECTA) has recently come into effect. The ECTA was signed on April 2, 20… Continue Reading
Context: The Govt of India recently approved Karnataka’s Kalasa-Banduri drinking water project which is facing opposition from Goa and Maharashtra.… Continue Reading
Context: Recently Indian Metrological Department (IMD) has forecasted severe cold wave conditions in some parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi… Continue Reading
Context: According to figures presented in Parliament in December 2022, over the last five years, the number of registered startups in India have gro… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Karnataka has categorized the two dominant communities, Vokkaligas and Lingayats, as “moderately backward” from the “backwar… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution issued a notification to provide free foodgrains (rice, wheat… Continue Reading
Context: An audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India was conducted for 2020-21, which included Central Public Sector Enterprises o… Continue Reading
Context: Environmental Experts suggested that India must adopt blue-carbon solutions if it intends to emerge as a global climate leader. India’s co… Continue Reading
Context: The recent tragedies in Seoul, South Korea, and Morbi in Gujarat have once again put crowds and their management under the spotlight. Nation… Continue Reading
Context: Armenia and India celebrated 30 years of bilateral diplomatic relations in 2022. Relevance: GS2 About: -->Historical Ties been: -Armeni… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS) has released a report card of Responsiveness under RTI (Right to Information) Act 2021-22, which sho… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Prime Minister of India spoke to the Ukrainian President to discuss India’s ongoing G-20 Presidency, and Ukraine’s “10-p… Continue Reading
Context: The border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka is intensifying, with both states passing a unanimous resolution to support a legal bat… Continue Reading
Context: Neem trees has been identified as twig blight and dieback disease in Telangana. Relevance: GS1 About: ->Neem: -Neem is a member of the … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) has signed a non-binding MOU with Tecnimont (Italy) to explore production of green m… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the President of India laid the foundation stone for the project ‘Development of Pilgrimage Facilities at Bhadrachalam Group of … Continue Reading
Context: Parliamentary committees have concluded that drafting a National Tourism Policy will not lead to the development of the tourism industry in … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has recommended a ban on the sale of single sticks of cigarettes… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the year-end-review of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) under the Ministry of Science & Technology was released. Rele… Continue Reading
Context: Chanda Kochhar (Ex-ICICI Bank CEO) serves as a cautionary tale of the dangers of greed in the corporate world. The Central Bureau of Investi… Continue Reading
Context: India is entering 2023 with challenges and opportunities staring at it on the diplomatic and military fronts with the Russia-Ukraine war and… Continue Reading
Context: Experts and conservationists have raised concerns that the proposed mega oil refinery in Barsu village, Maharashtra, may damage nearby prehi… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Ministry of Defense has procured indigenous Short-Range Ballistic Surface-to-Surface (SRBM) Missile Pralay, giving Indian mili… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the year-end-review of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) under the Ministry of Science & Technology was relea… Continue Reading
Context: Hunger has remained grisly in several parts of the world including India in 2022, so much so that the United Nations World Food Programme (W… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the year-end-review of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) … Continue Reading
Context: -Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” was sworn in as Nepal’s new Prime Minister. It is believed that Deuba’s predecessor - KP Sharma Oli … Continue Reading
Context: The Indian economy is projected to record relatively healthy Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 6.9% in 2022-23 and inflation has starte… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the President of India amended the regulations governing eSports and requested that the Sports Ministry and the Ministry of Electr… Continue Reading
Context: Recently a new study led by the University of Hawaii claimed that Earth is witnessing its sixth mass extinction event. Relevance: GS3 Ab… Continue Reading
Context: Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal introduced a host of new initiatives, including a right to repair portal and an NTH mobile a… Continue Reading
Context: The Parliamentary panel on Social Justice and Empowerment has asked the government to expedite categorisation of Denotified, Nomadic and Sem… Continue Reading
Context: Government has received the report of the Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics (AVGC) Promotion Task Force. Relevance: GS2;GS3 Ab… Continue Reading
Context: In many of the world's top economies, including the United States, the biggest and most consequential, there are fears of recession as the n… Continue Reading
Context: Farmers in Madhya Pradesh who follow regenerative farming methods find that they reduce the need for frequent irrigation, which conserves wa… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General of India) has released a report, which has flagged time and cost overrun of the Mission M… Continue Reading
Context: While working on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, scientists have successfully trialed a new method for freezing and storing coral in their… Continue Reading
Context: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that a ban imposed by certain coastal States on purse seine fishing, which is known to disadvantage en… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, an increase in the cases of “Dark Patterns” or “Deceptive Patterns” have been noted where internet-based companies have be… Continue Reading
Context: A recent hooch tragedy in Bihar claimed many lives and left several others critically ill and blind. Relevance: GS2;GS4 About: -In India… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Genetically Modified (GM) mustard Dhara Mustard Hybrid (DMH-11) was tested in the field and shown to be more productive. Produ… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Russia and China have begun a joint naval exercise in the East China Sea. Relevance: GS2 About: Key Points of the Exercises: … Continue Reading
Context: Bharat Biotech’s intranasal vaccine, BBV154 or Incovacc is the world’s first intranasal vaccine to be approved as a booster dose for Cov… Continue Reading
Context: Sand batteries can store a significant extent of thermal energy and can aid Clean Energy Solutions. Finland has installed the world’s firs… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Social Progress Index (SPI) for States and Districts of India was released by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minis… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the year-end-review of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj for the year 2022 was released. Relevance: GS2 About: -->Key Achievement… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Japan has adopted a new policy promoting greater use of Nuclear Energy to ensure a stable power supply amid global fuel shortages … Continue Reading
Context: As many as 13 farmers known for innovative farming were felicitated to mark Kisan Diwas or National Farmers Day on 23rd December, 2022. The … Continue Reading
Context: Outer Space Institute (OSI) has called for both national and multilateral efforts to restrict uncontrolled re-entries of Satellites. OSI is … Continue Reading
Context: While cotton farmers in several states have called for an increase in the crop’s MSP, the Centre has stated that it is monitoring the cott… Continue Reading
Context: India, during its Presidency of G20, is emphasising on international collaboration for energy security and enhanced development of emerging … Continue Reading
Context: According to the Union Minister of State (independent charge) for S&T and Earth Sciences, around 60% of the landmass of India (covering all … Continue Reading
Context: India is expected to roll out the indigenously developed CERVAVAC vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer among girls aged 9-14 years … Continue Reading
Context: Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX), the flagship initiative of Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence, has reached a m… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has notified “J&K Land Grant Rules 2022” which has ended the owners right to hold on to p… Continue Reading
Context: It is estimated that around April 2023, India’s 1.43 billion people will exceed China’s population. In 2022, China will for the first t… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, responding to the demands by the Opposition, the Lok Sabha has referred the Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Bill 20… Continue Reading
Context: National Mathematics Day (NMD) has been celebrated every year on 22nd December to mark the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan. On the … Continue Reading
Context: The current surge in Covid-19 infections in China, is believed to be driven by the BF.7 sub-variant of Omicron that is circulating over ther… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, three sites- Gujarat’s Vadnagar town and the iconic Sun Temple at Modhera, and the Rock-cut Sculptures of Unakoti in Tripura hav… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, PM Modi attended the Golden Jubilee celebrations (50 years) of the North-Eastern Council (NEC) in Shillong Relevance: GS2 About… Continue Reading
Context: Cinema as a medium has incredible power in our country. The reach and impact of a movie are far wider than in any other place. Thus, it acts… Continue Reading
Context: Recently 10 Giant Asian Tortoise were soft released into protected area of Intanki National Park in Nagaland for conservation. Relevance: … Continue Reading
Context: Lalbazar is becoming a hub for the famous dokra metalcraft. Two places are famous in West Bengal for dokra work — Bikna in Bankura and Da… Continue Reading
Context: A Lok Sabha member from Shivamogga district in Karnataka, urged the Centre to levy a hefty import duty on arecanut to check falling prices i… Continue Reading
Context: Govt. rolled out AYURSWASHTHYA Yojana Relevance: Prelims-Governance About: ->AYURSWASTHYA Yojana: -Under Ministry of Ayush -Central Se… Continue Reading
Context: Recently the fifth Scorpène-class conventional submarine, Vagir, was delivered to the Navy. Relevance: Prelims-Sci&Tech About: -INS… Continue Reading
Context: Under the SAMARTH Scheme of Textile Ministry, more than 13,235 artisans have been trained in the last three years. Relevance: GS3 About: … Continue Reading
Context: The abrogation of special status under articles 35A and 370 for Jammu and Kashmir was followed by various initiatives to initiate land refor… Continue Reading
Context: According to the Ministry of Earth Science, the Samudrayaan Mission is expected to be realised by year 2026. Relevance: GS2;GS3 About: … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released a report titled- “State of the Economy”, which warns of a darkening global outloo… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying announced that employment will be given to more than 50 lakh farmers. Under R… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the government of India has taken various initiatives related to Agriculture by using Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Inte… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Rajya Sabha passed the Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill which the government said would provide an effective legal instrument to combat M… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, government has approved the inclusion of certain communities in the lists of Scheduled Tribes in Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Karnata… Continue Reading
Context: An article, ‘Situating Democracy in Ambedkar’s Moral Discourse’ looks at how Ambedkar situates morality in his discourse of democracy.… Continue Reading
Context: ‘Arnala’ for Indian Navy was launched at M/s L&T, Kattupalli, Chennai. Relevance: Prelims-Sci&Tech About: -It is the first of 08 x… Continue Reading
Context: Russia has for the second month in a row remained India's top oil supplier in November 2022 surpassing traditional sellers Iraq and Saudi Ar… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the year-end-review of the Department of Consumer Affairs under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution for… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, EU members have agreed to implement a minimum tax rate of 15% on big businesses in accordance with Pillar 2 of the global tax agre… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Fra… Continue Reading
Context: The Tal Chhapar blackbuck sanctuary in Rajasthan has received a protective cover against a proposed move of the State government to reduce t… Continue Reading
Context: Residents from around 40 villages of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan have walked 225 kilometres to protect community-conserved sacred spaces known as … Continue Reading
Context: Will biodiversity see a ‘Paris moment,’ remains a question, as the COP15 to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the results of a trial of messenger Ribonucleic Acid (mRNA-4157/V940) vaccine made by Moderna and MSD (Merck & Co.) when taken alo… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Union Government has reported that there has been an 80% decline in civilian deaths and 6,000 militants have surrendered in No… Continue Reading
Context: The Parliament has passed the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022 in order to establish Carbon Markets in India and specify a Carbon … Continue Reading
Context: The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s cyberspace watchdog, is rolling out new regulations to restrict the use of deep synt… Continue Reading
Context: Anti-cancer CAR-T therapy reengineers T cells to kill tumors — and researchers are expanding the limited types of cancer it can target. R… Continue Reading
Context: IEA’s Coal 2022: Analysis and forecast to 2025 report says coal is set to continue to be the growth engine of global coal demand. Global c… Continue Reading
Context: Defense Minister Rajnath Singh today commissioned INS Mormugao into the Indian Navy. Relevance: Prelims-Governance About: -It is a P15B … Continue Reading
Context: Delays in paddy planting and stubble burning in certain districts of Punjab and Haryana act like a cascade. They have caused excessive poll… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Minister of Law and Justice has informed Lok Sabha that “Designing Innovative Solutions for Holistic Access to Justice” (D… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal have carried out Whole Genome Sequencing of b… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a girl was attacked with an acid-like substance in Delhi by three assailants. The incident has brought back to focus the heinous c… Continue Reading
Context: Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) will charge a “small fee" from platforms that will contribute towards “maintenance and developm… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a Supreme Court (SC) judge recused herself from hearing a writ petition filed by Bilkis Bano against a Gujarat government decision… Continue Reading
Context: Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Ko Kaam Karyakram (PMKKK) has been named as Pradhan Mantri Virasat Ka Samvardhan (PM VIKAS) Scheme by the Ministry of… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the World Bank released a report titled 'Striving for Clean Air: Air Pollution and Public Health in South Asia'. The report detai… Continue Reading
Context: Recently Watershed Organization Trust organized a webinar themed “Promoting FPOs for resilient incomes and sustainable farming practices i… Continue Reading
Context: Under RGSA scheme, funds to the tune of Rs. 1,538.32 crore has been released to States/ UTs during the last three years. It includes constr… Continue Reading
Context: A parliamentary panel has recommended that the ministry of external affairs (MEA) prepare a policy document on India’s soft power projecti… Continue Reading
Context: Recently a study has been published titled- “Wetland emission and atmospheric sink changes explain methane growth in 2020’, which states… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, scientists in the United Kingdom (UK) have successfully tested a new form of cancer therapy, ‘Base Editing’ for the time in a … Continue Reading
Context: India’s exports declined about 16.7% in October 2022 compared with the same period 2021, raising concerns over slowing exports. For Octob… Continue Reading
Context: This year’s assessment of Arctic conditions – the Arctic Report Card, which the US NOAA has produced since 2006, has highlighted rapid e… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the District Tourism Promotion Council, Kozhikode has applied for a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for the famous Beypore Uru (b… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) report was released by the World Health Organization (… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJ&E) told Lok Sabha that no person had died from Manual Scavenging in the last … Continue Reading
Context: Recently a few scientists at the Lawrence Livermore facility, the US have achieved a net gain in energy from a nuclear fusion reaction, whic… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Ministry for New and Renewable Energy has reported that the government has so far sanctioned the development of solar projects… Continue Reading
Context: The recent Tawang skirmish has led to rising demands for severing trade ties with China. However, contrary to the demands, India’s imports… Continue Reading
Context: US government scientists have made a breakthrough in the pursuit of limitless, zero-carbon power by achieving a net energy gain in a fusion … Continue Reading
Context: According to the figures revealed by the Minister for New and Renewable Energy- only a fourth of the total sanctioned solar projects with a … Continue Reading
Context: A sample of a space rock called Ryugu that was carried to Earth in 2020 by the Japanese space agency’s asteroid sample-return mission, Hay… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship addressed the India Intern… Continue Reading
Context: The Government of India has recently decided to introduce a Family Pehchan Patra (FPP) for residents of the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashm… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, India and China troops clashed along the Yangste river in Tawang sector in Arunachal Pradesh. This was the first such incident in… Continue Reading
Context: The Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs is now working to develop 36,428 villages with at least 50% tribal population and 500 Scheduled Tribes … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the 17th Asia Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM) of the International Labour Organization (ILO) was held in Singapore. Relevance: G… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Indian President has raised the issue of the plight of a large number of undertrials holed up in the prisons. Relevance: GS2… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) raised concerns over National Policy of Rare Diseases (NPRD) as it did not reach any patie… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the daytime’s temperatures in Delhi were above normal in December 2022 because of fewer Western Disturbances (WD). In winter, … Continue Reading
Context: The government has approved the implementation of the Ken-Betwa Link Project (KBLP), one of the links under the Peninsular Rivers Component,… Continue Reading
Context: Delegates from 196 countries — Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) — are meeting in Montreal, Canada … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a Japanese space startup ispace Inc has launched its own private lander M1 to the Moon under its HAKUTO-R mission, from the SpaceX… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Union Minister for Jal Shakti chaired the 10th meeting of the Empowered Task Force (ETF) of National Mission for Clean Ganga (… Continue Reading
Context: High government subsidies are leading to excessive use of two fertilisers - Urea and Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP). Relevance: GS3 About: … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Apple has announced it will be increasing the number of data points protected by End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) on iCloud from 14 to… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Supreme Court asked the government to respond to a plea filed by the National Commission for Women (NCW) to raise the minimum … Continue Reading
Context: Expanding Public Distributing System coverage to account for the increase in population since 2011 is a no-brainer; the Government’s resis… Continue Reading
Context: Efforts are being made by Governments, civil societies, corporates, businesses and even the common people towards net-zero emissions to null… Continue Reading
Context: Recently Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj convened a consultation meeting on ‘Cactus Plantation and its Economic Usa… Continue Reading
Context: Over the last month, air quality in India’s financial hub, Mumbai, has been noticeably worse than in prior years, giving Mumbaikars a tast… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the hot test of Scramjet Engine, a type of Air Breathing… Continue Reading
Context: According to a research paper, Pharmaceutical Pollution is an overlooked but urgent issue that needs coordinated action from across the phar… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Aam Aadmi Party became the 9th National Party of India after the result of Gujarat elections where it gained almost 13% of the… Continue Reading
Context: As India assumed the G20 Presidency, the External Affairs Minister of India iterated the country’s role as the “voice of the Global Sout… Continue Reading
Context: Recently consultative committee of Ministry of Civil Aviation meets in New Delhi to discuss GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation). Re… Continue Reading
Context: According to International Energy Agency (IEA), renewable energy will comprise 90 per cent of global electricity capacity expansion in the n… Continue Reading
Context: Context: Recently, during a Parliamentary discussion on promotion of sports in India, MPs raised the issue of limited spending on sports, in… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signed an agreement to extend up to a USD 200 million currency swap facility to Maldives Monet… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, chief of a political party of Tripura led a two-day dharna at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, to raise the demand for a “Greater Tipra… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy (Delhi based independent think-tank) in its book “From Rule by law to the Rule of Law” sugge… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a group representing ind… Continue Reading
Context: The Prime Minister Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) Scheme has been extended beyond March, 2022. Relevance: GS2, GS3 Abo… Continue Reading
Context: Neuralink, the Elon Musk company is the target of a federal investigation over its animal trial program, has been trying to develop a brain… Continue Reading
Context: A new report by the World Bank suggests India could soon become one of the first places in the world to experience heatwaves that break the … Continue Reading
Context: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has signed an MoU with Social Alpha, a multistage innovation curation and venture development … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, OpenAI has introduced a new chatbot called ChatGPT, which is a ‘conversational’ AI and will answer queries just like a human w… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed the introduction of Calling Name Presentation (CNAP). Relevance: G… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) unveiled its latest review of the Monetary Policy. RBI sai… Continue Reading
Context: The importance of groundwater protection and techniques for its sustainable use will be highlighted during the United Nations-Water Summit o… Continue Reading
Context: The Delhi Police will move to the ‘Open Standard Digital Trunking Radio System’ (OS-DTRS) and will phase out the current tetra net wirel… Continue Reading
Context: The government has introduced Digi Yatra to make air travel hassle-free. The facility will be available for passengers taking domestic flig… Continue Reading
Context: The Munda people’s association with the mahua tree begins even before they are born. Would-be mothers are fed a simple chutney made of mah… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, it has been reported that a cyclone may impact the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts from 8th December 2022 onwards. Relevance: G… Continue Reading
