1. India rejects J&J’s attempt to extend patent on TB drug In a victory for patients fighting for wider access to the crucial anti-tuberculosis drug Bedaquiline, the Indian Patent Office on Thursday rejected U.S. pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to extend its monopoly on manufacturing the drug in India beyond July 2023. J&J’s primary […]
1. Govt. will attempt to open corridor to Sharda Peeth in PoK for devotees: Shah The Maa Sharda Devi temple in Kupwara, which was inaugurated by Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday. It could be on the lines of the Kartarpur corridor in Punjab, says Union Home Minister after inaugurating the Maa Sharda Devi temple […]
1. Japan PM Kishida to visit India today; G-7, G-20, Indo-Pacific ties on agenda Fumio Kishida Synchronising plans for the G-7 summit in Hiroshima in May and the G-20 summit in Delhi in September will be on the agenda for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s 24-hour visit to Delhi on Monday, a senior Japanese official […]
1. India suits up for deepest dive yet All eyes: MATSYA’s journey will be filmed by 12 cameras, fitted along the submersible to capture a 360-degree view of the descent. NIOT is set to spearhead a 6,000-metre dive into the Indian Ocean, a mission to explore marine biodiversity and potential of the seabed The influence of […]
1. Maharashtra, U.P. among 7 States to get textile parks Centre expects the parks to attract investments worth ₹70,000 crore, generate jobs for 20 lakh people and create an integrated value chain for the sector, says Textiles Minister Piyush Goyal The Centre has selected sites in Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and […]
1. Wait continues in T.N. for Centre’s Pennaiyar tribunal In contention: T.N. opposes work on a check-dam across the Markandeya, a Pennaiyar tributary, by Karnataka. Three-month deadline fixed by the Supreme Court expired last week, and the State is awaiting Union government’s next course of action; efforts to settle the dispute through talks had failed With […]
1. RBI has permitted banks from 18 countries to trade in rupee: Centre Trade in local currencies have been mooted as a solution to avoid the current wave of wartime international sanctions. The central bank granted nod to domestic and foreign authorised dealer banks in 60 cases for opening special vostro accounts for settling payment in […]
1. Same-sex union can rock societal values: Centre Any change in human relationship should come from legislature, not court, Centre says in its affidavit in response to a Supreme Court decision to examine petitions on same-sex marriage The Centre, in an affidavit in the Supreme Court, has frowned upon same-sex marriage while invoking the “accepted […]
1. Sickle cell screening meets only 1% of target, hurting ambitious elimination goal With barely two weeks left in the fiscal year, the Health Ministry has completed a minuscule 1% of its ambitious target to scan one crore people for sickle cell disease in 2022-23. The Ministry is starkly behind schedule, having screened just a […]
1. U.S. is trying to ‘encircle’ China: Foreign Minister America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy seeks to target China through creation of ‘exclusive blocs’, provokes confrontation and tries to create an Asia-Pacific version of NATO, says Qin Gang China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Tuesday accused the United States of attempting “to encircle China” through its Indo-Pacific strategy, […]
1. IAF choppers to help contain smoke from Kochi dumpyard Gasping for air: Vehicles moving through a flyover as toxic haze from a waste dump fire covers Kochi on Monday. While the fire was completely doused, smoke continues to rise from the garbage heaps; Justice Devan Ramachandran writes to the Chief Justice of the High Court […]
1. ‘Regulator’s proposal on Rajasthan power lines flouts SC orders, threatens bustard’ The population of the critically endangered species has dipped to less than 150. In a move that helps solar power projects in Rajasthan but may hinder efforts to make the region safe for the endangered Great Indian Bustard, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) […]
1. With overfishing, great seahorses bolt from Coromandel Found vulnerable: The great seahorse, one of the nine species found in the Indian coastal ecosystem, is among the eight species tagged ‘vulnerable’. Extensive fishing off the Coromandel coast could be forcing the great seahorse to migrate laboriously toward Odisha. Fishing is less intense in the Bay of […]
1. Select Central staff can opt for Old Pension Scheme Govt. allows one-time option for those who applied for jobs advertised before Dec. 22, 2003, the day National Pension Scheme was notified, but joined service in 2004, when NPS came into effect In a significant decision, the government has decided to give a one-time option to […]
1. 1,300-year-old Buddhist stupa found in Odisha’s Jajpur Initial assessment showed that the stupa could be 4.5-metre tall and may belong to the 7th or 8th century. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) stumbled upon a 1,300-year-old stupa right in the middle of a mining site in Odisha’s Jajpur district from where Khondalite stones were […]
1. SC asks govt. what it has done to end manual scavenging The Supreme Court has directed the government to place on record within six weeks the steps taken by it to implement its nearly 10-year-old judgment to end manual scavenging and prevent future generations from the “inhuman practice” while making entry into sewers without […]
1. Man-animal conflict: Kerala to conduct elephant, tiger surveys The Kerala Forest Department is set to launch surveys to enumerate wild elephant and tiger populations as part of its efforts to mitigate man-animal conflict in the State. Forest Minister A.K. Saseendran said the field-level enumeration of wild elephants in the State would be held from […]
1. It’s Centre’s call, says SC on menstrual leave policy Petitioner can approach the Ministry of Women and Child Development, says Bench, which also flagged the concern that such leave can act as a ‘disincentive’ for those who want to hire women The Supreme Court said on Friday that there are different “dimensions” to menstrual […]
1. 60% of India’s voters linked Aadhaar to voter ID: RTI While Tripura leads the way with over 92% of voters having provided their Aadhaar details to EC, Gujarat and Delhi are at the bottom of the pile; southern States perform above national average Over 60% of India’s 94.5 crore voters have linked their Aadhaar […]
1. India remains a ‘bright spot’, to contribute 15% of global growth in 2023: IMF India continues to remain a relative “bright spot” in the world economy, and will alone contribute 15% of the global growth in 2023, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said. While digitisation pulled out the world’s fifth-largest economy […]
Current affairs decide a large share of marks in UPSC Prelims, Mains and the Interview, and in TNPSC exams. Every morning our faculty publish the day’s important news from The Hindu, PIB, Indian Express and other sources — explained, organised by GS paper, and linked to the syllabus.
What each daily post includes
The key news of the day, grouped by GS Paper 1, 2, 3 and 4
Background and the static syllabus topic each story connects to
