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Daily Current Affairs – 12 August 2021
The day’s news that matters for Prelims and Mains, organised by GS paper, with practice questions.
Daily Current AFfairs 04.08.2021 (Poverty in India is on the rise again)
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1.Poverty in India is on the rise again In the absence of CES data, the Periodic Labour Force Survey shows a rise in the absolute number of the poor India has not released its Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) data since 2011-12. Normally a CES is conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSO) every five […]
Daily Current Affairs 03.08.2021 (SC questions States on cases under 66A, A disconcerting picture behind the headline numbers, Criminalising welfare issues)
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1.SC questions States on cases under 66A Citizens are still being booked under it, says plea The Supreme Court on Monday asked the States to respond to a petition that stated citizens continued to get booked and prosecuted under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act for expressing themselves freely on social media. Section 66A […]
Daily Current Affairs 02.08.2021 (Pegasus, a blemish on democracy, Clinical trials of ‘Ashwagandha’ soon)
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1.Pegasus, a blemish on democracy The hour has come to oppose excessive oppression through serious political action Pegasus, the mythical winged horse from Greek mythology, is known to have allowed Bellerophon, the Corinthian hero, to ride him in order to defeat the monstrous Chimera before flying off to the heavens where he was turned by […]
Daily Current Affairs 01.08.2021 (India all set for UNSC presidency term, ‘Erroneous to conclude we have attained herd immunity’, Stellar mid-life crisis: What ails the middle-aged Sun?, Ruins of an Indus Valley civilisation site – Dholavira)
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1.India all set for UNSC presidency term Meetings to focus on maritime security, counterterrorism and peacekeeping As it begins its month-long presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), India is set to hold high-level meetings and briefings to bring focus to its three priorities: maritime security, counterterrorism and peacekeeping, said India’s Permanent Representative to […]
Daily Current Affairs 31.07.2021 (Visualising the Himalaya with other coordinates, Govt. introduces Bill on insurance firms)
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1.Visualising the Himalaya with other coordinates Looking at it only through the prism of geopolitics and security concerns ignores its other crucial frameworks A conceptual audit of questions related to geopolitics and security concerns while talking or thinking about the Himalaya is perhaps long overdue. There is no gainsaying the truth that we have been […]
Daily Current AFfairs 30.07.2021 (The wings of Pegasus, the epoch of cyberweapons, The long road to winning the battle against trafficking, LS passes 2 Bills without debate)
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1.The wings of Pegasus, the epoch of cyberweapons With their use not only during a conflict but even during peacetime, matters have reached a tipping point A raging controversy across the world on the misuse of Pegasus spyware — a great deal of which is mired in facts, suppositions, false trails, allegations and counter-allegations, but […]