Context: The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) marked World Soil Day 2022 (5th December) with the launch of its first Global Status on Black So… Continue Reading
Context: The National Security Advisor (NSA) of India, for the first time, hosted a special meeting with his counterparts from Central Asian countrie… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture has formed an Advisory Group for streamlining the development of the Bamboo sector under the restructu… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, a report released by the Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information in collaboration with MapBiomas shows tha… Continue Reading
Context: On November 18, 2022, Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace scripted history by becoming the first private Indian organisation to launch a rocke… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Jama Masjid in Delhi prohibited the entry of single women or women in groups inside the mosque premises and withdrew after the… Continue Reading
Context: According to the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM), fire count from Stubble Burning in Delhi and the NCR (National Capital Region… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Adani Group approached the Kerala High Court requesting the security cover of central forces in its port construction site in Vizh… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the External Affairs Minister of India met with the Foreign Minister of Germany in New Delhi. Germany’s minister’s visit coin… Continue Reading
Context: The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has extended by two years the deadline to comply with its 30 per cent cap on the market sh… Continue Reading
Context: Western countries, G7 and European Union have agreed to cap the price of Russia’s oil exports (to $60 per barrel) in an attempt to limit t… Continue Reading
Context: Five key social sector departments – health, women and child development, rural development and panchayat raj, education, and housing and … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Ministry of Culture, Government of India in collaboration with “Swar Dharohar Foundation,” inaugurated a three day “Swar… Continue Reading
Context: India and France are collaborating on Kaziranga Project. Agence Française de Développement (AFD) of France has committed funding of €80… Continue Reading
Context: According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report “Turning the tide on internal displacement: A development approach to so… Continue Reading
Context: The data presented by the Registrar General of India (RGI) presents a gain in momentum of the pace of decline in India’s maternal and infa… Continue Reading
Context: According to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) new report, The Future of Food and Agriculture — Drivers and triggers for tra… Continue Reading
Context: According to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) new report, The Future of Food and Agriculture — Drivers and triggers for tra… Continue Reading
Context: According to the World Bank’s (WB) Migration and Development Brief, India is expected to receive a record $100 billion in remittances in 2… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the premier medical institute in the country, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi (AIIMS) was crippled by a majo… Continue Reading
Context: According to study conducted by Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), Seven years after the December 2015 emission standard no… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, geologists have suggested to protect the site of Coastal Red Sand Dunes, of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Relevance: GS1 - Phys… Continue Reading
Context: The importance of regenerative agriculture was emphasised in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on “Climate Chang… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Merriam-Webster, America's oldest dictionary publisher, has chosen "Gaslighting" as its Word of the Year. Searches on its website… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Delhi High Court recently passed an interim order to prevent the unlawful use of a Bollywood star’s name, image and voice. … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Nagaland has celebrated its 60th Statehood Day on December 1st 2022. Nagaland statehood day also marks the beginning of Hornbill … Continue Reading
Context: According to the report ‘Climate Investment Opportunities in India's Cooling Sector’ released by the World Bank Group, investment opport… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, many of U.S. multinational companies has announced massive layoffs, which already crossed 60,000 in September and October 2022. A… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Union Government has written a letter to states across the country, directing them to record Settlement Rights in Revenue and … Continue Reading
Context: On 1st December, India assumed the monthly rotating presidency of the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the second time in its two-year tenure … Continue Reading
Context: Recently the Prime Minister of India addressed the Manipur Sangai Festival via video message. Relevance: Prelims - Art & Culture About Sa… Continue Reading
Context: Coming to the rescue of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB), the Supreme Court recently mooted the idea of launching ‘Pro… Continue Reading
Context: On December 1, 2022, India commences its G20 Presidency Relevance: GS2 About: Highlights of the PM’s letter: -The world remains trapp… Continue Reading
Context: European researchers have raised concerns of yet another pandemic after resurrecting a 48,500-year-old ‘Zombie Virus’ from a frozen lake… Continue Reading
Context: The police and forest officials in Manipur's Ukhrul town have been scanning “gambling dens” following reports of wild animals (dead or a… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, WMO (World Meteorological Organization) has released its first annual State of Global Water Resources Report 2021. Relevance: GS… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) released India’s economic growth data for the second quarter of … Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Supreme Court has recently appointed a female all-woman bench for the third time in its history. The first time the Supreme C… Continue Reading
Context: The Reserve Bank announces the launch of the first pilot for retail digital Rupee (e₹-R) also called Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Ministry of Power has announced a Scheme for Procurement of Aggregate Power of 4500 MW on competitive basis for five years on … Continue Reading
Context: With typhoon Hinnamnor and another tropical storm called Gardo, meteorologists observed a phenomenon called the Fujiwhara Effect. Typhoon H… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) of Parties 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), countri… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, NITI Aayog has released a study report, titled ‘Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) Policy Framework and its Deploym… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Fifteenth Finance Commission chairperson N.K. Singh addressed the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)’s 19th Health Summit 20… Continue Reading
Context: Saharsa became the first district in Bihar to be declared paperless (e-office) with an aim to end the Great Indian Red Tape. Relevance: GS… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, many Kuki-Chin refugees from Chittagong Hill Tract Area in Bangladesh entered Mizoram (India) fearing an attack from Bangladesh se… Continue Reading
Context: In the opening match of the FIFA World Cup 2022, the first goal of the tournament was ruled out for offside. FIFA’s brand new Semi-Automa… Continue Reading
Context: In a first-of-its-kind work, using data from SARAS 3, researchers from the Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bengaluru, the Commonwealth Scien… Continue Reading
Context: Recently Ikshak, the third of the four Survey Vessels (Large) (SVL) Project for Indian Navy was launched. Relevance: Prelims - Defence Tec… Continue Reading
Context: Experts express concern regarding the recent recommendation of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) for approval for the envir… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, some researchers have discovered five new species of Black Corals living as deep as 2,500 feet (762 metres) below the surface in t… Continue Reading
Context: The Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) has approved the Himalayan Yak as a ‘food animal’. The move is expected to help… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the 4th India-France Defense Dialogue was held in India. Relevance: GS2 About: Key Highlights:- -Defence Industrial Cooperati… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Ministry of Urban Development launches the “Nai Chetna-Pahal Badlav Ki”- A Community-led National Campaign Against Gender-… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the State of the Climate in Asia 2021 report was published by the World Meteorological Organization and the UN Economic and Social… Continue Reading
Context: Most economists advocate converting all agricultural subsidies into direct income assistance to farmers in the form of per-acre or per-farme… Continue Reading
Context: In a major setback to rhino conservation in Africa, the proposal to downgrade the status of southern white rhino from Appendix I to Appendix… Continue Reading
Context: One of the biggest fallouts of the pandemic globally has been the low routine immunisation coverage of children. Asper WHO data ,nearly 40 m… Continue Reading
Context: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman expressed concern over the revival of the old pension scheme (OPS) by some States, saying it would burden future ta… Continue Reading
Context: Several smartphones have their Bluetooth settings on discovery mode as it is a default setting, making it vulnerable to bluebugging. Releva… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully launched the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C54 from the Sat… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), held a meeting of the China-Indian Ocean Region Forum in which 19 … Continue Reading
Context: Amid India's reliance on China for rare earth minerals imports, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has urged the government to encou… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Union Home Ministry proposed amendment to the Registration of Birth and Death (RBD) Act, 1969. The bill will be introduced in … Continue Reading
Context: Several states have recently urged the central government to reduce its reliance on revenue-raising cesses and surcharges, which lower their… Continue Reading
Context: Odisha’s Kutia Kondh tribe worship and exchange millet seeds in a celebration during Burlang Yatra festival. Relevance: Prelims – Art … Continue Reading
Context: The government of India has approved a Rs 124 crore proposal for setting up incubation centres in the Delhi and Bengaluru campuses of the Cen… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the fourth edition of Indo Pacific Regional Dialogue concluded in Delhi. Relevance: GS1 - Groupings About: Indo Pacific Region… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Russian state-owned Nuclear Energy corporation Rosatom has offered a more Advanced Fuel Option to India’s largest nuclear po… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Supreme Court has issued notice to the Centre and the Attorney General for India on a plea by two gay couples seeking recognit… Continue Reading
Context: Prime Minister of India launched various new initiatives under the e-court project including Virtual Justice Clock, JustIS mobile App 2.0, D… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, Russia touted its Arctic power at a flag-raising ceremony and dock launch for two nuclear-powered icebreakers that will ensure yea… Continue Reading
Context: According to former RBI Governor C Rangarajan, containing domestic inflation is critical to halting the rupee depreciation. Relevance: GS3… Continue Reading
Context: India carried out a successful training launch of the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Agni-3 developed by DRDO, from APJ Abdul K… Continue Reading
Context: During recently concluded the 19th Conference of Parties (COP19) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Faun… Continue Reading
Context: Recently in a significant development in the Tibetan Buddhist circles, the Nyingma sect has identified a boy from Spiti in Himachal Pradesh a… Continue Reading
Context: Rooftop solar capacity installations in India fell 29% to 320 megawatt (MW) in July-September 2022, according to Mercom Research India. Re… Continue Reading
Context: The Supreme Court Collegium led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud published its resolution recommending the transfer of seven High … Continue Reading
Context: At COP27, a broad coalition of 18 governments joined together to create a new high-level group ‘Ambition on Melting Ice (AMI) on Sea-level… Continue Reading
Context: India and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have agreed to pursue a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two regions and resume the negot… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, India has decided not to vote against a proposal to re-open the international trade in ivory at the ongoing conference of the Conv… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, six people were killed and several others injured during an alleged clash between the Assam Police and a mob in an area bordering … Continue Reading
Context: The 19th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP19) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and F… Continue Reading
Context: Recently, the Defence Minister of India participated in the 9th ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) Plus in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Relevan… Continue Reading
Context: A new study projects that climate change will significantly impact El Niño-La Niña weather patterns approximately by 2030 — a decade bef… Continue Reading
GS ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT : The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2022 — COP27 — opened in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) with the aim of ensuring… Continue Reading
GS-2 INTERNATIONAL RELATION CONTEXT: The 19th ASEAN-India Summit was held recently in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. India was represented by Vice President … Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT: Recently a herd of elephants in Odisha drank fermented water to make mahua and went into a deep sleep. About: The flo… Continue Reading
GS-3 ECONOMY CONTEXT: Recently the Central government released the Sovereign Green Bonds Framework. The revenue generated from the issuance of sover… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT: During the COP27 climate summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the UAE and Indonesia announced the "Mangrove Alliance for… Continue Reading
GS-3 Health and environment Context: Pregnant woman from Pollachi dies of leptospirosis. Brief about Leptospirosis It is a bacterial disease that… Continue Reading
GS- 3 Scientific Innovations & Discoveries GS Paper - 2 Health Context : Every state and Union territory (UT) has reported dengue cases so far th… Continue Reading
Colour-Coded Warnings by the IMD-The Hindu-12-11-2022 (Note: Read this topic from a prelim point of view ) GS-1 Physical Geography Prelim : Colo… Continue Reading
GS-3 Disaster and management Context: NDRF deploys teams in four districts that received heavy rain. PRELIM and MAINS: Know about NDRF : (NDRF)… Continue Reading
GS-2 Governance Context: The Union Cabinet has approved the new guidelines for uplinking and downlinking of television channels in India What ar… Continue Reading
GS-2 IR CONTEXT :United Nations Secretary General has warned private corporations to desist the practice of Greenwashing and mend their ways with… Continue Reading
Tea-The Hindu-11-11-2022 GS - 3 Agricultural Resources Cropping Patterns CONTEXT : Tea produced in the Northeast is safe to drink, a risk as… Continue Reading
Center Restricts use of Glyphosate-The Hindu-11-11-2022 GS-3 AGRICULTURE CONTEXT - The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has restrict… Continue Reading
Ayurveda in India-The Hindu-11-11-2022 GS-3 inclusive Growth CONTEXT - Ayurveda, India’s traditional medicine, has been in practice for close t… Continue Reading
(Dear student covers this topic for Mains You may get directly based on this topic) GS - 3 Conservation of Water Resources, Irrigation CONTEXT:… Continue Reading
GS - 3 Growth and development, employment Context: Pashmina shawl traders have moved to Delhi High Court complaining of being subjected to Custo… Continue Reading
Chief Justice of India-The Hindu-10-11-2022 (Dear student read this content from your main core book and study material and solve question based on… Continue Reading
Corruption-The Hindu-10-11-2022 GS-4 ethics and governance Context :"The corrupt destroy the country" Supreme Court counters government in Gautam N… Continue Reading
Uttarakhand Foundation Day-The Hindu-09-11-2022 GS-2 Polity Context: About Uttarakhand Foundation Day Uttarakhand was formed by combining s… Continue Reading
Amendments in Electoral Bond Scheme-The Hindu-09-11-2022 GS-2 POLITY What is the Electoral Bond Scheme? Electoral Bonds: Electoral bonds�… Continue Reading
Garuda VII-The Hindu-09-11-2022 GS-3 : SECURITY : Context- Indian Air Force (IAF) and French Air and Space Force (FASF) are participating in '… Continue Reading
Great Nicobar Project-The Hindu-09-11-2022 GS-3 INCLUSIVE GROWTH: CONTEXT : NITI Aayog-piloted Rs. 72,000-crore integrated project in Grea… Continue Reading
Rabies-The Hindu-09-11-2022 GS-3 ENVIRONMENT AND DISEASE CONTEXT : Wild animals occasionally contribute to rabies cases in villages located in the… Continue Reading
India-Russia Trade-The Hindu-08-11-2022 GS-2 Internatioanl Relation Context : Ministry of Commerce and Industry has released data showing that I… Continue Reading
National Population Register | NPR-The Hindu-08-11-2022 GS-2, Polity National Population Register | NPR What is National Population Register … Continue Reading
FCRA-The Hindu-08-11-2022 GS Paper 2: Polity and Governance Context : The steps help to effectively monitor the receipt and utilisation of fo… Continue Reading
Neelakurinji flowers (Strobilanthes kunthiana)-The Hindu-08-11-2022 GS-3 Environment Prelim : Know brief about Neelakurinji flowers (Strobi… Continue Reading
GS-2 POLITY CONTEXT : Recently, the Supreme Court (SC) has questioned the methodology adopted by the government in fixing Rs. 8 lakh as the a… Continue Reading
Uniform Civil Code-The Hindu-07-11-2022 GS Paper - 2 polity Fundamental Rights Directive Principles of State Policy Issues Related to… Continue Reading
Snow Leopard-The Hindu-07-11-2022 GS-3 ENVIRONMENT About: Scientific Name: Panthera uncia Top Predator: Snow leopards act as an indicator… Continue Reading
GS-3 ECONOMY What is the Size of India's Online Gaming Market? Revenue and Industry Growth: The revenue of the Indian mobile gaming industry… Continue Reading
Demand for Restoring the Old Pension Scheme-The Hindu-07-11-2022 GS-1 SOVIAL ISSUE : Context :- Many states are demanding to restore the Old Pe… Continue Reading
GS-2 ENVIRONMENT : Highlights of Bee: There are almost 20,000 different species of bees in the world. Bees live in colonies and in each colo… Continue Reading
Stubble Burning-The hindu-05-11-2022 Government Policies & Interventions GS Paper - 2 Environment GS Paper - 3 Why Stubble Burning? … Continue Reading
gs-1 Prelims – Geography Context: A science writer writes in BBC that the banana tree is equated to Lord Brihaspati (Jupiter) for fertility a… Continue Reading
Chhattisgarh Foundation Day-The Hindu-05-11-2022 GS-2 POLITY Chhattisgarh Foundation Day Context - third edition of the National Tribal Dance Fe… Continue Reading
Mt. Mauna Loa-The Hindu-05-11-2022 GS-1 GEOGRAPHY Mt. Mauna Loa Context: The ground is shaking and swelling at Mauna Loa, the largest active … Continue Reading
Reforms in MSME Sector-The Hindu-04-11-2022 GS-3 ECONOMY CONTEXT : Reforms in MSME Sector The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(MSMEs) sect… Continue Reading
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights-The Hindu-04-11-2022 GS-2 Issues Related to Children Education in background : Nationa… Continue Reading
Sealed Cover Jurisprudence and Related Issues-The Hindu-04-11-2022 GS-2 POLITY CONTEXT :The Supreme Court of ask information from government agenc… Continue Reading
Wangala festival begins in Meghalaya-The Hindu-04-11-2022 GS-1 art and culture context: Wangala festival begins in Meghalaya Prelims : Megha… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT Context : The study found that the rate of decline in horn length was highest in the critically endangered Sumatran rhino and lowe… Continue Reading
Fertilizers in India-The Hindu-03-11-2022 GS-3 AGRICULTURE CONTEXT: Cabinet approves a subsidy of ₹51,875 crore for nitrogen, phosphorus, potash … Continue Reading
Mangarh Dham-The hindu-02-11-2022 GS-1 Art and culture Context : About Mangarh Dham: Mangarh Dham is known for the massacre of tribals that t… Continue Reading
GS-2 Saffron is a plant whose dried stigmas (thread-like parts of the flower) are used to make saffron spice. Saffron cultivation is believed to… Continue Reading
GS Paper - 3 Economy Government Policies & Interventions CONTEXT Rise in Gst revenue Introduction The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is… Continue Reading
GS-3 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY-AGRICULTURE CONTEXT: Researchers validate immunity-boosting ability of ‘curcumin compound’ against mastitis in cattle. M… Continue Reading
Tiangong Space Station-The Hindu -01-11-2022 GS-3 SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY KNOW BRIEF ABOUT Tiangong Tiangong means “Heavenly Palace”. It was 1… Continue Reading
Sedition Law-The Hindu-01-10-2022 GS-2 POLITY In Context The government has asked the SC to defer the hearing on Sedition law. About The Home Mi… Continue Reading
GS-1 HISTORY CONTEXT : BACKGROUND : Prime Minister has inaugurated the Statue of Unity at Kevadiya in Narmada district of Gujarat. The Statue … Continue Reading
CAG report on violation of coastal ecosystem norms-The INDIAN EXPRESS-29-10-2022 GS-2 CONTEXT: Recently, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C… Continue Reading
GRAP Stage II-The Hindu-27-10-2022 Gs-3 Environment Context : GRAP Stage II kicks in as Delhi’s air quality may turn ‘very poor-The Commissi… Continue Reading
Circular economy-The Hindu-31-10-2022 GS-3 Economy(CORE SYLLABUS) Prelim and Mains A circular economy (also referred to as “circularity”)i… Continue Reading
Turning paddy straw into Compressed Bio Gas-the Hindu-26-10-2022 GS-3 ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT: The renewable energy revolution in agriculture has st… Continue Reading
GS-3 ECONOMY: In ‑2013, the tax department issued a notice to Google proposing to treat payments made by Google India to Google Ireland as royal… Continue Reading
GS-3 SCIENCE TECH CONTEXT: Rustom-2 has been designed and developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), Bengaluru. About Rustom-2… Continue Reading
CAR-T Therapy-The Hindu-22-10-2022 GS-3 SCIENCE & TECH CONTEXT: Researchers streamline way to manufacture CAR T-cells in just 24 hrs CAR-T thera… Continue Reading
Conservation of vultures-The Hindu-21-10-2022 GS-3 ENVIRONMENT: A total of nine species of vultures are found in India. Out of these six species a… Continue Reading
IBSAMAR VII-The Hindu-21-10-2022 GS-3 INTERNAL SECURITY PRELIM AND MAINS : What is IBSAMAR VII? It is a joint Multinational Maritime Exercise … Continue Reading
PM-DevINE Scheme-The Hindu-21-10-2022 GS-2 GOVERNMENT SCHEMES AND GOVERNNACE What is PM-DevINE Scheme? About: PM-DevINE will lead to the creation… Continue Reading
Six spider species-The Hindu-19-10-2022 GS-3 ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT: Arachnologists from the Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology (CATE), Christ C… Continue Reading
Nihonshu-The Hindu-19-10-2022 GS-2 GI TAG: CONTEXT : The Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, has fled an application seeking a Geographical Indication (G… Continue Reading
Kedarnath Temple-The Hindu-19-10-2022 GS-1 ART AND CULTURE CONTEXT : Helcopter crash PRELIM AND MAINS Kedarnath Temple is a Hindu shrine dedic… Continue Reading
GS-2 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Indian Coast Guard is hosting the 18th HACGAM in coordination with the HACGAM secretariat at New Delhi. It is a … Continue Reading
GS-3 agriculture environment PRELIM AND MAINS Mock meat is a term used for alternative meat options. It can be created from plant-based proteins … Continue Reading
One Nation One Fertilizer-The Hindu-18-10-2022 GS-2 GOVERNMENT SCHEMES AND GOVERNANCE CONTEXT : PRELIM AND MAINS : What is the One Nation One Fer… Continue Reading
GS-3 MAP IN NEWS: Veerangana Durgawati Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in the Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh, India. Named after Rani D… Continue Reading
GS-2 SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY context:Scientists have detected barium in the upper atmosphere of two giant exoplanets for the first time. What is Bariu… Continue Reading
GS-3 ECONOMY: CONTEXT: What do you mean by Green investment? The term “green investments” refers to investment activities that are focused on … Continue Reading
