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Daily Current Affairs – 21 May 2021
The day’s news that matters for Prelims and Mains, organised by GS paper, with practice questions.
Daily CUrrent AFfairs 18.05.2021 (‘Job losses bode ill for the economy’, DRDO’s drug launched for emergency use)
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1. ‘Job losses bode ill for the economy’ April’s labour participation rate was lower than in March 2020: CMIE chief Vyas Rising unemployment, including among the salaried class, and shrinking real incomes have led to a lack of demand that bodes ill for the economy, said Mahesh Vyas, managing director at the Centre for Monitoring […]
Daily Current Affairs 17.05.2021 (UNSC calls for end to violence in Gaza, India calls for ‘immediate de-escalation’ of hostilities, Adoption issues to the fore as COVID-19 leaves many orphaned)
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1. UNSC calls for end to violence in Gaza Its chief warns that crisis could plunge region into an ‘uncontainable security and humanitarian crisis’ Israeli strikes killed at least 42 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the worst daily death toll yet in the almost week-long clashes, as the UN Security Council met amid […]
Daily Current Affairs 16.05.2021 (Mars landing gives China’s space programme a leg-up, Violence rocks Gaza, Israel and West Bank, New skink species from Western Ghats, Mucormycosis in COVID-19 patients)
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1. Elephant carcasses found in 2 groups The ‘freak’ lightning theory being corroborated based on weather reports: govt. The carcasses of the 18 elephants reportedly killed in lightning strikes in Nagaon district of central Assam on May 13 were found in two groups 1 km apart, an official statement said Saturday. The State government also […]
Daily Current Affairs 15.05.2021 (Asha workers struggle with pandemic surveillance in rural Uttar Pradesh, 186 elephants killed on rail tracks in over 10 years, U.S. slider turtles pose a threat in northeast, What is Iron Dome)
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1. Asha workers struggle with pandemic surveillance in rural Uttar Pradesh They lack adequate protective gear and monitoring kits for door-to-door visits “People don’t take us seriously. Why would they, when I cannot even record their temperature and oxygen level for them,” says Veermati Singh, standing at her door in Nindemau, a village in Unnao. […]
Daily Current Affairs 14.05.2021 (App to view SC proceedings launched, OCIs stung by Home Ministry notification, Israel-Palestine fighting escalates, Relax FCRA norms, ease relief flow, says Nasscom)
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1. App to view SC proceedings launched Actively considering plan to telecast proceedings live, says CJI N.V. Ramana Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Thursday said he was “actively considering” the proposal to telecast live the proceedings of the Supreme Court. The CJI, however, said concrete steps in this regard would be taken only […]