GS-3 ECONOMY: CONTEXT: What do you mean by Green investment? The term “green investments” refers to investment activities that are focused on … Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT : PRELIM AND MAINS: The Global Hunger Index is a peer-reviewed annual report, jointly published by Concern Worldwide an… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT : PRELIM AND MAINS: The Global Hunger Index is a peer-reviewed annual report, jointly published by Concern Worldwide an… Continue Reading
GS-3 AGRICULTURE PRELIMS AND MAINS India’s Agricultural Production and Statistics- Doing by Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD) … Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT: Population policies are being developed to address unmet needs in relation to population. It includes contraception, … Continue Reading
GS-3 SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CONTEXT : Launchers or Launch Vehicles are used to carry spacecraft to space. India has two operational launchers: Polar Sa… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT : PRELIM AND MAINS: Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940: The Act regulates the import, manufacture, and distribution of drugs … Continue Reading
GS-3 ECONOMY CONTEXT: What are Free Trade Agreements? A Free trade Agreement (FTA) is an agreement between two or more countries where the countr… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT : CONTEXT: Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday notified the Kaduvur slender loris sanctuary covering 11,806 hectares in Karur and Di… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE IN BACKGROUND About NBDA The News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA) [Formerly known as News Broadcasters Association … Continue Reading
GS-3 Economy Prelim: What Is a Reverse Auction? A reverse auction is a type of auction in which sellers bid for the prices at which they are will… Continue Reading
GS-2&4 GOVERNANCE About the RTI Act, 2005: An Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secu… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE AND GOVERNMENT SCHEMES: CONTEXT: Background : “Government has always encouraged and empowered girls to pursue the vocation of… Continue Reading
GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE : CONTEXT: Disparity among States in facilities for eye donation. Prelim and Mains : Eye donation :- In most cases, loss of sig… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT: CONTEXT : Cannabidiol (CBD) is a chemical in the Cannabis sativa plant, also known as cannabis or hemp. One specific form of CBD … Continue Reading
GS-3 Disease and environment: Context: Prelim and mains: Lassa fever is an animal-borne, or zoonotic, the acute viral illness spread by the common… Continue Reading
DAKSH-The Hindu-08-10-2022 GS-3 ECONOMY : CONTEXT : RBI launches advanced supervisory monitoring system DAKSH. DAKSH is a web-based end-to-end wo… Continue Reading
DAKSH-The Hindu-08-10-2022 GS-3 ECONOMY : CONTEXT : RBI launches advanced supervisory monitoring system DAKSH. DAKSH is a web-based end-to-end wo… Continue Reading
GS-3 ECONOMY CONTEXT: World food prices have fallen for the sixth month in a row in September, UN data showed on Friday, as they continued to decli… Continue Reading
GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE CONTEXT: Tamil Nadu Minister for Social Welfare Geetha Jeevan on Friday ordered the closure and sealing of a private children’s … Continue Reading
GS-1 AWARD PERSONALITY IN NEWS CONTEXT : The 2022 Peace Prize is awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian hum… Continue Reading
GS-3 ECONOMY IN DETAIL: The world bank has trimmed its estimate for India’s growth in the current fiscal year (FY22-23) to 6.5%. Its previous pr… Continue Reading
GS-1 PERSONALITY IN NEWS: CONTEXT: French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and … Continue Reading
GS-3 ECONOMY: CONTEXT: PRELIM AND MAINS: What Is a Gig Economy? A gig economy is a free market system in which temporary positions are common… Continue Reading
GS-3: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: CONTEXT : The indigenously developed Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) Prachand, meaning ferce, was formally inducted into… Continue Reading
Ganga Gram-The Hindu-06-10-2022 GS-3 ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT : Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Uma Bharati, held the fourth Ganga Gr… Continue Reading
GS-3 IN Background: The government had launched the SAMARTH Mission i.e., National Mission on Use of Biomass in coal based thermal Power Plants. W… Continue Reading
.Criteria for deciding creamy layer-The Hindu-06-10-2022 GS-2 POLITY : CONTEXT : Scheduled Caste is not a caste, but a legal name awarded to membe… Continue Reading
IBC-The Hindu-06-10-2022 GS-2 GOVERNANCE: Context:- The sixth anniversary of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) on October 1, Wh… Continue Reading
Economy GS-3 IN SHORTS: PRELIM: The RBI had hiked the repo rate by another 50bps points on 30th September in the wake of high domestic retail in… Continue Reading
GS-3 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PRELIM : China has reportedly withdrawn its draft resolution against the AUKUS grouping at the International Atomic En… Continue Reading
GS-3 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTEXT: The race to provide exhaustive satellite broadband services in India Satellite communication has been gainin… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT • research by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, has shown that some chemicals secreted by medicinal fungi … Continue Reading
GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE : CONTEXT : Last month in Tamil Nadu, a two-year-old girl was found alone in a government bus. The crying toddler was handed over… Continue Reading
International Day of Older People-The Hindu-01-10-2022 GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE: CONTEXT : The United Nations marks today as International Day for Older … Continue Reading
FOREIGN TRIBUNAL-The Hindu-01-10-2022 GS-2 POLITY CONTEXT: The Assam government has decided not to extend the term of members who were appointed f… Continue Reading
GS-2 POLITY & GOVERNANCE CONTEXT : BACKGROUND The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Bill was passed by both the Houses of Parliament and it was approv… Continue Reading
R Venkataramani-The Hindu-29-09-2022 GS-1 PERSONALITY IN NEWS : CONTEXT: Senior advocate in the Supreme Court of India R Venkataramani was on Wedn… Continue Reading
2. Lt. General Anil Chauhan-The Hindu-29-09-2022 Gs-1 Personality in news Context: Lt. General Anil Chauhan will be our new chief defence service(… Continue Reading
1. ASI finds Buddhist caves, and temples in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in M.P. GS-1 Art and culture Context : The ruins of temples at Bandhavgarh r… Continue Reading
1. United Nations Security Council-The Hindu-28-09-2022 GS-2 INTER The Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of interna… Continue Reading
Jaldoot-The Hindu-28-09-2022 Gs-3 Water resources CONTEXT : Jaldoot— jointly developed by the Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Ministries A… Continue Reading
GS-3 ECONOMY : CONTEXT : The Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) report of 2021-22 on the fourth round (January-March) says that the manufacturing se… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNNANCE AND ETHHICS Context: State of digital trust report 2022 has been released by ISACA. Digital trust is the confidence users have … Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNNANCE AND ETHHICS Context: State of digital trust report 2022 has been released by ISACA. Digital trust is the confidence users have … Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNNANCE AND ETHHICS Context: State of digital trust report 2022 has been released by ISACA. Digital trust is the confidence users have … Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNNANCE AND ETHHICS Context: State of digital trust report 2022 has been released by ISACA. Digital trust is the confidence users have … Continue Reading
NavIC system-The Hindu-27-09-2022 GS-3 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CONTEXT : The Union Government is pushing techno giants to make smartphones compatible… Continue Reading
GS-3 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PRELIM AND MAINS : About DART MISSION : NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - the world's first planeta… Continue Reading
GS-3 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CONTEXT : Semiconductors are the thumbnail-sized building blocks of almost every modern electronic device from smartphone… Continue Reading
Chambal wildlife sanctuary-The Hindu-27-09-2022 GS-3 ENVIRONMENT ( Dear Student keep this topic at one page and see it in map and locate nearby i… Continue Reading
1. The Mysuru Palace on Dasara-The Hindu-26-09-2022 GS-2 ART AND CULTURE CONTEXT : During the Dasara celebrations, the Mysuru Palace will take cen… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT What do you mean by Nanoparticles ? Extremely small pieces or particles of plastic resulting from the disposal or breakdown of pla… Continue Reading
The world rose day- The Hindu-22-09-2022 Gs-1 History Context: Rose day is celebrated on 22 Sept every year. Why is World Rose Day celebrated? Wo… Continue Reading
GREEN EVENT TOOLS-The Hindu-22-09-2022 GS-2 KNOW ABOUT Green Event Tools : The GET is suitable for management, conference, meeting, exhibiti… Continue Reading
Hybrid propulsion system-The Hindu-22-09-2022 GS-3 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTEXT: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Wednesday… Continue Reading
Red sandlehood –The Hindu-21-09-2022 Gs-3 Environment Context : Prelim and Mains: Red Sandalwood timber is used for carvings, furniture, poles,… Continue Reading
GS-2 Governance : Context :Gun violence is an issue that is hotly debated in countries such as the U.S. Background : Gun laws and policies, coll… Continue Reading
Raju srivastav-The Hindu-21-09-2022 Gs-1 Personality in news Context : RAJU SRIVASTAV PASSED AWAY. KNOW ABOUT RAJU SRIVASTAV Satya Prakash Sr… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT: The State may have embarked on radical changes in the curriculum, school restructuring and the mode of teaching, but it ne… Continue Reading
“India’s relations with Israel have, of late, acquired a depth and diversity, which cannot be rolled back.”Discuss.-150 WORDS Import… Continue Reading
Gs -3 Science technology In background : It is a smart vaccine testing method that safekeep animals and humans while measuring neurovirulence. N… Continue Reading
Merge software- The Hindu-20-09-2022 Gs-3 Science Technology : Context : In news Prelim and Mains : Ethereum, the world’s second most valuab… Continue Reading
GS-2 Governance CONTEXT BACKGROUND PRELIM AND MAINS: PRIME MINISTER LAUNCHES NATIONAL LOGISTICS POLICY (NLP) Policy Aims to: The policy en… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT : BACKGROUND PRELIM AND MAINS: Define Death Penalty or Capital punishment? It can be defined as the execution of an… Continue Reading
GS-3: AGRICULTURE : Indian Council of Agricultural Research with its National Agricultural Higher Education Project and Crop Science Division is org… Continue Reading
GS-2 AGRICULTURE: CONTEXT: A farmer harvesting kinnows on a farm on the outskirts of Faridkot in Punjab. BACKGROUND : -The 'Kinnow' is a high-yi… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT : CONTEXT :A farmer burning paddy stubble on a farm at a village on the outskirts of Amritsar Stubble (parali) burning is a meth… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT : The term 'Scheduled Tribes' first appeared in the Constitution of India Article 366 (25) defined scheduled tribes as … Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT : NSDF has inked MoU with NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) Foundation and REC (Rural Electrification Corporation) … Continue Reading
The Eastern Economic Forum-The Hindu-16-09-2022 GS-3 ECONOMY CONTEXT : The EEF was established in 2015. Aim : To encourage foreign investme… Continue Reading
GS-2 POLITY CONTEXT: The circular has specified that no penalty would be imposed if the central funds are not available with the State. PRELIM A… Continue Reading
GS-2 POLITY CONTEXT : Reservation cannot be implemented as a “poverty alleviation programme” for the socially and educationally forward classes… Continue Reading
GS-1 GEOGRAPHY RESOURCE AND ITS ALLOCATION CONTEXT: Iran may urge India to restart oil imports. Prelim and Mains : Background : The petr… Continue Reading
GS-3 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTEXT : Ivermectin and mupirocin have been added, while ranitidine and sucralfate have been dropped from the NLEM lis… Continue Reading
Gs-1 Personality in news Context : Veteran archaeologist B. B. Lal passed away. Background : Braj Basi lal was an archaeologist.He was an … Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANANCE : CONTEXT : All India Institute of Ayurveda, under the Ministry of Ayush, on Monday launched the programme for Ayurveda Day. The … Continue Reading
GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE CONTEXY : The Supreme Court did not entertain a plea advocating a link between watching Internet porn and sex crimes, includi… Continue Reading
THE CITIZENSHIP (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019-The Hindu-13-09-2022 GS-2 POLITY CONTEXT : The Supreme Court fixed the hearing in 220 petitions challengin… Continue Reading
GS-2 POLITY Context : Gyanvyapi's petition filed in court vs Supreme Court set the ball rolling on a series of petitions challenging the validity o… Continue Reading
GS-1 GEOGRAPHY : Geomagnetic storm A geomagnetic storm, also known as a magnetic storm, is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere cau… Continue Reading
GS-1 : PERSONALITY IN NEWS : CONTEXT : Know About Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati. Swaroopanand Saraswati was born Pothiram Upadhyay on 2 September 1… Continue Reading
GS-3 SECURITY CONTEXT : Taragiri, the third stealth frigate of Project 17A, was launched on Sunday by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. PRELIM AND MA… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNMENT SCHEMES CONTEXT : AIM The objective of providing economic support to the poor and needy families living in the cities through… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT : PRELIM & MAINS : What is Miyawaki method ? The method involves planting two to four trees per square metre. Miyawaki forests gr… Continue Reading
GS-2 Government schemes Context :Ministry of Rural Development on Friday announced a nationwide campaign to expedite the inclusion of women who are … Continue Reading
GS-3 Science technology Context : Prelims and Mains : The Vande Bharat train is an indigenously designed and manufactured semi-high speed, sel… Continue Reading
GS-2 POLITY Context : Supreme Court set the ball rolling on a series of petitions challenging the validity of the Places of Worship Act of 1991, Si… Continue Reading
GS-1 ART AND CULTURE About: Shumang Leela is a traditional form of theatre in Manipur and the roles of female artists are all played by male… Continue Reading
GS-2 CONTEXT : Centre has announced constitution of a national level committee for drafting NCP. Existing National Policy on Cooperatives was form… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNMENT SCHEMES CONTEXT : PM SHRI scheme to turn existing government schools into model schools for implementation of the National Educ… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE What is Corporate Social Responsiblity ? Corporate social responsibility is a business model by which companies make a concer… Continue Reading
African cheetahs-The Hindu-07-09-2022 GS-3 ENVIRONMENT : CONTEXT : The much-awaited arrival of African cheetahs to India may be timed for Prime Mi… Continue Reading
GS-1 Personality in news Context : The controversy over the nomination for the Ramon Magsaysay Award. About Ramon Magsaysay Award: The Ramon Ma… Continue Reading
GS-2 INTERNATIONAL RELATION : CONTEXT : Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the ceremonial reception at t… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT PRELIM BACKGROUND : Norway is building the world's first open-access CCS infrastructure on Norway's North Sea coast. It will all… Continue Reading
Marriage Act and Provision-The Hindu-06-09-2022 GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE CONTEXT : Background : Marriage Act and Provision : A marriage which has alr… Continue Reading
Conversion therapy-The Hindu-06-09-2022 GS-3 SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CONTEXT : Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to c… Continue Reading
Indian Astronomical observatory-The Hindu-05-09-2022 GS-3 SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CONTEXT : The Himalayan Chandra Telescope at Hanle in Ladakh. PR… Continue Reading
Special maternity leave in case of infant death GS-1 WOMEN EMPOWERMENT CONTEXT : Central government has decided to grant a 60 days special matern… Continue Reading
GS-3 Economy Context : A Brief Overview The Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 led the foundation of the IMF. The International Monetary Fund… Continue Reading
GS-3 AGRICULTURE CONTEXT Impacted by heavy rain and floods in Telangana, the cropping pattern this Kharif season has ducked the plans of the Agri… Continue Reading
GS-3 SECURITY CONTEXT: The new naval ensign will replace the present ensign Know more about the New Ensign of the Navy. New Ensign of Navy The … Continue Reading
GS-3 SECURITY : CONTEXT : NS VIKRANT is an aircraft carrier constructed by cochin Shipyard limited for the Indian Navy. It will be the first ai… Continue Reading
GS-2 International Organisation : CONTEXT : Background : What is QUAD? QUAD Known as the 'Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) The Quad is … Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT: PARAKH would facilitate the sharing of best practices across educational institutions and guarantee that academic expectat… Continue Reading
GS-2 Governance Context : Cri-MAC was launched to share info on significant crimes across the country. Prelim : About CRI-MAC CRI-MAC is… Continue Reading
GS-3 AGRICULTURE Alibagh (Maharastra) is known for growing white onion using the traditional method and utilizing geo-climatic conditions for a uniq… Continue Reading
Potassium Iodide/Anti-radiation pills-The Indian Express-01-09-2022 GS-3 Environment Context : With fears of a nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Zap… Continue Reading
GS-2 POLITY CONTEXT : Bhang, ganja, and criminality in the NDPS Act, punishment is based on the number of drugs seized. What is bhang? Bhang … Continue Reading
Mikhail Gorbachev-The Indian express-01-09-2022 GS-1 PERSONALITY IN NEWS CONTEXT: Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold… Continue Reading
GS-2 INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION CONTEXT: Transport ministers from the UK and Ukraine have signed a joint action plan to help rebuild Ukraine’s tr… Continue Reading
GS-3 SCIENCE TECH: CONTEXT: Prelim About Zombie ice Dead or Doomed ice not accumulating fresh snow. Zombie ice from massive greenland ic… Continue Reading
GS-2 POLITY CONTEXT : The Supreme Court dismissed a writ petition challenging provisions of the Special Marriage Act (SMA), 1954. MAINS : BACKGRO… Continue Reading
GS-1 ART & CULTURE TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE CONTEXT : A pookkalam (flower arrangement) was set up in front of the famed Vadakkunnathan temple in Thri… Continue Reading
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Atal Bridge-The Hindu-30-08-2022 GS-1 HISTORY: CONTEXT: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate another attraction added near the Sabarm… Continue Reading
5G Architecture-The Hindu-30-08-2022 GS-3 SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY: CONTEXT: Reliance JIO is going to launch a 5G network in a few metro cities by diw… Continue Reading
Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu- The Hindu-30-08-2022 GS-3 ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT: Forest personnel with an elephant calf rescued from a river … Continue Reading
GS-2 POLITY CONTEXT: According to the NCRB report rape, kidnapping, atrocities against children, and robberies increased last year. PRELIM AND M… Continue Reading
GS-3 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTEXT : IIT Guwahati has introduced a new method of formation of sugar from waste sugarcane waste called xylitol. … Continue Reading
Malnourishment-The Hindu-29-08-2022 GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE : CONTEXT: Modi urges people to join the fight against malnourishment. MAINS: Malnouris… Continue Reading
GS-1 HISTORY : CONTEXT : The system of postal codes in India. PRELIM & MAINS: A Postal Index Number (PIN), or sometimes redundantly a PIN cod… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT : CONTEXT : The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) at Panbari near the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger … Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT : More than 2,000 pigs have died due to the African swine fever in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa city. PRELIM: Know ab… Continue Reading
India, and Tanzania to set up defence task force-The Hindu-27-08-2022 GS-3 SECURITY : CONTEXT : Joint task force between two nation India and Tanz… Continue Reading
Human-animal conflict-Down The earth-27-08-2022 GS-3 ENVIRONMENT Context : Recently, the Minister of State for Forest, Environment and Climate C… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT : PRELIM: One Nation One Fertiliser scheme Under the scheme, all fertiliser companies in the country have to sell their products … Continue Reading
Constitutional provision for disqualification of membership-The Hindu-27-08-2022 Context : The Election Commission of India has told Jharkhand Gover… Continue Reading
GS-1 Geography Context: The 52nd meeting of the Investment Board of Nepal (IBN) held on Monday decided to hand over NHPC Limited, India, to study an… Continue Reading
GS-1 Society & Governance: CONTEXT: Maharashtra to get the first Divyang park in Nagpur. Prelim : Divyang Park will have different kinds of facil… Continue Reading
GS-1 Art and culture In detail : In the ancient Sanskrit language of Hinduism and Buddhism, mandala means “circle.” Traditionally, a mandal… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT: Modi Will Inaugurate The Memorial To The School Children And Teachers Killed In The 2001 Earthquake. The memorial �… Continue Reading
GS-2 Government schemes and intervention : MATSYA SETU An android mobile app developed by ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhub… Continue Reading
GS-3 Government schemes and intervention Context : What is the Grameen Udyami Project? Grameen Udyami is a unique multi-skilling project, fund… Continue Reading
GS-1 PERSON IN NEWS: Context : On 23 August, Google dedicated a doodle to Anna Mani. IN BREIEF: Anna Mani was an Indian physicist and meteoro… Continue Reading
Hungry stone-V2VIAS_R&D_CA-25-08-2022 Gs-1 Personality and contribution In brief : Hungry Stones in Bengali it is written as Kshudhita Pashan or … Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT : CONTEXT : PRELIM What is PFAS: PFAS are a large, complex group of manufactured chemicals that are ingredients in various… Continue Reading
GS-1 CONTEXT : This healthy snack from Bihar has now made its place on the list of GI Tags in India. PRELIM & MAINS : MITHILA MAKHANA The botan… Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT : Researchers want Odisha’s Angul to plan a transition to green energy, and economy. In detail: What is iFOREST? … Continue Reading
GS-1 PERSONALITY IN NEWS CONTEXT : Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will travel to Mexico to unveil the statue of freedom fighter and agriculturalist… Continue Reading
GS-3 SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CONTEXT: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy successfully flight tested the indi… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE MAINS : What is the Bilkis Bano case? Gujarat had turned violent after the Sabarmati train was burnt in Godhra on 27 February … Continue Reading
GS-1 SOCIETY CONTEXT : More will migration and interaction will lead to acculturation. PRELIM: (NOTE:-From a prelim point of view, you need t… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT : ‘Kerala Savari’, the country’s first-time online taxi service owned by a State Government, cab service launched … Continue Reading
GS-3 ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT : Health Department personnel carrying out thermal screening amid the tomato flu scare. What is tomato flu? Tomato… Continue Reading
GS-3 Environment and Ecology Context : Boating was suspended at Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary in Mysuru due to heavy flooding. Prelim : -Ran… Continue Reading
GS-3 Economy Context : Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) transactions is likely to rise from 24 million in 2022 to 40 million by 2027. What is NFT ? … Continue Reading
Rabies-The Hindu-22-08-2022 Gs-3 Context : Rabies is a viral disease that causes encephalitis in humans and other mammals. Symptoms : F… Continue Reading
GS-2 International Relation Context : India China relation: Important Political event and visits of india china : 1950: India became t… Continue Reading
GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT :CBI issued LOC TO 8 private person in Manish Sisodiya case. PRELIM & MAINS—--- What is look out circular ? An … Continue Reading
GOA BECOMES THE FIRST ‘HAR GHAR JAL’ CERTIFIED STATE GS-2 GOVERNANCE CONTEXT : PRELIM AND MAINS : Goa and Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & D… Continue Reading
Megalodon-The Hindu-20-08-2022 GS-3 Context: one of the largest predators to have ever lived. In detail : Megalodon is one frightening-looking fis… Continue Reading
GS-3 GOVERNMENT SCHEMES Context: Government will provide subsidies to all financial institutions (Banks) for short-term agriculture loans given to… Continue Reading
CONTEXT : Access to TKDL has been widened to users Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) is a pioneering initiative of India systematicall… Continue Reading
GS-1 Social Issue : CONTEXT : An accident at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya killed one person and left another battling for his life. IN DE… Continue Reading
GS-3 : ENVIRONMENT : CONTEXT: Bustards adapt to produce a 2-egg clutch PRELIM : Bustards are magnificent, tall(1 meter), weight (17kg ), … Continue Reading
GS-3 Context : Amul and Mother Dairy have raised their prices of milk, and several other dairy companies across the country India bein… Continue Reading
GS-1 PERSONALITY IN NEWS : Salma al Shehab is a citizen of Saudi Arabia. Ms Shehab, a PhD candidate at Britain’s University and a mother of tw… Continue Reading
GS-2 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION CONTEXT : PRELIM The Group of Twenty - G20 Introduction The Group of Twenty, or G20, is the premier for… Continue Reading
GS-1 Geography Context : Arctic is heating four times faster than the rest of the planet. PRELIM: Arctic amplification is the fact that… Continue Reading
GS-3 Environment : Nature Index 2022 Nature Index is an indicator of high-quality research in natural and physical sciences (including chemistry,… Continue Reading
GS-1 PERSONALITY IN NEWS CONTEXT: Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born novelist, gained prominence with his 1981 novel 'Midnight's Children, which wa… Continue Reading
GS-3 Context : Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India has achieved its target of blending 10% sugarcane extracted ethanol in petrol, a… Continue Reading
GS-1 Geography Context: India has taken rapid strides in reducing child mortality since 2014 from 45 per 1,000 live births to 35 per 1,000 liv… Continue Reading
GS-3 SCIENCE TECH CONTEXT : 3Dprinted a cornea and transplanted it into a rabbit’s eye. In Detail : What do you mean by 3Dprinted a cornea?… Continue Reading
Dornier aircraft-The Hindu-16-08-2022 GS-3 SECURITY : CONTEXT : India gifted Dornier aircraft to Sri Lanka in the presence of President Ranil Wic… Continue Reading
GS-2 CONTEXT : Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana on Monday said fundamental duties in the Constitution are not merely to serve a “pedantic … Continue Reading
. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict-The Hindu-16-08-2022 GS-2 Brief about Conflict : The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflic… Continue Reading
GS-3 SECURITY CONTEXT : Sri Lanka approved the arrival of a Chinese satellite tracking vessel in its southern Chinese funded Hambantota port. … Continue Reading
GS-1 Context : Ministry draws a distinction between sewer cleaning and manual scavenging. What is Manual Scavenger? Manual scavenging is a… Continue Reading
Context : Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry on Friday launched the ‘SMILE75’. AIM : To implement comprehensive rehabilitation of p… Continue Reading
Cocanada -The Hindu-13-08-2022 GS-1 CONTEXT : Gandhi's historical visit to Cocanada. Brief about Cocanada : Cocanada is an old name Kak… Continue Reading
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GS-3 CONTEXT: Overuse of the bags was also resulting in littering and environmental pollution. Introduction According to a report on Plastic Waste … Continue Reading
GS-2 CONTEXT: The apex court may loosen the grip of an abortion law that bars unmarried women from terminating pregnancies up to 24 weeks. MAIN… Continue Reading
GS-2 CONTEXT: With inflation remaining at ‘elevated levels’, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India unanimously deci… Continue Reading
NOTE:-DEAR STUDENT THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR UPSC PRELIM SO JUST KEEP THIS TOPIC READY OF PERSONALITY IN NEWS ) GS-1(Personality In News) CON… Continue Reading
CONTEXT : The multi-talented Kishore Kumar was born on August 4, 1929. A quiz on the maverick genius who regaled audiences with his singing and comic… Continue Reading
GS-3 Context: The Supreme Court has directed the Centre and the GST Council to issue an advisory to States regarding implementation of the system… Continue Reading
GS-2 CONTEXT : Delhi lieutenant governor (LG) Vinai Kumar Saxena recently advised Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal against attending the World Cit… Continue Reading
GS-2 Context: In a first, India will host diplomats and officials from all 15 countries of the United Nations Security Council, including China, Ru… Continue Reading
Pelosi lands in Taiwan, and China slams the U.S.-the Hindu-03-08-2022 Gs 2 CONTEXT : U.S. House Speaker and veteran Democratic politician Nancy… Continue Reading
GS-2 CONTEXT : on July 16, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned youth not to get carried away by the ‘revari culture’, where votes are sought b… Continue Reading
GS-2 CONTEXT : Rallies, public meetings and photo exhibitions marked the 146th birth anniversary celebrations of Pingali Venkayya, the architect o… Continue Reading
GS-3 CONTEXT : India has eased coal import targets for utilities owned by State governments and private companies, according to an internal notice… Continue Reading
GS-3 CONTEXT : With the lumpy skin disease spreading fast among bovines in western and northern Rajasthan, cattle rearers in the State are sufferi… Continue Reading
GS-3 CONTEXT : Barely a week after about 500 pigs were culled in Kerala’s Wayanad district to prevent the spread of African swine fever was de… Continue Reading
GS-3 CONTEXT : In a tragic accident, a MIG21 trainer jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in Rajasthan last Thursday killing both the pilo… Continue Reading
GS-3 CONTEXT : DeepMind, a company based in London and owned by Google, announced this week that it had predicted the threedimensional structure… Continue Reading
GS-3 CONTEXT: Automakers Maruti Suzuki, Toyota, and Honda have launched hybrid electric vehicles in India, offering car buyers more choices in the na… Continue Reading
GS-2 CONTEXT: While Mohammad Zubair of Alt News was arrested for tweeting a still picture from a movie that had some religious context attached to … Continue Reading
GS-1&2 CONTEXT: The International North-South Transport Corridor, which aims to bring Eurasia closer together, is a laudable initiative. PRELIM AND… Continue Reading
GS1 CONTEXT: Centre agrees to procure parboiled rice of two rabi seasons. What is Paraboiled rice? Parboiled rice is a kind of processed r… Continue Reading
(Dear student this topic is related to GS 1 and GS-3 also so try to be ready for main question can be asked in each GS paper. After reading this topic… Continue Reading
INDIA, UAE, AND FRANCE HOLD THEIR MAIDEN TRILATERAL MEETING The objective of the meeting is to explore the potential areas of trilateral cooperation … Continue Reading
NATIONAL MISSION ON EDIBLE OILS–OIL PALM It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme. The funding pattern is 60:40 in the case of general category States… Continue Reading
Tobacco products in India Tobacco use is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases, including cancer, lung disease, cardiovascular disease, and… Continue Reading
Context : India’s eight core sectors’ output growth moderated to 12.7% in June, from 18.1% in May, with all sectors except crude oil registering … Continue Reading
Context : Discovery of 12 carcasses of elephants, some having bullet wounds, in the past two months has brought under sharp focus the spurt in poachin… Continue Reading
GS-lll CONTEXT : On July 29, which is Global Tiger Day (also called International Tiger Day), the world and India can celebrate the recovery of at l… Continue Reading
GS-II CONTEXT : The government does not propose to set up a committee to implement a uniform civil code (UCC), Law Minister Kiren Rijiju told the Ra… Continue Reading
GS-II CONTEXT : The government does not propose to set up a committee to implement a uniform civil code (UCC), Law Minister Kiren Rijiju told the Ra… Continue Reading
GS-lll CONTEXT : The Centre’s proposed amendments to decriminalize specific provisions of the Environment Protection Act (EPA), were to “save la… Continue Reading
GS-II & GS-lll Context : The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the core amendments made to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), which give… Continue Reading
GS-ll Context : India has achieved replacement level fertility, with 31 States and Union Territories reaching a Total Fertility Rate (an average numb… Continue Reading
Context :The Union Food and Public Distribution Ministry has suggested major amendments to the Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act of 2007. … Continue Reading
GS-1 & GS-2 Context : Dairy farmers from States such as Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala held protests here on Wednesday, urging the Cen… Continue Reading
GS-3 Context : Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay Kumar Sood stated earlier this month that the government would soon come up with a new space policy… Continue Reading
GS-ll (Dear student this is related to mains context and but some time conceptual question can be asked in Prelim so for prelim do those part which a… Continue Reading
Context: The bikers will carry the flags and reach the Kargil War Memorial on July 26 on the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas. PRELIM: An armed … Continue Reading
Context : Ahead of the 175th birth anniversary fete of the legendary artist Raja Ravi Varma, who revolutionized Indian aesthetics and redefined art p… Continue Reading
Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took to Twitter to ask Indians to hoist or display the National Flag at their homes from August 13 to … Continue Reading
Ali Akbar Khan was the sarod maestro of India. He was a virtuoso of Hindustani Classical music and has performed with contemporaries like Pandit Ravi … Continue Reading
The Delhi government will begin coaching classes for children from financially poor backgrounds under the Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Vikas Yojana … Continue Reading
India came one step closer to bringing back the world’s fastest animal in the country with an agreement signed in Delhi on Wednesday between the Uni… Continue Reading
-Location: This wildlife sanctuary is located in Wayanad, Kerala. -It is the second largest wildlife sanctuary in Kerala, an integral part of the Nil… Continue Reading
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act is an Indian law aimed at preventing unlawful activities associations in India. Its main objective was to make po… Continue Reading
State- Karnataka River- a confluence of river Kaveri with its tributaries Hemavati and Lakshmana Tirtha District- Mandya.… Continue Reading
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday offered ‘Bagina’ (a traditional thanksgiving, expressing happiness that dams in the state are full to… Continue Reading
The Delhi High Court has permitted minor rape victims to terminate their 26weeks pregnancy, saying the mental and physical trauma they would have to u… Continue Reading
The Delhi government on Tuesday said that under Mission Buniyaad, held between April and June, students of government and Municipal Corporation of Del… Continue Reading
Eminent singer and guitarist Bhupinder Singh, who gave voice to a wounded heart for years, passed away in Mumbai on Monday evening because of multiple… Continue Reading
On July 14, the Staff level talks between Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)concluded for the seventh and eighth review under Extended… Continue Reading
Article 29 in The Constitution Of India 1949 29. Protection of interests of minorities (1) Any section of the citizens residing in the territory… Continue Reading
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju introduced the Family Courts (Amendment) Bill in order to give statutory cover to the Family Courts operating in Himac… Continue Reading
The Gyanvapi Mosque is located in Banaras, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was constructed by Aurangzeb in 1669 upon demolition of an older Shiva temple. Th… Continue Reading
The Supreme Court on Monday extended the time for completion of the special audit of 25 years of accounts of Shree Padmanabhaswamy temple and its trus… Continue Reading
Bailable vs Non-Bailable Bail is governed by provisions in the CrPC. Offenses are categorized as bailable and non-bailable. Under Section 436, bail i… Continue Reading
Future quantum computers might be able to break the cryptographic keys that protect everything. Now, the National Institute of Standards and Technolog… Continue Reading
Green pit viper may not be more lethal than Russell’s viper, the sawscaled viper, the spectacled cobra or the common krait. Most of the snakebite c… Continue Reading
In what appears to be the adoption of cow politics by a Congress government, the Bhupesh Baghelled administration in Chhattisgarh has approved the pro… Continue Reading
Chennai’s Napier Bridge painted like a chessboard ahead of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad to be held in Mamallapuram near the city from July 28. In… Continue Reading
The accord completes 50 years today. There was and remains a sense that India had squandered a great military victory. But the evidence suggests that … Continue Reading
The Union Cabinet approved the Agnipath scheme for recruitment to the armed forces.[5] Candidates recruited under the scheme will serve for four yea… Continue Reading
The Union Cabinet approved the Agnipath scheme for recruitment to the armed forces.[5] Candidates recruited under the scheme will serve for four yea… Continue Reading
Iran and Belarus are likely to be the two newest additions to the China and Russia-backed Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) grouping, officials … Continue Reading
The Union Cabinet approved the Agnipath scheme for recruitment to the armed forces.[5] Candidates recruited under the scheme will serve for four yea… Continue Reading
Santal tribespeople at Pahadpur dancing to celebrate Droupadi Murmu's nomination by the NDA as its Presidential candidate; Murmu having lunch with Odi… Continue Reading
The first known labconfirmed case of monkeypox in India has been reported in a 35year old man in Kerala, who reached the State capital three days ago … Continue Reading
The first known labconfirmed case of monkeypox in India has been reported in a 35year old man in Kerala, who reached the State capital three days ago … Continue Reading
The first known labconfirmed case of monkeypox in India has been reported in a 35year old man in Kerala, who reached the State capital three days ago … Continue Reading
The first known labconfirmed case of monkeypox in India has been reported in a 35year old man in Kerala, who reached the State capital three days ago … Continue Reading
Inflation and a widening trade deficit as ‘twin challenges’ for the economy, the Ministry, however, emphasised that economic activity in the count… Continue Reading
Inflation and a widening trade deficit as ‘twin challenges’ for the economy, the Ministry, however, emphasised that economic activity in the count… Continue Reading
Genomics for All: International Open Science Genomics Projects and Capacity Building in the Developing World In-depth: Genomics is the study of … Continue Reading
China’s overall export performance in June showed a recovery, up 13.2%, with total trade up 14.3% in June India’s biggest imports last year were … Continue Reading
Government of India Act of 1919 On August 20, 1917, the British Government declared, for the first time, that its objective was the gradual introduct… Continue Reading
Government of India Act of 1935 The Act marked a second milestone towards a completely responsible government in India. It was a lengthy and detailed… Continue Reading
Giant Leap Towards IAS!!!!!! Learn from Experts. V2V IAS organizing a Seminar on 20th July at 3pm. Seminar is open for all. Features of Seminar: … Continue Reading
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remarks on Tuesday reflect authorities’ recognition that any let-up in the fight against inflation risks und… Continue Reading
India ranks 135 among a total of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index 2022 and is the worst performer in the world in the “health and surviv… Continue Reading
Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change will be organizing “Hariyali Mahotsav” on 8th July, 2022 at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi in the s… Continue Reading
Nada Bet, a small slice of land jutting into a sprawling lake, where the Seema Darshan is held. It is an opportunity for travelers to see the workings… Continue Reading
The World Population Prospects 2022 has projected that India will surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023, while the global popul… Continue Reading
The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) announced five guidelines to prevent unfair trade practices and to protect consumer interests regardi… Continue Reading
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday unveiled the national emblem atop the new Parliament building in a special ceremony attended by Lok Sabha Speak… Continue Reading
India will soon launch an ambitious ‘Deep Ocean Mission’ that envisages the exploration of minerals, energy and marine diversity of the underwater… Continue Reading
Arogya Sanjeevani is a standardised health insurance policy designed by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority. Every general insurance o… Continue Reading
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health’s report on the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and its management. In Detail: The committee has stre… Continue Reading
Kala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a tropical disease characterised by irregular fever, weight loss, anaemia and swelling of the spleen and l… Continue Reading
Context: The Chairman, National Health Authority and CEO of Ayushman Bharat has announced that the National Digital Health Mission will soon be rea… Continue Reading
In the Third India-U.S. 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue that took place in Delhi recently, the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) for Geo-Spatia… Continue Reading
Stating that it is intended to camouflage the illegal occupation of the region by Islamabad, India slammed Pakistan for its attempt to accord provinci… Continue Reading
India – U.S.A relations. Trajectory of India- U.S.A relations under President Trump: With the victory of Mr. Trump in the U.S. presidential el… Continue Reading
NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman asserted that any tariff protection to promote local manufacturing in India will come with an in-built sunset clause. Note… Continue Reading
The Election Commission (EC) revoked the status of a Congress leader as a star campaigner for the party in the ongoing State Assembly by-polls. The r… Continue Reading
Public Affairs Centre (PAC): The Public Affairs Centre (PAC) is a not-for-profit research think tank situated in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It works at i… Continue Reading
The Fifteenth Finance Commission has finalised its report for fund devolution from the Centre to States for the five years from 2021-22 to 2025-26. … Continue Reading
Owing to a provision in the Code on Wages, those indulging in sexual harassment of any form could run the risk of losing out on bonus dues from their … Continue Reading
A Division Bench has directed the J&K administration to regulate the extraction of minor minerals from water bodies and set up an expert committee to … Continue Reading
Supreme Court Judgement: Justice Kant wrote: “Society has a right to lead a peaceful and fearless life, without free-roaming criminals creating h… Continue Reading
Supreme Court Judgement: The intention to abet suicide cannot be assumed and it needs to be backed by solid, visible proof. A three-judge Bench … Continue Reading
Witch-hunting: Witch-hunting involves the branding of victims, especially women as witches, where they are accused of possessing supernatural power… Continue Reading
Official Languages Act 1963: There was widespread resistance to the imposition of Hindi on non-native speakers, especially in Tamil Nadu. This led… Continue Reading
State of India’s continental strategy India is a country that is traditionally obsessed with a continental approach to war and peace. However, I… Continue Reading
India’s fiscal deficit soared to 109% of the Budget target in just the first five months of the year (2020-21), with revenues remaining muted. Th… Continue Reading
Crime in India report 2019 has been published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Crime against women: From 2018, the rate of crime aga… Continue Reading
The move to include Australia would mark a major shift for India’s Indo-Pacific plans. Inclusion of Australia would make it the first time since 20… Continue Reading
The conflict can be traced back to the pre-Soviet era when the region was at the meeting point of the Ottoman, Russian and Persian empires. Once Azer… Continue Reading
The Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP), 2020: The new Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP), 2020 has been released. The draft was finalised by a co… Continue Reading
Land Acquisition Judgement March 2020: In March 2020, a Constitution Bench, led by Justice Arun Mishra gave out a judgement on Section 24 on land a… Continue Reading
Gs2- IR Territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region History : 1920: Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous R… Continue Reading
Sandalwood Spike Disease (SSD): The disease is caused by phytoplasma (bacterial parasites of plant tissues) which are transmitted by insect vectors… Continue Reading
The Chief Minister of Punjab has appealed to farmers not to burn crop residue because the practice could make the situation worse helping COVID-19 to … Continue Reading
The call for a boycott of the elections to the district autonomous councils in Ladakh has been withdrawn in the wake of the lurking danger on the Chin… Continue Reading
The Union Government has constituted the National Medical Commission (NMC). With this, the decades-old institution of the Medical Council of India (MC… Continue Reading
Sri Lankan Prime Minister has promised Sri Lanka’s northern fisher leaders that he would take up their concern over “trespassing Indian trawlers�… Continue Reading
Out of the USD 20 billion in loans issued by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), about $6 billion has gone to India. India is one of t… Continue Reading
The affidavit, filed by the government before the tribunal said the United National Liberation Front of West of South East Asia (UNLFWSEA), had taken … Continue Reading
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has brought out a document titled the ‘Technology Vision for Cyber Security for Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs) 2020… Continue Reading
The Centre has permitted five states to borrow an additional Rs.9,913 crore through open market borrowings to meet expenditure requirements amid falli… Continue Reading
Corporates in India have got three more months of relief from the invocation of insolvency and bankruptcy (IBC) proceedings by lenders. Details: … Continue Reading
Pakistan has moved to give full provincial status to the Gilgit-Baltistan region through an election. The region earlier was known as the “Northern … Continue Reading
China has said that there are enormous divisions and a lack of consensus on taking forward the stalled reforms of the United Nations Security Council … Continue Reading
Abraham Accords: It is the first Arab-Israeli peace deal in 26 years. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have agreed to establish full diplomati… Continue Reading
Toxins in water, produced by cyanobacteria (cyanobacterial neurotoxins) killed more than 300 elephants in Botswana this year. Cyanobacteria Cyanob… Continue Reading
The bonds qualify as tier II capital of the bank. The bonds have a face value of Rs.10 lakh each, bearing a coupon rate of 6.24% per annum payable an… Continue Reading
The Lok Sabha passed the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020. The government had proposed amendments to the Foreign Contribution… Continue Reading
The Rajya Sabha passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill (IBC), 2020. The Bill replaces an Ordinance passed in June 2020. … Continue Reading
Two of the three agriculture-related legislation aimed at liberalising the farm sector have been passed by the Rajya Sabha, these legislations were ea… Continue Reading
The $1 billion World Bank loan comes with a condition of “universal eligibility” in procurements. Background: In April 2020 the World Bank�… Continue Reading
The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has told the Supreme Court to make its code of ethics against airing malicious, biased and regressive content … Continue Reading
Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) FCRA regulates foreign donations and ensures that such contributions do not adversely affect the internal … Continue Reading
The Department of Telecom has directed all telecom service providers in the country to carry out a special audit of their networks by an external agen… Continue Reading
The U.S. is keen that India sign the last foundational agreement, Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-Spatial Cooperation (BECA), at the … Continue Reading
What is Queen’s Counsel? Queen’s Counsel is a barrister or advocate, appointed Counsel to the UK Crown on the recommendation of the Lord Chance… Continue Reading
According to a Pakistani media report, Pakistan has decided to elevate the status of Gilgit-Baltistan to that of a full-fledged province with all cons… Continue Reading
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPWD) Act, 2016 was passed by the Indian Parliament to fulfill its obligation to the United Nations Conventio… Continue Reading
Inter-State Migrant Workmen (ISMW) Act, 1979: The ISMW Act came into force four decades ago. It is meant to protect vulnerable workers who leave t… Continue Reading
The government’s decision to suspend MPLADS funds for two years has evoked mixed reactions. Arguments in favour of MPLADS scheme: Wrong notion… Continue Reading
The National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2020, proposes to clearly spell out the functions of the Council of Ministers and the Lieute… Continue Reading
A part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister has suggested that India should look at selling enemy properties valued at o… Continue Reading
In the current fiscal year (2020-21), States are looking at a staggering Rs.2.35 lakh crore GST revenue shortfall.… Continue Reading
Amendments have been made to the Essential Commodities Act, new laws have been framed to bypass the State APMC Acts and to facilitate contract farming… Continue Reading
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the top diplomats of the UAE and Bahrain are to sign the deals on normalising relations. They have ag… Continue Reading
The Centre has opposed before the Delhi High Court, a petition seeking recognition of same-sex marriages. Details: The Centre argued that the In… Continue Reading
Unemployment problem in India: Employment concern and associated issues: Notably, the employment-intensive sectors like construction (–50%), t… Continue Reading
As per the data provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR) National Cancer… Continue Reading
The monsoon session of Parliament, delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to begin with strict safety protocols in place. Up to 45 Bills will… Continue Reading
The Supreme Court, in an order on 31st August 2020 had directed the removal of 48,000 slums along the railway tracks in the national capital within th… Continue Reading
The DRDO conducted a flight test of the hypersonic technology demonstrator vehicle (HSTDV) off Odisha’s coast. This HSTDV was able to fly at a hy… Continue Reading
The brain size and shape differ across ages, and across regions and ethnicities, and even within a population. While some countries have their own … Continue Reading
he licences of 13 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been suspended so far this year under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), 2… Continue Reading
A report brought out by the World Wildlife Fund notes that on average, wildlife populations dropped by 68% between 1970 and 2016. Latin America and… Continue Reading
Dhrupad music is of temple origin. Dhrupad is the oldest surviving classical style of Hindustani vocal music. Although Dhrupad consolidated its … Continue Reading
The Environment Ministry has rejected a plea from the Ministry of Mines for exemption from forest penalty The Ministry of Mines has requested an ex… Continue Reading
Five-point course of action: 1. Following the consensus between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping to not allow differences to b… Continue Reading
“Functioning of the Virtual Courts/Courts Proceedings through Video-Conferencing”.- REPORT Recommendations: The panel has argued that the tr… Continue Reading
PM CARES Fund has received an exemption from FCRA although it does not seem to meet the precondition of being a body established and owned by the gove… Continue Reading
The Supreme Court has prioritised the need to expeditiously complete trial in over 4,000 criminal cases, from corruption to money laundering, pending … Continue Reading
The Supreme Court has reached out to Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal to act as amicus curiae and assist it with legal questions raised in a contempt c… Continue Reading
Lok Sabha Speaker has said that if there is a provision for the post of Deputy Speaker in the Lok Sabha, then it was only obvious that there should be… Continue Reading
Israel is in talks with India and China on trade agreements and hopes that border tensions between the two countries would be sorted out peacefully. … Continue Reading
A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court has referred a group of petitions challenging the Maratha reservation law to a Constitution Bench. Chief Just… Continue Reading
India and Japan signed an Agreement between the two countries concerning the Reciprocal Provision of Supplies and Services between the Armed Forces of… Continue Reading
India Post launches Five Star Villages Scheme to ensure 100% rural coverage of postal schemes. The schemes covered under the Five Star scheme inclu… Continue Reading
PM to inaugurate 1.75 lakh houses built under PMAY-G in Madhya Pradesh. Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin completes three years. About the … Continue Reading
Union Minister of State for Shipping launches ‘SAROD-Ports’ (Society for Affordable Redressal of Disputes – Ports). Objectives of SAROD-Por… Continue Reading
A report on the journey of the NSTEDB in catalyzing innovation, entrepreneurship, and incubation was launched by the Secretary, Department of Science … Continue Reading
The Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme was launched in 2015 in 500 cities across India covering about 60% of the ur… Continue Reading
FICCI has urged bold and decisive action from the government to stimulate demand for India to return to a positive growth trajectory, following a 23.9… Continue Reading
India is the third-largest spender on defence around the world. A series of measures have been taken since 2014 to boost exports, including simplif… Continue Reading
Bt Cotton: It is a genetically modified cotton. It contains the pesticide gene from bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). It has now been grown in the… Continue Reading
The Election Commission of India has for a while now been toying with the idea of further digitising the electoral infrastructure of the country. In f… Continue Reading
Recently, Israel and the UAE agreed to a historic deal normalising relations and are scheduled to sign it at a White House ceremony in September 2020.… Continue Reading
NSO released the findings of the survey on household social consumption related to education, as part of the NSO’s 75th round, conducted from July 2… Continue Reading
The ‘Health in India’ report by the National Statistical Organisation (NSO) has been published. The report is based on the 75th round of the Na… Continue Reading
The Supreme Court has ordered the Centre to adhere to a Union Road Ministry circular of March 2018. The circular had advised against building full-… Continue Reading
Money as a factor in elections: 1. The issue of funding political parties and elections. 2. Money has become an important factor deciding the winn… Continue Reading
Acc. to CARE rating agency, the pandemic-stricken states have borrowed a whopping Rs.2.97 lakh crore so far this financial year, which is as much as 5… Continue Reading
Fitch Ratings projected the global GDP to contract 4.4% for 2020-21 but revised upwards China’s growth estimate to 2.7% for 2020. Fitch has slash… Continue Reading
There are fresh tensions between India and China on the south bank of Pangong Tso (lake). Hours after the Chinese Army claimed that Indian troops o… Continue Reading
Gross under-investment: The 2014 National Youth Policy (NYP) defines youth as persons between 15 and 29 years. According to this definition, the yo… Continue Reading
A Government Security (G-Sec) is a tradeable instrument issued by the Central Government or the State Governments. It acknowledges the Government’s … Continue Reading
The RBI has specified five financial ratios and sector-specific thresholds for resolution of COVID-19 related stressed assets in 26 sectors, including… Continue Reading
The Prime Minister asserted that the government’s intervention in the education policy should be minimal. He said that the education policy and t… Continue Reading
Kesavananda Bharati was the chief pontiff of the Edneer Mutt, a monastic religious institution located in Kasaragod district, Kerala. Bharati had some… Continue Reading
The United Nations is steering an initiative called the Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond, to articulate a comprehensive fin… Continue Reading
The PM laid out a vision of making India a manufacturing hub at the heart of global supply chains. The pitch comes in the backdrop of the governmen… Continue Reading
Stress in the power sector: Surplus capacity: Several states have installed capacity that is far in excess of actual requirements. Despite havi… Continue Reading
The Indian Council for Historical research (ICHR) has constituted a three-member committee to review the entries in the book Dictionary of Martyrs: In… Continue Reading
Recent scientific studies point to a connection between the end of the Green Sahara and this mega-drought. As the Sahara started losing its vegetat… Continue Reading
In the emerging security paradigm, the CDS has emphasized the need to look beyond India’s border security and the need to also focus on the strategi… Continue Reading
Typhoon Maysak had made landfall in North Korea and is said to have caused large scale destruction and fatalities. A typhoon is a tropical cyclone … Continue Reading
Ease of Doing Business (EODB) is a joint initiative by the DPIIT and the World Bank to improve the overall business environment in the States. Thes… Continue Reading
The Road Transport and Highways Minister speaking at the annual session of the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA) have ask… Continue Reading
The U.S. administration has announced sanctions, including asset freezes and visa bans against two officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC)… Continue Reading
Attributing the shortfall in GST collections to disruptions due to Covid-19, the Finance Minister said the economy is facing an "Act-of-God"-like situ… Continue Reading
The Indian government has banned 59 + 118 China-based apps including one of the most popular mobile games PUBG Mobile. It was banned under section … Continue Reading
City Gas Distribution (CGD) entities are likely to save on penalties for work delays triggered by the pandemic. The fundamental norm of the law of … Continue Reading
The altered guidelines include funding to segments including start-ups and agriculture. Bank finance of up to Rs.50 crore to start-ups, loans to fa… Continue Reading
UN human rights experts have told China, a new security law for Hong Kong infringes on certain fundamental rights and voiced concerns that it could be… Continue Reading
The ‘State of the Young Child’ in India report was launched by Mr. M. VENKAIAH NAIDU Two indices have been released as a part of the ‘State o… Continue Reading
The deletion of ‘Question Hour’ provision in the forthcoming monsoon session of the Parliament. The Unstarred Questions will continue to be rec… Continue Reading
A group of Special Rapporteurs to the United Nations has written to the Centre expressing concern over the proposed Environment Impact Assessment (EIA… Continue Reading
Indian Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat has said that India has a strategy prepared to fight off the dual-threat posed by neighbours Pakista… Continue Reading
News: The Lok Sabha Secretariat has released the schedule for the monsoon Parliament session. In view of the pandemic and a truncated Monsoon Ses… Continue Reading
India has been ranked 48th in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2020 as per the GII 2020 Report jointly published by Cornell, INSEAD and World Intelle… Continue Reading
3rd Annual Leadership Summit of the USISPF. The theme of the 5-day Summit is “US-India Navigating New Challenges”. Details: The US-India … Continue Reading
The Union Cabinet approved Mission Karmayogi for civil servants across India to help them meet the challenges of society. Mission Karmayogi: Mis… Continue Reading
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said civil rights lawyer Prashant Bhushan’s conviction for criminal contempt of court by the Supreme C… Continue Reading
Turkey favours a dialogue with rival Greece that would lead to the fair sharing of resources in the eastern Mediterranean, where the two countries are… Continue Reading
Gaza’s Hamas rulers said that they have reached an agreement through international mediators to end the latest round of cross-border violence with I… Continue Reading
The number of suicide cases and accidental deaths registered an increase across the country last year from the 2018 figures. The suicide rate in citi… Continue Reading
The Privy Purse was used as a conciliatory move to get the princely state rulers to surrender their sovereignty to the Indian union. As defined from … Continue Reading
The Gopalakrishnan Committee: The committee was set up in 2019 and is referred to as the Expert Committee on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework… Continue Reading
The data released by the National Statistical Office, India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has suffered its steepest contraction on record in the Ap… Continue Reading
A rare inscription dating back to the Renati Chola era has been unearthed in a remote village of Kadapa district in Andhra Pradesh. Renati Cholas: … Continue Reading
A data released by the National Statistical Office(NSO), the GDP of India has shrunk by a record 23.9% in the April to June 2020 quarter in comparison… Continue Reading
Flaws in the current GST system: The current design and implementation of the GST system have failed to deliver on the promise of enhanced economic… Continue Reading
India’s fiscal deficit in the four months to end July 2020 stood at 103.1% of the budgeted target for FY21. Net tax receipts were Rs.2.03 trillio… Continue Reading
Environment Performance Index: India secured the 168th rank out of 180 countries in the 12th edition of the biennial Environment Performance Index … Continue Reading
In August 2020, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) had approved Green term ahead market (GTAM) contracts on the Indian Energy Exchan… Continue Reading
Australia-India-Japan Ministers’ meeting on Supply Chains Resilience held. Details: The Ministers reaffirmed their determination to take a lea… Continue Reading
The discovery was made by a team of astronomers led by Dr Kanak Saha from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) Pune. … Continue Reading
In the letter, Pakistan’s Ambassador sought to portray Pakistan as a victim of cross-border terrorism. It was claimed that Pakistan is responsible … Continue Reading
Inclusive Education: Inclusion is a theme of the Policy beyond technology as well. As per the Ministry, under NEP, efforts will be made to incenti… Continue Reading
The United States has blacklisted 24 Chinese companies. The U.S. Commerce Department said the 24 companies played a role in helping the Chinese mil… Continue Reading
Pulikkali, or tiger dance will go online on the fourth day of Onam. Pulikkali: Pulikkali, or tiger dance, is a colourful part of Onam celebratio… Continue Reading
India will approach the UN Security Council President to bring to his notice a series of false claims levelled by Pakistan on terrorism, in one of the… Continue Reading
In India, while self-interest and national glory dominate, concern for distributive justice is rare. Given the compulsion to advance our self-inter… Continue Reading
In an agreement brokered by the U.S., Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to establish full diplomatic relations. Details: For… Continue Reading
Public health groups, along with doctors and economists, have urged the GST Council to increase compensation cess on all tobacco products. Pros: … Continue Reading
China has launched the first of the four advanced naval warships it is building for Pakistan. Pakistan had signed a contract with the China Shipbui… Continue Reading
Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) It is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre… Continue Reading
The Government of India, (Government of Maharashtra), Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) signed a lo… Continue Reading
The Delimitation Commission is a high-level body set up by an act of Parliament to carry out the delimitation process, that is, fixing limits or bound… Continue Reading
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered the conversion of the Kariye Museum into a mosque. It was originally converted into the Kariye M… Continue Reading
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in his first address, has declared his intention to repeal the landmark 19th Amendment to the Constitution, a… Continue Reading
Punjab’s viewpoint on the issue of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, given Punjab’s critical groundwater situation. Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) … Continue Reading
Aarogya Setu introduces ‘Open API Service’. This is a novel feature in the app to help people, businesses and the economy to return to normalcy… Continue Reading
NEWS: Utilization of excess sugarcane for ethanol production to improve the viability of the sugar industry. Details: The government has taken … Continue Reading
The Budget Speech of 2020 proposed the setting up of a task force to look into the issue of age of a girl entering motherhood to help lower maternal m… Continue Reading
Indore wins cleanest city title again For the fourth year in a row, Indore has been ranked the cleanest city in the country, according to the Swach… Continue Reading
Russia has recently announced the world’s first vaccine to combat COVID-19, named Sputnik V. The vaccine is based on the principle of using adeno… Continue Reading
The World Bank had, previously in May 2020, projected that the Indian economy would contract by 3.2% in the current fiscal year and would only rebound… Continue Reading
National Recruitment Agency (NRA) was created for conducting a Common Eligibility Test (CET) for various government jobs. Initially, three of the o… Continue Reading
According to the Digital Quality of Life Report, India ranks among the lowest in the world in terms of Internet quality. India occupies 79th pla… Continue Reading
Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2020 IIT- Madras has topped the ARIIA 2020 under the ‘Best Centrally Funded Insti… Continue Reading
Gs2- Education- New educational policy-Issue of autonomy in NEP Arguments in favour of the provision: The concerns of over-centralisation, leadi… Continue Reading
NEWS: Union Tribal Affairs Minister to launch Swasthya Portal. About the Swasthya Portal: The online portal will act as a one-stop solution p… Continue Reading
NEWS: Defence Minister launches indigenisation portal SRIJAN. About SRIJAN: SRIJAN is the Ministry of Defence’s portal which acts as a one-… Continue Reading
NEWS: Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter has captured the Moon images of “Sarabhai” Crater – ISRO About Sarabhai Crater: Named after eminent Indian sc… Continue Reading
NEWS: Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Rajesh Verma released the “Report of the Committee on Business Responsibility Reporting (BRR)” from … Continue Reading
NEWS: The Foundation for Reproductive Health Services India (FRHSI) indicated a severe shortage of medical abortion (MA) drugs in five out of the s… Continue Reading
GS2- IR - The need for a new foreign policy roadmap in India Reasons 1.Relations with neighbours are under strain 2.We are losing the strategic e… Continue Reading
GS3- Environmental Impact Assessment- Issues with ignoring environmental concerns. Issues with draft EIA : UAPA usage upon criticism MAINS QUEST… Continue Reading
Gs3- Conservation- Issues with Project tiger Does india emphasize more on tiger conservation at the cost of others? Prelims info : 1) Global … Continue Reading
NEWS: As a part of Israel-India cooperation to fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, AIIMS, Delhi, has received state-of-the-art AI-based technologi… Continue Reading
NEWS: Prakash Javadekar, MoEFCC launched the booklet on “Best practices of Human-Elephant Conflict Management in India” to strengthen coexistence… Continue Reading
NEWS: 1.5 lakh tele-consultations completed through ‘eSanjeevani’ and ‘eSanjeevaniOPD’. About the National Teleconsultation Service: … Continue Reading
NEWS: The Supreme Court has expanded a Hindu woman’s right to be a joint legal heir and inherit ancestral property on terms equal to male heirs. … Continue Reading
Atma Nirbhar Week celebration (Atmanirbharta Saptah) between August 7-14, 2020 of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and to boost Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhi… Continue Reading
NEWS: The Defence Ministry announced a list of 101 items that it will stop importing. Items included in the negative list The items mentioned in … Continue Reading
NEWS: M.K. Narayanan, a former National Security Adviser, analyzes India’s approach to isolate China as a countermeasure to China’s military aggr… Continue Reading
Balance of Payments: The balance of payments (BOP) is a statement of all transactions made between entities in one country and the rest of the worl… Continue Reading
NEWS: According to official data, the nationwide lockdown had a significant negative impact on inpatient care utilisation under the Pradhan Mantri … Continue Reading
NEWS The release of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation due to the States for the financial year 2019-20. Compensation cess fund A comp… Continue Reading
What is Loya Jirga? A loya jirga is a special type of jirga, or legal assembly, in Pashtunwali, the traditional code of laws of the Pashtun people.… Continue Reading
Issues with the concept of contempt: The C-O-C is a centuries-old British law which was abolished in 2013, this was mainly to hide judicial corrupt… Continue Reading
NEWS: India has refused a request by Pakistan to hold a meeting on issues around the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) . DETAILS: According to the terms o… Continue Reading
Context: PM to launch a financing facility under Agriculture Infrastructure Fund and release benefits under PM-KISAN. Details: The Union Cabi… Continue Reading
E-Sanjeevani is a platform-independent, browser-based application facilitating both doctor-to-doctor and patient-to-doctor tele-consultations. NEWS… Continue Reading
NEWS: Landslide in Idukki district of Kerala has claimed 22 lives thus far and rendered several families homeless. DETAILS: Heavy rainfall in Kera… Continue Reading
Quick Tips: Have hot/warm water entire day .… Continue Reading
India-European Union Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation renewed for next five years (2020-2025) In the last 5 years, 73 joint re… Continue Reading
Context: MoCA set up Investment Clearance Cell for Assistance & Clearance of Proposals in Aviation Sector; Headed by Amber Dubey. Details: *The … Continue Reading
Details: Indian Navy hold PASSEX with World’s largest aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in Indian Ocean Region. Context: *Indian naval ships conduct… Continue Reading
Context: Prakash Javadekar hails KURMA mobile app as unique tool for conservation of Indian Turtles. Details: *Union Minister of Environment, Fo… Continue Reading
Context:PM SVANidhi app launched to provide micro-credit facility for street vendors at their door steps. Details: *A mobile application of PM S… Continue Reading
Context: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attended 3rd G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting virtually. Details: *Union Mi… Continue Reading
Context: UN’s Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: India Record Largest Reduction in Number of People Living in Poverty. Details: *273 milli… Continue Reading
Context: Centre’s fiscal deficit to increase to 7.6% & India’s GDP to contract by 5.3% in FY21: India Ratings and Research’s Report. Details:… Continue Reading
Context: Collaborative citizen science initiative provides database, helps identify species and lists rescue centres. Details: *The application,… Continue Reading
Context: Dharmendra Pradhan & Dan Brouillette co-chaired 2nd Meeting of India-US Strategic Energy Partnership virtually. Details: * Union Mini… Continue Reading
Context:Why is India out of the Chabahar rail project? Details: *State-owned Ircon International Limited was associated with the rail project ev… Continue Reading
Context:India Established Individual Bilateral ‘Air Bubbles’ with France, Germany and US. Details: *India has established individual bilater… Continue Reading
Context:ICRA projects Indian economy to contract 9.5% in 2020-’21, cites rising coronavirus cases, lockdown. Details: *Rating agency ICRA on T… Continue Reading
Context: Customs unravels hawala trail in Kerala gold smuggling case. Details: *The Customs Department on Friday moved to track down the network… Continue Reading
Context: Details: *The University Grants Commission’s guidelines of July 6, 2020 on conducting final-year examinations for university students… Continue Reading
Context:India’s CERT and Israel’s INCD inked MoU to expand cooperation in cyber security. Details: *The COVID-19 pandemic has not only impac… Continue Reading
Context:NTPC signs MoU with NIIF to Explore Business Opportunities in Renewable Energy in India. Details: *NTPC Ltd has recently entered into a… Continue Reading
Context:NTPC signs MoU with NIIF to Explore Business Opportunities in Renewable Energy in India. Details: *NTPC Ltd has recently entered into a… Continue Reading
Context:NTPC signs MoU with NIIF to Explore Business Opportunities in Renewable Energy in India. Details: *NTPC Ltd has recently entered into a… Continue Reading
NITI Aayog presented India’s 2nd Voluntary National Review at UN’s High-Level Political Forum; held virtually * NITI Aayog presented India’s … Continue Reading
Context:NSDC Collaborates with Microsoft India to Provide Digital Skills to Indian Yout. Details: * The National Skill Development Corporation (… Continue Reading
Context: US formally notified UN of its Decision to Withdraw from WHO,Serves Notice Period till July 6, 2021. Details: *The United States has fo… Continue Reading
Context: Bharat Dynamics Limited signs LAToT of Akash Missile Weapon System with DRDO. Details: *Bharat Dynamics Limited signed Licence Agreeme… Continue Reading
Context: Maharashtra CM, Uddhav Thackeray E-Inaugurates NM1, Yotta Data Centre Near Mumbai World’s 2nd Largest & Asia’s Largest Data Centre. De… Continue Reading
Context: Prakash Javadekar Participated in 4th edition of the Ministerial on Climate Action, held virtually. Details: *The fourth edition of the… Continue Reading
Context: SBM Bank India Partnered with Mastercard to facilitate Real-time domestic & cross-border payments & remittances through ‘Mastercard Send’… Continue Reading
Context: India-Afghanistan inked 5 MoUs for development of educational infrastructure in Afghanistan. Details: *The five memorandums of understa… Continue Reading
Context: DRDO to establish a research cell at IIT-H to meet the future defence technological requirements . Details: *Defence Research and Devel… Continue Reading
Context: Indian Railways Sets up Solar Plant in Bina, MP & Becomes the 1st Organization in the World to Directly Supply Power to Railway Overhead Line… Continue Reading
Context: Amid demand surge, 1.4 lakh families have reached annual MGNREGA work limit. Details: * 1.4 lakh poor rural households have already com… Continue Reading
Context: Amid demand surge, 1.4 lakh families have reached annual MGNREGA work limit. Details: * 1.4 lakh poor rural households have already com… Continue Reading
Context:President Ram Nath Kovind Inaugurates Dharma Chakra Day 2020 Celebrations On July 4. Details: *July 4 , 2020, President of India Shri Ra… Continue Reading
Context:NLC, Coal India to form 50:50 JV to develop solar and thermal power assets. Details: *Government-owned mining majors NLC India Ltd and C… Continue Reading
Context:M.V Asiatic Moon : A New Shipping Service b/w Kolkata Port & Chattogram Begins to Ease Indo-Bangla Trade. Details: * A new shipping serv… Continue Reading
Context:Tourism Sector Could Lose 1.2 Trillion USD Due To Covid Pandemic: UNCTAD Report. Details: *The United Nations Conference on Trade and De… Continue Reading
Context:Record 53.6 mt of E-waste Dumped Globally in 2019; China Tops: UN Global E-waste Monitor 2020 Report. Details: *In accordance with “Th… Continue Reading
Context:Record 53.6 mt of E-waste Dumped Globally in 2019; China Tops: UN Global E-waste Monitor 2020 Report. Details: *In accordance with “Th… Continue Reading
Context:In accordance with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, India’s external debt stood at USD558.5 billion in March 2020, an increase of USD15… Continue Reading
Context:India to accept and abide international tribunal’s ruling. Details: *The 'Enrica Lexie' Incident *The arbitral proceedings were ins… Continue Reading
Context:77.9% Russians Grant Putin Right to Extend His Rule Until 2036. Details: *Russians opened the door to Vladimir Putin staying in power un… Continue Reading
Context:Union Power Minister R. Singh addresses a virtual conference with Power Ministers of States and UTs on July 3, 2020. Details: *Union Pow… Continue Reading
Context:The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has granted approval to Bharat Biotech to conduct human clinical trials for ‘Covaxin… Continue Reading
Context: Details: * The Defence Acquisition Council , chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on Thursday approved deals worth Rs38,900 crore… Continue Reading
Context: Bid to turn Shivalik forest into tiger reserve. Details: *The Saharanpur Divisional Commissioner has sent a proposal to the State gover… Continue Reading
Context:The Commerce Ministry’s provisional figures for the core sector for May 2020. Details: *Output in the eight core industries suffered a… Continue Reading
Context:India will be back in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for a two-year term beginning January 1, 2021 at a critical time in the histo… Continue Reading
Context: Committee for reform in criminal law headed by Ranbir Singh to start online consultation from July 4, 2020: MHA. Details: *The Ministry… Continue Reading
Context: Indian marine fish landings rose 2.1% to 3.56mt in 2019: CMFRI,Tamil Nadu tops . Details: *In accordance with the report “Annual Mari… Continue Reading
Context:India, Japan Hold PASSEX Naval Exercise to Promote Understanding in Indian Ocean. Details: *In order to promote mutual understanding, In… Continue Reading
Context:PM announced extension of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana till November, 2020. Details: *PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced th… Continue Reading
Context: The UNFPA has released State of the World Population 2020 report. Details: *The Preference for sons and gender-biased sex selection ha… Continue Reading
Context:The 600 MW Kholongchhu project is one of four additional projects agreed to in 2008. Details: *The project’s “Concession agreement,�… Continue Reading
Context: Russia begins discreet moves to defuse India-China tension. Details: *Russian diplomatic sources say that Moscow has “high stakes” … Continue Reading
Context:child excavated as part of Keeladi’s 6th phase excavation. Details: *Skeletal remains of a child were excavated from Konthagai village… Continue Reading
Context: The deaths of at least 20 Indian soldiers, and reports of Chinese soldier casualties in clashes at the Galwan valley in Ladakh. Details: … Continue Reading
Context:About China’s legendary revolutionary leader Mao Zedong’s five finger policy Details: Three-pronged foreign policy approach: Mana… Continue Reading
Context:RBI to tighten rules for home finance firms. Details: *The Reserve Bank of India has proposed stringent norms for housing finance compan… Continue Reading
Context:SEBI has further eased fund-raising norms for firms. Details: *These measures along with the relaxation on rights issues, permitted earl… Continue Reading
Context:Assessment of OIL well blowout impact on environment begins. Details: *A team of The Energy and Research Institute and an accredited pri… Continue Reading
Context:The solution to the present crisis between the North and the South caused by the incompetence and irresponsibility of the South Korean authori… Continue Reading
Context:What makes the current stand-offs different is China’s readiness to use force in addressing challenges. Details: *This sharp turn mark… Continue Reading
Context:A Division Bench of Justices Sunil Shukre and Anil Kilor was hearing a petition filed by one Kirti Nipankar, raising concerns over the lake wa… Continue Reading
Context:Guwahati redefines the term “urban jungle” with 334 and counting free-ranging faunal species living in the green spaces within concrete st… Continue Reading
Context:The public sector banks have disbursed Rs16,031.39 crore till June 12, 2020, under the Rs3-lakh crore Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (… Continue Reading
Context:The suspension of the MPLADS for 2020-21 and 2021-22 in the wake of the pandemic has done away with this vital role of MPs. Details: *As… Continue Reading
Context: The changing dynamics of the India- Nepal relations and argues for a changed perspective for the relation. Details: *Benaras was a keys… Continue Reading
Context:Dexamethasone is the first drug to be shown to improve survival in COVID-19. Details: *Based on these results, one death would be preven… Continue Reading
Context:Elections for five non-permanent seats of the UN Security Council . Details: *India expects to sail through as the 193-member United Nat… Continue Reading
Context:Accusing the Chinese troops of “attempting to unilaterally change the status quo” in the Galwan valley. Details: *Accusing the Chine… Continue Reading
Context:New pipeline tariff, authorisation policy to push for higher share of gas in energy basket. Details: *In a bid to raise the share of nat… Continue Reading
Context:In pandemic crisis, bridging the gulf with West Asia. Details: *India’s Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar has said that India… Continue Reading
Context:In pandemic crisis, bridging the gulf with West Asia. Details: *India’s Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar has said that India… Continue Reading
Context: Remaining non-aligned is good advice. Details: *Confirmed facts about incursions during May are that Chinese forces came in sizeable n… Continue Reading
Context:A performance of the variant of Yakshagana theatre was streamed live on social media. Details: *The traditional art of ‘talamaddale’… Continue Reading
Context: India and Nepal need to move quickly to reverse the recent setback to ties. Details: *The Nepal government’s decision to pass the con… Continue Reading
Context:India is unique among democracies in that a constitutional right to equality is not backed by comprehensive legislation. Details: Voice… Continue Reading
Context: MSMEs wait for work as demand slumps post lockdown Pandemic. Details: *In the economic package for MSMEs, one of the major casualties… Continue Reading
Context: Supreme Court to continue virtual court system. Details: *A committee of seven Supreme Court judges, led by Justice N. Ramana, has de… Continue Reading
context: Can a COVID-19 vaccine be developed soon? Details: *A vaccine could be a weakened biological or synthetic agent administered to humans… Continue Reading
Context: Persistent global transmission of chikungunya from India. Details: *The resurgence of chikungunya virus in India in 2005, the Indian su… Continue Reading
Context: Participant enrolment to hydroxychloroquine arm was stopped with immediate effect. Details: *The RECOVERY trial, a large randomised con… Continue Reading
Context: The long border between the two Asian countries has neither been delineated nor demarcated. Details: What is LAC? *The Line of Actu… Continue Reading
context:Nepal unveiled the new map on May 20 after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated Darchula-Lipulekh link road on May 8. Details: * Ne… Continue Reading
Context: A model based on social distancing only ends up weakening the concept of a classroom being an essential laboratory. Details: *What we h… Continue Reading
Context: Uddhav Thackeray unveils Mumbai’s new flood warning system, calls it a boon. Details: *The flood warning system called IFLOWS-Mumbai,… Continue Reading
Context: Uddhav Thackeray unveils Mumbai’s new flood warning system, calls it a boon. Details: *The flood warning system called IFLOWS-Mumbai,… Continue Reading
Context: Poll on dark web shows 80% of respondents expressed interest in buying access to hacked accounts. Details: *As of December 2019, India… Continue Reading
Context: Government puts off decision on States' GST dues till July Details: *GST collections in the past two months have only reached 45% of th… Continue Reading
Content: Lockdown wages, Supreme Court allows firms to negotiate with staff. Details: *The Supreme Court on Friday asked factory owners and othe… Continue Reading
Context: Beijing think-tank links scrapping of Article 370 to LAC tensions. Details: *The article 370 allowed the state a certain amount of aut… Continue Reading
Details: The next G7 summit, tentatively scheduled in Washington DC in mid-June, has been postponed by the host, U.S . Logic of expansion: Tr… Continue Reading
Details: A news channel in India alleged recently that several private hospitals in the country were “exposed” by a “sting operation” to be… Continue Reading
Details: The Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change has issued an advisory saying people importing “exotic live species” will have t… Continue Reading
Details: During 2015, the baseline was 523 lions. Moreover, the distribution of the lions expanded from 22,000 sq. As soon as the State shared the … Continue Reading
Details: Its Article 1 states, “The boundary of Sikkim and Tibet shall be the crest of the mountain range separating the waters flowing into the … Continue Reading
Details: Although the latest news on the Ladakh front suggests that Chinese and Indian forces have begun to disengage in select areas, this does no… Continue Reading
Details: On May 12, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon Indians to be “vocal for local”. The way in which we, as citizens and professional… Continue Reading
Details: In what is prima facie suspected to be an act of cyber terrorism from Pakistan, the official email ids of seven employees of an Indian Pub… Continue Reading
Details: Chinese side removed some of the tents and some troops and vehicles have been moved back, and the Indian side too has reciprocated,” off… Continue Reading
Details: Mr. Singh, Secretary, Department of Water Resources, Union Ministry of Jal Sakthi, asked the Chairpersons of the Krishna and Godavari Rive… Continue Reading
Details: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said migrant workers should not be prosecuted for trying to reach home amid the national lockdown. A Bench… Continue Reading
Details: The news last week about a pregnant elephant having her mouth blown caused outrage on social media. It’s impossible not to empathise wit… Continue Reading
Details: Here, we propose certain policy options to leverage private sector resources for testing, hospitalisation, procurement of biomedical equip… Continue Reading
Details: The United Nations defines this body of water as the Persian Gulf. There is a commonality of interest among them in being major producers … Continue Reading
Details: The Odisha government is coming up with three mega educational complexes exclusively for tribal students, where both academic and sporting… Continue Reading
Details: Given the domestic political situation inside China, can the leadership afford to go back to status quo, asks Mr. Ranade, a former Additio… Continue Reading
Details: India has firmly conveyed its demand to China for restoring the status quo as existed in April along the border during the senior military… Continue Reading
Details: Google, they claim, “accomplishes its surreptitious tracking” through near ubiquitous tools such as Google Analytics, Google Ad Manage… Continue Reading
Details: As per the NSO, real GDP in the full fiscal year was estimated to have expanded by 4.2% from a year earlier, the slowest pace of growth in… Continue Reading
Details: It points out that reports of poaching for consumption and local trade have more than doubled during lockdown. The report, however, mentio… Continue Reading
Details: The results were published in the Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders. In all, 254 districts have a “very high level” of diabete… Continue Reading
Details: The Pangong Tso lake in Leh district of Ladakh, where large numbers of Chinese troops have moved in. Indian and Chinese officers meet at M… Continue Reading
Details: The Pangong Tso lake in Leh district of Ladakh, where large numbers of Chinese troops have moved in. Indian and Chinese officers meet at M… Continue Reading
Details: Since May 15, the National Center for Seismology has recorded seven small earthquakes, ranging from 1.8 to 4.5 on the Richter scale, with … Continue Reading
Details: Social bubbles: Micro-communities that could contain spread of Covid-19. Research published by the London School of Economics and Polit… Continue Reading
Details: Medicines are among humanity’s greatest achievements. They have helped attain dramatic improvements in health and longevity as well as h… Continue Reading
Details: RBI will make an initial contribution of Rs250 crore to the PIDF, covering half of the fund, while the remaining contribution will be from… Continue Reading
Details: With economic growth expected to be in the negative territory for the current financial year, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta D… Continue Reading
Details: India will highlight international terrorism, United Nations reforms and Security Council expansion, streamlining the world body’s peace… Continue Reading
Details: These military to military talks will ensure that there is no escalation on the ground between the two sides. But resolution is not going … Continue Reading
UPSC Civil Services Examinations 2020 dates announced. Check the new schedule The UPSC Civil Services and IFS preliminary examinations will now be … Continue Reading
Details: The Swiss cheese model is associated with accident investigation in an organisation or a system. These layers are visualised in the model … Continue Reading
Details: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a state of emergency and criticised a subsidiary of metals giant Norilsk Nickel afte… Continue Reading
Details: Whether the booby-trapped pineapple that took its life was intended for elephants or other animals matters little, because such traps litt… Continue Reading
Details: Justice Bhushan said there were two issues in the case. One, whether interest should be charged at all during the moratorium period. Two,… Continue Reading
Details: Flooding caused by the south-west monsoon led to 26 lakh displacements, while Cyclone Fani alone led to 18 lakh displacements, followed by… Continue Reading
Details: Indulging in Tablighi activities will attract a penalty of USD500 fine. The amended guidelines read, “foreign nationals granted any t… Continue Reading
Details: No talks on China: The summit came amidst tensions between India and China over the standoff at the Line of Actual Control, and Austral… Continue Reading
Details: Exactly 15 years after Manmohan Singh, as Congress Prime Minister, openly spoke against the free power supply scheme for farmers, the Bhar… Continue Reading
Details: Dismissing the current configuration of the “Group of Seven” or G-7 of the world’s most developed nations as “outdated”, U.S Pre… Continue Reading
Details: The Canadian Parliament had its first lockdown meeting towards the end of April, with roughly 280 of the 338 Members of Parliament attendi… Continue Reading
Details: It said the Rs50 crore in compensation, deposited by the company, would be spent on restoration. It also constituted a committee to prepar… Continue Reading
Details: To ramp up infrastructure along the China border, the Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to spend 10% funds of a Centrally sponsored sch… Continue Reading
Details: Special arrangement: At its meeting on Wednesday, the Cabinet also approved ordinances to remove restrictions on farmers selling their … Continue Reading
Details: How can India contain the economic impact of COVID-19? This will make India a more investor-friendly destination and we will also hand-… Continue Reading
Details: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bhutan for cooperation in the field of env… Continue Reading
Details: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday released former IAS officer and J&K People’s Movement (JKPM) party leader Shah Faesal … Continue Reading
Details: The police have taken enormous risks during the lockdown to ensure strict observance of guidelines, including physical distancing, which i… Continue Reading
Details: The monsoon has finally set in over Kerala in keeping with the textbook date of June 1. In May, the IMD had forecast a four-day delay in t… Continue Reading
Details: To benefit from global change, countries must have a bold vision and make the right strategic choice. Britain quickly built the largest mi… Continue Reading
Details: NCRA scientists discovered tiny radio flashes: While we have not seen the magnetic explosions, these weak radio flashes that we have di… Continue Reading
Details: Modest success: Stating that India had been able to achieve “modest success” in electronics manufacturing, Mr. Prasad said that Ind… Continue Reading
Details: A proposed firing range for the Border Security Force has become the trigger for unrest in northern Tripura’s Kanchanpur Subdivision ove… Continue Reading
Details: Evolutionary similarities: “Epidemiological assessments suggest that the common ancestor emerged in the month of February 2020 and po… Continue Reading
Details: China under the multi-billion-dollar CPEC will set up a 1,124-megawatt power project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir despite India’s object… Continue Reading
Details: President Donald Trump on Tuesday invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the next G-7 summit to be hosted by the U.S Presidency of the Gr… Continue Reading
Details: Maximum City on red alert as cyclone set to make landfall near Alibaug. All activity that was set to resume from Wednesday in the State… Continue Reading
Details: India’s economy is in a severe slowdown that is only going to get worse in a pandemic-stricken world. Three months after Finance Ministr… Continue Reading
Details: ” The Bhuj earthquake in 2001. A few days after the Kutch earthquake in January 2001, I was ringing the doorbell at Arthur C. Clarke’s… Continue Reading
Details: Such conditions have meant that Africa’s cycle of chronic external aid dependence continues. Africa needs medical protective equipment a… Continue Reading
Details: The idea of a social stock exchange for listing of social enterprise and voluntary organisations was mooted by Finance Minister Nirmala Si… Continue Reading
Details: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Monday approved Rs50,000 crore equity infusion for micro, small, and medium enterprises with … Continue Reading
Details: The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on Monday launched a micro-credit scheme for street vendors, which was announced by Finance Mini… Continue Reading
Details: Among cereals, the government increased the support price of bajra by Rs150 to Rs2,150 per quintal for this year, while that of ragi has b… Continue Reading
Details: The monsoon has arrived in Kerala, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday. This is four days earlier than what the IMD had for… Continue Reading
Details: The ‘Unlock 1’ plan should ensure a careful restarting of activities, the most important of which is the delivery of goods and everyda… Continue Reading
Details: The ongoing crisis is creating changes that could end up dividing society into pre- and post-COVID-19 days. These giants, all technology c… Continue Reading
Details: He said they completly ignored non-chemical measures. Chaudhary said a number of effective non-chemical remedies were suggested by experts… Continue Reading
Details: During a reality check, it was found that some had found alternative jobs, while in some cases even graduates have turned to MNREGA for he… Continue Reading
Details: The IMD has indicated that the monsoon is likely to set in over Kerala early this week though other agencies say it has already set in. Cu… Continue Reading
Details: In August 1950, one of Australia’s most celebrated jurists, Sir Owen Dixon wrote to his daughter, Anne, in Melbourne that Delhi was “a… Continue Reading
Details: What does it say? They have targeted Republicans, Conservatives & the President of the United States. Trump May 29, 2020 “At the same… Continue Reading
Details: On May 27, District Forest Officer Nandani Salaria and Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board -Kakinada Executive Engineer A. “On the si… Continue Reading
Details: India’s economic growth slipped to 3. 1% in the January-March quarter of 2019-20 showing impact of COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019-20, the In… Continue Reading
Details: A two-judge bench of the court comprising Chief Justice J. Satyanarayana Murthy directed the government to reinstate Mr. Ramesh Kumar as S… Continue Reading
Details: Uncertainty clouds the monsoon’s arrival over Kerala. Once the monsoon season sets in, there’s a certain uncertainty too in all weathe… Continue Reading
Details: Africa’s rich natural resources, long-term economic potential, youthful demography and influence as a bloc of 54 countries in multi-late… Continue Reading
Details: Again in 2007, China’s perception of the border in Depsang in the Ladakh sector, in Sikkim, and in many other places appeared to change.… Continue Reading
Details: Lawyers have challenged in the Supreme Court a law which makes Hindi the official language in courts in Haryana. Their petition contends t… Continue Reading
Details: A large number of migrant workers are still seen proceeding on foot to different places”. When Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta wondered a… Continue Reading
Details: Just last week, eastern India was battered by one of the most powerful cyclones in decades and now, even as hundreds of lives are lost eve… Continue Reading
Details: Today, India is a leading producer of a variety of agricultural and allied produce and exporter of some of them. This is due to the relent… Continue Reading
Details: The Reserve Bank of India is likely to allow banks to assign zero risk weight for loans that will be extended to the micro, medium and sma… Continue Reading
Details: Surveys show the presence of the Charru mussel in the Kadinamkulam, Paravur, Edava-Nadayara, Ashtamudi, Kayamkulam, Vembanad, Chettuva and… Continue Reading
Details: The threat of locusts, which have invaded vast swathes of land in Rajasthan and entered neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, is bigger this year i… Continue Reading
Details: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared on Wednesday that Hong Kong no longer enjoys the autonomy promised by Beijing, stripping the finan… Continue Reading
Details: A proposed security law could allow Chinese mainland authorities to set up shop in Hong Kong, but their powers would likely be restricted … Continue Reading
Details: Sharma Oli came as the Nepalese government gave more time to the main Opposition Nepali Congress to discuss a proposed amendment to the Co… Continue Reading
Details: A tribal farmer will find it difficult to make it to the district headquarters, said Milind Thatte, of Vayam, which works with tribals in … Continue Reading
Details: In the post-COVID world, countries and tech giants should be obligated to share data in the larger interest of mankind. Underlying most… Continue Reading
Details: The thrust is to get the Reserve Bank of India and other public financial institutions to infuse liquidity and increase lending by the fin… Continue Reading
Details: The thrust is to get the Reserve Bank of India and other public financial institutions to infuse liquidity and increase lending by the fin… Continue Reading
Details: The National Crisis Management Committee , chaired by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, met on Monday to discuss the relief and restoration m… Continue Reading
Details: A group of 10 Central trade unions wrote to ILO, seeking its intervention to protect workers’ rights and international labour standards.… Continue Reading
Details: With wheat harvesting over in the key grain producing State of Punjab, there has been a spike in incidents of stubble burning compared wit… Continue Reading
Details: China on Monday threatened counter-measures against the U.S. insists on hurting China’s interests, China will have to take every necessa… Continue Reading
Details: Indian, Chinese troops dig in with reinforcements. Deliberations are continuing on a daily basis between military commanders of India and … Continue Reading
Details: The late Patamakki Rathnakar, former MLA of Tirthahalli who had requested the State government to conduct research over the issue, had sai… Continue Reading
Details: Every day, we hear of migrant labourers walking hundreds of miles, many dying in the process. I refer here to the Supreme Court, which has… Continue Reading
Details: While it does not mean much on the ground, it has successfully managed to deflect attention from the pittance offered by way of fiscal sup… Continue Reading
Details: The fresh leaks include nearly 2,000 Aadhaar cards and details of 18 lakh Indians, all available for free. The leak of nearly 2.9 crore jo… Continue Reading
Details: Among the rare trees that have fallen include the only full-grown kalpabriksha tree in the garden, the mad tree , the para rubber tree , t… Continue Reading
Details: Foreign Minister says Beijing is open to international probe led by the WHO. The United States is pushing relations with China to “th… Continue Reading
Details: The map showed Kalapani as part of Pithoragarh district. Nepal protested immediately and drew attention to the lingering issue. On May 8, … Continue Reading
Details: On May 14, Indian Army Chief General Manoj Naravane said incidents at the Pangong lake in Ladakh on May 5 and at Naku La in Sikkim on May … Continue Reading
Details: Personal details of about 2.90 crore Indian job seekers have been found dumped on the dark net, raising concerns among cyber crime agencie… Continue Reading
Details: Both governments have discouraged farmers from growing rice, officials told The Hindu. In Haryana, farmers had sown cotton in 5.11 lakh he… Continue Reading
Details: She said clear instructions had been given in a meeting with CEOs and MDs of public sector banks and financial institutions on Friday that… Continue Reading
Details: on Saturday, the State’s COVID-19 positive count touched 239 with the addition of 70 infected persons to Friday’s figure. “We are fa… Continue Reading
Details: China has hinted at a shift in how it will pursue its signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) amid growing concerns about debt repayments… Continue Reading
Details: To intensively advance the trial work of fintech innovation regulation, the PBoC supports the expansion of the pilot program to cover the … Continue Reading
Details: The Reserve Bank of India further reduced the key interest rate or the repo rate by 40 bps on Friday, after a yet another out-of-turn Mone… Continue Reading
Details: Nepal Prime Minister K. Sharma Oli took New Delhi by surprise this month with an aggressive posture on the issue, especially over the inau… Continue Reading
Details: First such invasion since 1992-93: Six swarms of locust entered Madhya Pradesh on May 17 from Rajasthan but have caused minimal crop da… Continue Reading
Details: Poonawalla, whose family owns the vaccine maker, said scientists, drugmakers and manufacturers were collaborating at an unparalleled scale… Continue Reading
Details: IndiGo, the largest airline in the country, which will operate 450 airlines to begin with, requires passengers to “download the Aarogya … Continue Reading
Details: An official source who did not wish to be named said India had proposed a trilateral response in partnership with Pakistan and Iran to com… Continue Reading
Details: China on Friday introduced the draft of a controversial national security law in Hong Kong in its parliament to tighten Beijing’s contro… Continue Reading
Details: When an aircraft travels at supersonic speed – meaning faster than sound – the field of sound waves moves to the rear of the craft. A st… Continue Reading
Details: The trail of death and devastation that Cyclone Amphan has left in West Bengal and Odisha demonstrates, once again, the fragile state of e… Continue Reading
Details: With four incidents along the Line of Actual Control in recent weeks, the India-China border is witnessing the highest tensions since the … Continue Reading
Details: In India, the Constituent Assembly regarded the principle as so foundational that, through Article 32, it granted the Supreme Court the au… Continue Reading
Details: Under the scheme, up to Rs 10,000 per acre a year will be transferred into the bank accounts of farmers and the first instalment totalling… Continue Reading
Details: In addition there have been stand offs at Demchok and Galwan Nalah both in Eastern Ladakh, sources said. In the past few weeks, however, a… Continue Reading
Details : Opening up economic production from a lockdown, even partially, when the COVID-19 pandemic has not peaked in the country poses an extraor… Continue Reading
Details: The decision to notify a list of weapons systems for sourcing entirely from Indian manufacturers, the promise to progressively expand this… Continue Reading
Details: A special purpose vehicle would be set up by a public sector bank to manage a Stressed Asset Fund whose special securities would be guaran… Continue Reading
Details: A seven-member Russian technocrat team reached the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site on Wednesday to inspect the ‘unusual vibrations… Continue Reading
Details: The invasion of locusts had started from the India-Pakistan border on April 11 and they have now crossed the Thar desert and affected 16 o… Continue Reading
Details: In the first instalment, Rs.1,500 crore would be distributed among 18 lakh farmers, more than 80% of them small and marginal, Chief Minist… Continue Reading
Details: China relationship, already strained due to trade disputes, has further deteriorated over U.S accusations of China’s mismanagement of th… Continue Reading
Details: The incidents were marked by “aggressive behaviour by both sides”, which resulted in injuries to 76 Indian soldiers, including serious… Continue Reading
Details: New Delhi says such artificial enlargement of territorial claims will not be accepted by India. Nepal’s new official map is “artificia… Continue Reading
Details: Three persons were killed as super cyclonic storm Amphan made landfall near Sagar Islands in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on … Continue Reading
Details: Three persons were killed as super cyclonic storm Amphan made landfall near Sagar Islands in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on … Continue Reading
Details: Pakistan first operationalised this strategy in regard to Afghanistan following the overthrow of Zahir Shah by his cousin Daud Khan in 197… Continue Reading
Details: If Mao Zedong represented the crude face of Chinese communism, then Zhou was the epitome of its refinement. Where Mao preferred to exercis… Continue Reading
Details: Movement restrictions owing to the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to an initial statistical reduction in drug seizures, but without a real cha… Continue Reading
Details: The Central Bureau of Investigation has sent alerts to all the States, Union Territories and the Central agencies on a malicious software … Continue Reading
Details: health officials said here on Tuesday, listing a number of other ways in which the two countries are working together. “In the context o… Continue Reading
Details: India has upgraded its infrastructure, letting troops beef up patrol in areas where China has established a more frequent presence. A grea… Continue Reading
Details: On Tuesday evening, the cyclone lay about 360 km south of Paradip in Odisha and 510 km south-southwest of Digha. Very high wind speeds ran… Continue Reading
Details: If implemented, they will not only weaken the control of States over an industry supplying a basic human necessity such as electricity but… Continue Reading
Details: Bhadauria. Bhadauria on Monday, while the “high priority” deal for 83 LCA-MK1A jets was expected to be signed in three months. On… Continue Reading
Details: Rajesh Gokhle, Faculty, National Institute of Immunology and former head of the CSIR-Insitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, who has… Continue Reading
Details: The language of the resolution reflects the diplomatic tug of war that has taken place since the pandemic began in early 2019 . China has … Continue Reading
Details: On May 15, President Donald Trump threatened to “cut off the whole relationship” with China over the COVID-19 pandemic, which originat… Continue Reading
Details: The J&K administration on Monday notified the J&K grant of domicile certificate procedure rules 2020 and set a fast track process in motio… Continue Reading
Details: The Ministry of Law and Justice on Monday notified the appointment P. Krishna Bhat as an additional judge of the Karnataka High Court, alm… Continue Reading
Details: A recent medical technique, known as less invasive surfactant administration , has been started at J. Lon Government Children’s Hospital… Continue Reading
Details: The sea turned rough in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, on May 18, 2020, under the influence of Amphan. Currently, Amphan is located about … Continue Reading
Details: Our bowlers have done well to limit the COVID-19 score and flatten the curve. Putting aside threats to personal safety, family interests, … Continue Reading
Details: As India slowly attempts to lift its nationwide lockdown, under compulsion of reviving the economy, labour rights are disappearing at an a… Continue Reading
Details: The Centre’s objective of using the COVID-19 crisis to usher in an Atmanirbhar Bharat saw Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman focus Frid… Continue Reading
Details: The DSR technique is less time consuming and labour intensive than the conventional practice. The DSR technique called ‘tar-wattar DSR�… Continue Reading
Details: Called the ‘Special Long Term Transition Loan to Discoms for COVID-19', the financial assistance is meant to help the Discoms clear thei… Continue Reading
Details: The total package amounts to almost Rs.21 lakh crore by the Centre’s accounting, but is heavy on credit-related measures, including Rs.8… Continue Reading
Details: It said the highest number of undertrial prisoners released was 9,977 in Uttar Pradesh, followed by 5,460 in Rajasthan and 4,547 in Tamil … Continue Reading
Details: U.S. is trying to salvage its deal with the Taliban, despite rising violence in Afghanistan, National Security Advisory Board member and f… Continue Reading
Details: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and political rival Abdullah Abdullah have signed a power-sharing agreement two months after both declared t… Continue Reading
Details: The first tranche, aimed at micro, small and medium enterprises , non-banking financial companies and at some individuals was announced by… Continue Reading
Details: The government has maintained that the farm sector is functioning smoothly despite the lockdown to check the spread of COVID-19, and the l… Continue Reading
Details: Rawat told a small group of journalists during the week. Saying the naval fighter jets can operate in deserts and the IAF jets there can m… Continue Reading
Details: Sitharaman said, noting that structural reforms were the focus of Saturday’s announcements. “These sectors with these reforms are goin… Continue Reading
Details: Ryan said the concept of herd immunity is generally used for calculating how many people will need to be vaccinated in a population in ord… Continue Reading
Details: Narendra Modi had announced India’s decision to quit the grouping, which includes the 10 ASEAN nations. As the deadline for a response t… Continue Reading
Details: Faced with dwindling revenue due to the stagnation in economic activity since the national lockdown began, States are desperate to raise m… Continue Reading
Details: In such States institutions of higher learning controlled and managed by governmental agencies act like mercenaries, promote the political… Continue Reading
Details: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday announced Rs 1 lakh crore fund to boost agriculture infrastructure across the country. The f… Continue Reading
Details: Sitharaman said. Several agricultural economists and farm activists welcomed the reform and investment announcements, but questioned the l… Continue Reading
Details: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the government not to resort to any coercive action against private companies who have not paid their wo… Continue Reading
Details: The difference in the arrival dates by both agencies is as much as a week. The normal date of onset for the State is June 1. In a statemen… Continue Reading
Details: “We are testing two N gene regions, so we need to recalibrate the machine to test both of them independently as a common cut-off wasn’… Continue Reading
Details: The UK High Court on Thursday rejected a plea of businessman Vijay Mallya for permission to move the Supreme Court against the dismissal o… Continue Reading
Details: Sitharaman said there are an estimated 8 crore migrant workers who have been housed in government and privately run relief camps across th… Continue Reading
Details: China opposed any move by Taiwan to use the COVID-19 pandemic as a “pretext” to seek independence, its Embassy in New Delhi said on Th… Continue Reading
Details: We are facing COVID-19 crisis and once societies and governments have dealt with the challenges, we will have these talks. The mixed messa… Continue Reading
Details: The recent incidents of face-off between the troops of India and China are neither “co-related” nor have any connection with other glo… Continue Reading
Details: The recent incidents of face-off between the troops of India and China are neither “co-related” nor have any connection with other glo… Continue Reading
Details: The government could have specified the interest cap on these loans without leaving it to individual lenders as each of them has its own r… Continue Reading
Details: The Prime Minister has just announced Lockdown 4.0. The announcements by the Finance Minister thus far involve no additional public spendi… Continue Reading
Details: Shock point: Snatching away labour rights in the midst of a global pandemic and national lockdown is distressing and shocking. Over the… Continue Reading
Details: The Central Board of Direct Taxation , a wing of the Ministry of Finance, has initiated disciplinary proceedings against some Indian Reven… Continue Reading
Details: In a first of its kind proposal. the Army plans to take civilians on a three- year ‘Tour of Duty’ or ‘three-year short service’ on… Continue Reading
Details: Taiwan has proposed a regular communication channel with India to link up medical agencies to better cooperate in the fight against COVID-… Continue Reading
Details: Significantly, the strictures followed an inquiry into the CDC’s funding of an “unapproved” Indian laboratory in Manipal for work on… Continue Reading
Details: Diplomatic solution: Gyawali said that the leaders sought a diplomatic solution to the crisis that involves the territory of Kalapani t… Continue Reading
Details: The Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund, better known as PM CARES, will allocate Rs.3,100 crore … Continue Reading
Details: Fissures in cooperation: ‘National Plan’ under Section 11, as well as issuance of binding guidelines by the Centre to States under … Continue Reading
Details: The Central government has so far followed a mostly top-down approach in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. This centralised approach is coun… Continue Reading
Details: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said a new-look Lockdown 4.0 beyond May 17 was in the offing, while announcing an economic stimulu… Continue Reading
Details: India is among 88 countries that are likely to miss global nutrition targets by 2025, according to the Global Nutrition Report 2020 releas… Continue Reading
Details: Helicopters of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army came close to the border during the face-off with the Indian Army near Pangong Tso… Continue Reading
Details: move to reinstate Taiwan’s observer status at the World Health Assembly or to China’s opposition to it. Jaishankar attended a seven-na… Continue Reading
Details: In addition to making the Aarogya Setu app mandatory, the Health Ministry also directed the States to focus on more effective surveillance… Continue Reading
Details: The Parliament building in New Delhi. The Indian Constitution provides for parity of powers between the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in l… Continue Reading
Details: Over the last few days, many States have made changes to their labour laws. Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab have extended the maxim… Continue Reading
Details: Soon after Independence, while the Constitution of a free India was being drafted, Dr. Ambedkar, the chairperson of the Drafting Committee… Continue Reading
Details: Ten central trade unions on May 11 said they were considering lodging a complaint with the International Labour Organisation against the �… Continue Reading
Details: COVID-19 has given a boost to e-NAM, the national digital platform for agricultural trade, with the number of connected mandis, or wholesa… Continue Reading
Details: The gas will be transported in two consignments: Jolted by the death of 12 persons and hundreds falling sick due to gas leak at LG Poly… Continue Reading
Details: China on Monday threatened to retaliate against a U.S rule that tightening visa restrictions on Chinese journalists, in an escalating row … Continue Reading
Details: Monday though a social media post from the Embassy of India in Nepal stated that Mr. Nepal disputes India’s claims and maintains that th… Continue Reading
Details: In February 2020, the nine-judge Bench dismissed the objections and decided to hear the reference. It had, however, postponed the publicat… Continue Reading
Details: India finds itself in an increasingly dangerous world, one that is fragmenting and slowing down economically. Rapid shifts in the balance … Continue Reading
Details: The National Green Tribunal on Friday directed LG Polymers India to deposit an initial amount of Rs.50 crore for the damage caused by the … Continue Reading
Details: Even pre-lockdown, it was only 800 transactions per month, out of the 22 crore ration cards making transactions each month. If utilised pr… Continue Reading
Details: Rating agency Moody’s said that the negative outlook of India reflects increasing risks that economic growth will remain significantly l… Continue Reading
Details: India should discuss its concerns on terrorism directly with the Taliban, said U. The envoy said India had a “significant role” in Afg… Continue Reading
Details: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Friday asked the Centre to respond to a writ petition challenging its directive to make 'Aaro… Continue Reading
Details: The nationwide lockdown has been central to the government’s strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. While the lockdown has helped con… Continue Reading
Details: They were found in the latest study of one of a pair of binary brown dwarfs. A group of international astrophysicists have identified c… Continue Reading
Details: CM announces compensation of Rs.1 crore for families of deceased. Eleven people, including a six-year-old girl, died and over 350 were adm… Continue Reading
Details: Expressing “deep concern” about the increase in violence in Afghanistan, Mr. Jaishankar and Mr. Doval made a particular mention of the… Continue Reading
Details: “While academic engagement through e-resources during the period of lockdown is unexceptionable, any attempt to formalise it as online t… Continue Reading
Details: Emergency services across Europe have seen a sharp rise in domestic abuse calls under sweeping lockdowns imposed across the continent, the… Continue Reading
Details: Donald Trump has said the COVID-19 pandemic is a worse “attack” on the U.S. The President has ramped up his rhetoric against Beijing i… Continue Reading
Details: During the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19, it has become clear that many activities can simply be done onli… Continue Reading
Details: If in April there were early signs of Kerala gaining an upper hand over the virus, its control became clear from the fourth week of April.… Continue Reading
Details: When complex systems come to catastrophes, i. critical points of instability, they re-emerge in distinctly new forms, according to the sci… Continue Reading
Details: Cyber experts say the aim is to capitalise on the dubious fame and gain followers. Even as the Delhi police cracked down on the ‘Bois… Continue Reading
Details: China on Tuesday successfully launched a new rocket and prototype spacecraft, state media said, in a major test of the country’s ambitio… Continue Reading
Details: Iran's parliament has passed a bill allowing the government to slash four zeros from the rial, Iranian state media reported on Monday, aft… Continue Reading
Details: We defer this task to the best wisdom of those on whom the Constitution of India bestows this duty. Let the Secretary, Ministry of Home Af… Continue Reading
Details: Set up under the Food Corporations Act 1964, in its first decade, the FCI was at the forefront of India’s quest of self-sufficiency in r… Continue Reading
Details: Under the scheme, each Member of Parliament “has the choice to suggest to the District Collector for works to the tune of Rs.5 crores pe… Continue Reading
Details: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed an ultra violet (UV) disinfection tower for rapid and chemical-free… Continue Reading
Details: Businessman Vijay Mallya has sought permission from the U.S . had turned down the businessman’s appeal, concluding that there was a p… Continue Reading
Details: Gilgit-Baltistan has functioned as a “provincial autonomous region” since 2009. India has issued a demarche to protest what it call… Continue Reading
Details: In the global war against the novel coronavirus, emerging economies, many belonging to BRICS, have reached out to other countries humbled … Continue Reading
Details: In a recent press briefing, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported noticeable trends with respect to COVID-19 cases in India. … Continue Reading
Details: Biggest problem: In a CII poll of 300-odd CEOs released on Sunday, almost half say an economic recovery will take over a year. In such … Continue Reading
Details: To overhaul it’s nine year-old uplink and downlink policy for private satellite TV channels, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry h… Continue Reading
Details: Despite a massive 50% drop in oil revenues and a downturn in the economy, Saudi Arabia’s investments in India will not be affected, the … Continue Reading
Details: This is the vaccine candidate to be used in Phase 1 clinical trial at the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility in Oxford, Britain, April 2, … Continue Reading
Details: Why was it needed? That led to fears that the debt funds of many other fund houses could face redemption pressure accentuated by the pa… Continue Reading
Details: The antibody is capable of binding with the spike protein found on the outer layer of the virus. An electrical signal is generated when th… Continue Reading
Details: Remittances to developing nations are set to fall as migrant workers are hit hard by the virus crisis. Mohammad Osman Goni, a migrant w… Continue Reading
Details: The government has unequivocally dismissed the US Commission of International Religious Freedom’s latest report, which ranks India on th… Continue Reading
Details: The government’s Aarogya Setu app to track COVID-19 cases was not accessible to persons with disabilities , particularly those with hear… Continue Reading
Details: The threat of emerging infectious diseases to global health and the economy, trade, and tourism has never abated. Pandemics can spread rap… Continue Reading
Details: Widen the food basket: The second dimension is the access to food, which is a function of purchasing power, as unless you are a farmer … Continue Reading
Details: A new Urban Employment Guarantee Act is needed to complement the existing rural jobs scheme during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, said a gro… Continue Reading
Details: Uttar Pradesh and Bihar joined the Centre’s ration card portability scheme on International Labour Day, offering some hope that their hu… Continue Reading
Details: In a letter published in The Lancet on April 30, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros A Ghebreyesus and others highlight a fe… Continue Reading
Details: The exigency: There was a great deal of anxiety, particularly about the graduating batches of students, lest the ongoing session should… Continue Reading
Details: India was conspicuous by its absence from the meeting on April 16, given its historical and strategic ties with Afghanistan, but not for t… Continue Reading
details: On Monday, the RBI had announced a special window of Rs.50,000 crore for mutual funds in view of the redemption pressure that the fund hou… Continue Reading
Details: Structures built on Mekong river altered its natural flow: A new study highlighting the impact of China’s dams on the Mekong river ha… Continue Reading
Details: While India made “meaningful progress” to enhance IP protection and enforcement in some areas, it did not resolve recent and long-st… Continue Reading
Details: The State government wants to meet the target of 50 lakh downloads of the Centre’s app Following instructions by the State’s Informat… Continue Reading
Details: The court held that rights of trade, business and occupation or religious rights “do not come in the way of securing transparency and re… Continue Reading
Details: ” Justice Khanna was not speaking about the crushing of freedom at the point of a bayonet. He was concerned, rather, about situations wh… Continue Reading
Details: The dissolved oxygen concentration, a measure of the amount of free oxygen available in river systems, “rose marginally” from March 22… Continue Reading
Details: South Asia could face a further public health crisis as children miss routine vaccinations, the UN warned on Tuesday, spurring fears that … Continue Reading
Details: India has moved to the seventh position from the previous year’s eighth in the annual Global Terrorism Index 2019. In March, the Cabinet… Continue Reading
Details: Commission on International Religious Freedom has downgraded India to the lowest ranking, “countries of particular concern” in its 202… Continue Reading
Details: The government had said the State government employees’ salary for six days every month would be deducted for the next five months. The … Continue Reading
Details: A deemed institution under the University Grants Commission Act of 1956 has the same common public duty like a university to confer academ… Continue Reading
Details: The Maha Kumbh Mela is organised once in 12 years, and the last time the event was held in 2010, about 10 million had reportedly congregat… Continue Reading
Details: Amidst the national lockdown, the Supreme Court and several other courts have been holding virtual proceedings. A question of concern to t… Continue Reading
Details: *The COVID-19 epidemic has mercilessly highlighted our shortcomings and our failures, even as we pride ourselves on being the world’s la… Continue Reading
Details: The very complexity of the novel coronavirus leads to radical uncertainty. Hence, it it unlikely that the world will ever be the same agai… Continue Reading
Details: Under a lockdown with summer approaching and with the injunction of constant hand washing as a preventative for the spread of COVID-19, ho… Continue Reading
Details: India’s tensions and rivalry with Pakistan, China are among major drivers for its increased expenditure’. The global military expen… Continue Reading
Details: A high-powered panel must take over management of fund house, says brokers’ association. The Association of National Exchanges Member… Continue Reading
Details: In a bid to address concerns arising out of Franklin Templeton’s decision to wind up six debt funds, the Reserve Bank of India on Monday… Continue Reading
Details: Election to the council, scheduled on April 4, had been deferred because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The BTAD, comprising four districts of … Continue Reading
Details: The Central Bank of Sri Lanka recently sought a USD400 million currency swap with the Reserve Bank of India , to boost its foreign reserve… Continue Reading
Details: A Delhi-based rights body has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention in ensuring food for the Chakma and Hajong communities … Continue Reading
Details: In the wake of the controversy surrounding the Sprinklr deal, the State government has decided to carry out a security audit by CERT-In, t… Continue Reading
Details: Movement of inputs and finished goods is still disrupted even after lockdown relaxation, say 60% of companies. Almost half of the indus… Continue Reading
Details: Shortage of labour due to COVID-19 pandemic likely to influence decision of the farmers in the State. Punjab can see around three lakh … Continue Reading
Details: Developed by the National Informatics Centre under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, the app got its biggest push when… Continue Reading
Details: Claims were made of the virus being manufactured in laboratories and then shipped to nations to let loose on their populations. In a paper… Continue Reading
Details: The Centre plans to fast track the review of some investment proposals from neigbouring countries such as China following concerns new scr… Continue Reading
Details: Forest department warns public against harming bats. We should remember that all wild animals harbour viruses and it is very biased and… Continue Reading
Details: The merging entities were about 30 and 8 times the Sun’s mass: The event, dubbed GW190412, was detected nearly a year ago, and this i… Continue Reading
Details: This is exactly where the pandemic could help BRICS, experts believe. Apart from that, BRICS countries are planning to work on an early wa… Continue Reading
Details: If every adversity presents an opportunity and every cloud has a silver lining, then the COVID-19 pandemic is the time to bring in innovat… Continue Reading
Details: The Supreme Court is right in considering cent per cent reservation as anathema to the constitutional scheme of equality even if it is for… Continue Reading
Details: He recommended a “cautious approach” for preserving the “basic integrity of this forested hill slope” that is a part of the elepha… Continue Reading
Details: Despite the strain on government finances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no credible proposal to amend the legislation meant to co… Continue Reading
Details: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Friday directed the State government to anonymise the data of COVID-19 patients and those un… Continue Reading
Details: Since the first case of novel coronavirus infection in India was reported in end-January, many healthcare workers have been subjected to a… Continue Reading
Details: In recent days, China has conducted military drills and deployed large-scale military assets to the maritime area, while officially celebr… Continue Reading
Details: The Reserve Bank of India has announced simultaneous purchase and sale of government bonds in a bid to soften long-term yields. Such open … Continue Reading
Details: In a major relief for corporate borrowers hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, the government has decided to amend the insolvency law to… Continue Reading
Details: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday barring certain categories of immigrants from admission to the U.S. This wil… Continue Reading
Deatils: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had in a recent advisory cautioned against the spraying of disinfectant on people as part … Continue Reading
Details: Enacting a law barring appointments of retired judges by the government will restore confidence in the judiciary. The Constitution has … Continue Reading
Details: The upheaval caused by the novel coronavirus should inspire a review of past choices and policies. When several States decided to stop giv… Continue Reading
Details: The microscopic SARS-CoV-2, by causing a global pandemic, has forced much of humanity to cease everyday practices and jump-start new ones.… Continue Reading
Details: MGR Medical University has developed a vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 through ‘reverse vaccinology’, the institution’s Vice-Ch… Continue Reading
Details: The Union Department of Biotechnology has allotted Rs.143.89 lakh for JNTBGRI to take up the project. The whole genome sequencing of 1,… Continue Reading
Details: The pandemic and declining oil prices are likely to reduce remittances from the U.S. the U.K, and EU countries to South Asia, resulting in… Continue Reading
Details: A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday held that both the Central and State governments have the power to fix the price of… Continue Reading
Details: President Donald Trump has taken his administration’s war on immigration to the next level. What does the suspension mean? Trump h… Continue Reading
Details: The two-stage satellite launch took off from Iran’s Central Desert, says Revolutionary Guard. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard … Continue Reading
Details: “If any of these sets of people had a prior illness, then their condition is likely to worsen because of stress, or due to medicines a… Continue Reading
Details: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a Rs15,000-crore investment package for the COVID-19 emergency response and health system prepared… Continue Reading
Details: A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court held it unconstitutional to provide 100% reservation for tribal teachers in schools l… Continue Reading
Details: They generally do not cover harassment at home and workplace and are focussed more on physical violence. The penal provisions contained in… Continue Reading
Details: Five decades after the oil shock of 1973, when an Arab embargo on the supply of oil to some western powers including the United States sen… Continue Reading
Details: Besides addressing the immediate distress conditions of migrants, the state needs to think of long-term solutions. Seasonal migration i… Continue Reading
Details: SAGAR seeks to differentiate India’s leadership from the modus operandi of other regionally active major powers and to reassure littoral… Continue Reading
Details: The name given to diseases transmitted from animals to humans is “zoonoses”, based on the Greek words for “animal” and “sickness… Continue Reading
Details: Why did prices fall like this? WTI oil is traded as futures contracts in the NYMEX where traders buy and sell monthly futures such as, … Continue Reading
Details: In this August 18, 2013 photo, Japanese Coast Guard boat and vessel sail alongside Japanese activists' fishing boat, not in photo, warning… Continue Reading
Details: It has been reduced to under 3,800 in the past 18 months, according to Castellum. About 1,800 of the names have been removed since the beg… Continue Reading
Details: Sepsivac, a drug jointly developed by the Ahmedabad-based Cadilla Pharmaceuticals and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ,… Continue Reading
Details: While it has become anachronistic, the need for legal safeguards and welfare measures for migrants has become even more pressing and urgen… Continue Reading
Details: The government’s decision to ban foreign direct investments through the automatic route from neighbouring countries that share a land bo… Continue Reading
Details: While catastrophes affect people at large, the economical, sociological and psychological impact that each catastrophe has on women is pro… Continue Reading
Details: The threat of COVID-19, however, will continue. This will lead to a fundamental transformation in the role of the state in regulating soci… Continue Reading
Details: oil futures contract in a frenzy on Monday, sending the contract into negative territory for the first time in history, as barely any buye… Continue Reading
Details: on Monday dismissed the appeal of businessman Vijay Mallya against a lower court’s order for his extradition to India in connection with… Continue Reading
Details: The quality of water in the Yamuna has improved along the Delhi stretch during the nationwide lockdown, compared to April last year, accor… Continue Reading
Details: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has allowed the holding of a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Information and Technology via video con… Continue Reading
Details: In an April 17 decision, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry imposed restrictions saying companies from countries that share borders wit… Continue Reading
Detail: The Delhi High Court has directed the Centre and the city government to hold top-level meeting to deliberate on measures to curb domestic v… Continue Reading
Details: Over the initial phase of the national lockdown , India reported a 20-fold increase in confirmed SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 cases , and a 36-fold… Continue Reading
Details: On April 11, the Department of Pharmaceuticals told the Home Ministry that the industry was operating at just 20%-30% of capacity and call… Continue Reading
Details: I have been impressed by the reaction of the India government and other governments in South Asia. With limited health-care capacity, it i… Continue Reading
Details: This group had caused outbreak of SARS in 2002 and MERS in 2009. It is less lethal than SARS but significantly higher than influenza virus… Continue Reading
Details: The principal fault is with Beijing and not WHO, which is still a body dependent on member states, says the former U. Had global governanc… Continue Reading
Details: Electron microscope image of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Excitement about treating the new coronavirus with malaria drugs is rai… Continue Reading
Details: The Ministry of Commerce press note amending the FDI policy to make investments from countries which ‘share a land border’ with India … Continue Reading
Details: In a move that will restrict Chinese investments, the Centre has made prior government approval mandatory for foreign direct investments f… Continue Reading
Details: “All governments in South Asia have responded rapidly to the crisis, but their task is daunting. Governments have imposed social-distanc… Continue Reading
Details: Manipur’s tradition of making rice beer, the practice of tying turbans in Rajasthan and several different dances, forms of music and fes… Continue Reading
Details: Kerala’s much heralded success in social development has invited endless theories of its cultural, historical or geographical exceptiona… Continue Reading
Details: Late night on March 23, while the nation was vexed with the coronavirus crisis, Shivraj Singh Chouhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party was sw… Continue Reading
Details: RBI stipulated that small and mid-sized NBFCs and micro-finance institutions should receive at least 50% of these funds. Banks can avai… Continue Reading
Details: Shaktikanta Das further said surplus liquidity in the banking system has increased substantially as result of central bank’s actions. In… Continue Reading
Details: The Chitra GeneLAMP-N, made by scientists at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology , Thiruvananthapuram, h… Continue Reading
Details: Disruptions in domestic food supply chains are a pressing issue as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, World Bank President David Malpass told … Continue Reading
Details: She has lost her source of livelihood because we are under a lockdown and economic activity has stopped. A lockdown is necessary to preven… Continue Reading
Details: Around eight million people in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries constitute a unique cohort among Indian diaspora communities around … Continue Reading
Details: State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender, has decided to extend term loan facilities to non-banking finance companies as well a… Continue Reading
Details: The Agriculture Ministry hopes to ramp up production of coarse cereals this year. The Ministry admits that the challenge is how to create … Continue Reading
Details: Beijing denies accusations, says it is committed to a moratorium on tests: China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclea… Continue Reading
Details: Let’s not make it any tougher,” Kristalina Georgieva told BBC radio. , of the EU, the whole world. The transition period is due to end… Continue Reading
Details: The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday said it had started pool testing COVID-19 samples in the State. Meanwhile, the number of deaths d… Continue Reading
Details: Kejriwal said that the results of these trials would be out in three-four days from now and hoped that the technique would work and that l… Continue Reading
Details: The President said the group had promoted China's “disinformation” about the virus that likely led to a wider outbreak of the virus th… Continue Reading
Details: A partial reopening of the economy is being proposed, but a lot will depend on the extent of success in containing the spread of the COVID… Continue Reading
Details: Cosmetic cuts: The 30% cut in the Rs.1 lakh per month salary and the Rs.27,000 cut in office and constituency allowances amount to savi… Continue Reading
Details: Under the NFSA, the PDS is supposed to cover 75% of the population in rural areas and 50% of the population in urban areas, which works ou… Continue Reading
Details: Adverse effects: “The use of these tunnels may give a false sense of security and may have adverse health effects as sodium hypochlor… Continue Reading
details: Delhi has been given the go-ahead to use plasma enrichment technique on a trial basis to save the lives of critical COVID-19 patients, Lie… Continue Reading
Details: The outbreak, which spread from Constantinople to both the West and East, had killed up to 25 to 100 million people. The plague would c… Continue Reading
Details: The anatomy of rumours: Not all rumours are pernicious. For a start, a rumour is an untested piece of information, opinion, report or s… Continue Reading
Details: “India is not able to get required quantities of test kits, PPE and parts of ventilators through importation. A disastrous model: … Continue Reading
Details: India is facing the worst public health crisis in its independent history which pales the earlier ones such as AIDS, SARS and H1N1 into in… Continue Reading
Details: Global economic output to contract by 3% due to coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a “severe” effect on the world e… Continue Reading
Details: “The mobile application has been customised to collect COVID-19 specific geospatial datasets through community engagement to augment the… Continue Reading
Details: Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba will hold a videoconference on Wednesday with Chief Secretaries of all States to discuss the future road map… Continue Reading
Details: United Nations has warned that around 117 million children worldwide face measles risk because countries are using their vaccine resources… Continue Reading
Details: The quality of water in the Delhi stretch of the Yamuna has increased due to “complete reduction in industrial pollutants” in the rive… Continue Reading
Details: Any offset agreements will be defined in negotiations between India and contractors The U.S. State Department has approved two potentia… Continue Reading
Details: The background to the Poona Pact was the Communal Award of August 1932, which, among other things, reserved 71 seats in the central legisl… Continue Reading
Details: Removal of A.P The legality of the removal of the Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner is seriously in doubt. That it was the culmin… Continue Reading
Details: With Indian courts too under a lockdown for three weeks , citizens have severely restricted access to justice for this period. However, th… Continue Reading
Details: The Union government is exploring raising a loan to pay the shortfall of the Goods and Services Tax compensation amount to States as the l… Continue Reading
Details: Judgment is based on M. A Governor can call for a floor test any time he objectively feels a government in power has lost the confidence o… Continue Reading
Details: Online child pornography traffic after the lockdown in the country has gone up by 95% with online data monitoring websites showing an incr… Continue Reading
Details: Now, at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations recognises domestic violence against women as a “shadow pandemic”. The C… Continue Reading
Details: The only certainty right now in a pandemic-gripped world is the all-enveloping uncertainty. And the WTO acknowledged as much when it relea… Continue Reading
Details: A week after the Ministry of External Affairs announced that it would “license” the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and supply it to v… Continue Reading
Details: With the government likely to extend the nation-wide lockdown till the month end, the Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution minis… Continue Reading
Details: They are key to improve economic activity and liquidity, says Industries Ministry. In a letter to Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla on S… Continue Reading
Details: The government is “engaged” in talks with the U.S administration to reconsider President Donald Trump’s orders to impose visa sancti… Continue Reading
Details: People with disability have special issues in a situation like the spread of the novel coronavirus . People with disability are a diverse … Continue Reading
Details: Following COVID-19 lockdown, the Bihar Education Project Council has launched a mobile application and plans to book a slot with the All I… Continue Reading
Details: With the available evidence, it was believed that physical distancing was the best weapon to combat this little-known virus, transmitted t… Continue Reading
Details: A cascade of viral particles enters the body through the nose, eyes or mouth. Breathing carries some of these particles to the lower respi… Continue Reading
Details: The second is a messenger RNA vaccine developed by Moderna and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In RNA vaccines, the… Continue Reading
Details: Gadkari said. “As for the logistics of their return as and when the lockdown is eased, the guidelines will have to come from the State g… Continue Reading
Details: Migrants labourers have been among the worst hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most Indian migrants in the GCC countries are at the bottom… Continue Reading
Details: Lockdowns alone can’t be effective unless combined with other health measures, says the WHO Chief Scientist. We first got the viral sequ… Continue Reading
Details: The government is in the process of applying its mind on whether it should extend or lift in phases the 21-day lockdown that ends next wee… Continue Reading
Details: India has to chart its own strategy, whether it is in planning a staged release from the lockdown or in developing domestic capacity for m… Continue Reading
Details: The Centre’s decision to remove the tariff ceiling from renewable energy tenders will give the beleaguered industry a much-needed leg-up… Continue Reading
Details: Once the COVID-19 dust settles down, a new order will emerge in the job market, analysts say. Several new jobs in the field of health and … Continue Reading
Details: With cancellation of over 50% of the orders and a gloomy forecast for the future, 15 million job losses in exports are expected. About 15 … Continue Reading
Details: Ensure resumption of units, urges Department of Pharmaceuticals. A countrywide shortage of medicines and medical devices is likely in the … Continue Reading
Details: The government’s move won it many expressions of gratitude from countries that received clearances for their medical supplies, which had… Continue Reading
Details: The complaint highlighted the issue of mentally ill persons dependent for food and shelter on charities, temples and gurdwaras. The Nat… Continue Reading
Details: Though the market has recovered since and a wider production-sharing compromise is in the works, the general outlook remains bleak. In a r… Continue Reading
Details: Irrespective of whether India bowed to U.S The decision to reverse the ban was made public hours after U.S President Donald Trump warned o… Continue Reading
Details: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on free trade is yet to be completely understood. Biswajit Dhar and Nagesh Kumar spoke to Vikas Dhoot … Continue Reading
Details: The proposal submitted to the Indian Council of Medical Research says that the Transfusion Medicine Department of the Sree Chitra Tirunal … Continue Reading
Details: While States will come up with varying measures for support and relief, the Centre must lead this effort to ensure uniformity, optimisatio… Continue Reading
Details: The incident happened in Indore: “We have arrested six of the accused and the law has been invoked against four,” said Vivek Sharma… Continue Reading
Details: Central Government on Thursday announced that Rs.15,000 crore has been sanctioned to States under the India COVID-19 Emergency Response an… Continue Reading
Details: Its responsibility is to monitor threats to public health and inform and advise the member states. The fight against COVID-19 has to be on… Continue Reading
Details: In the first week of the lockdown, one of the 257 complaint calls that the National Commission for Women received was from a father in Raj… Continue Reading
Details: The suspension of the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme for two years to boost the funding available for the COVID-19 fi…