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Daily News27 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 27.08.2022 (Centre picks 75 tribal districts for TB intervention project, A draconian law that needs to disappear, Puttaswamy and the fading promise of a right, Murder in the sewer)

1. Centre picks 75 tribal districts for TB intervention project Move comes after door-to-door screening of over 68,000 villages in tribal districts After having run an active case-finding campaign to detect instances of Tuberculosis (TB) among tribal populations over the past six months, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and the Central TB Division of the […]

Daily News26 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 26.08.2022 (SC to review PMLA order on two aspects, India, Bangladesh discuss river water sharing issues, ‘Freebies’, a judicial lead and a multi-layered issue, Rainbow of hope, Should India change its policy on the Rohingya?)

1. SC to review PMLA order on two aspects Judgment had found no reason for ECIR to be shared with accused, shifts burden of proof on them The Supreme Court on Thursday prima facie agreed to reconsider two aspects of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) upheld by its judgment on July 27, which […]

Daily News25 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 25.08.2022 (The Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022, The ‘tomato flu’ outbreak and the Centre’s advisory, SC asks Centre to expand food security coverage, Heading the G20 and New Delhi’s choices, Making out a case for the other UBI in India, Keep it simple, Strangling Tunisia’s democracy)

1. The Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 Why is an amendment to the already existing Indian Competition Act necessary? As the dynamics of the market changes due to technological advancements, artificial intelligence, and the increasing importance of factors other than price, amendments became necessary to sustain and promote market competition. The long-awaited Bill to amend the […]

Daily News23 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 23.08.2022 (‘Kerala Savari’, India’s first online taxi service as a public option, ‘Tomato flu’ detected among children in India, says Lancet, Loan defaulters, entities under probe need NOC to invest overseas, The road to China’s 20th Party Congress, Factoring in the risk, Not centres of learning yet)

1. ‘Kerala Savari’, India’s first online taxi service as a public option Why is the Kerala government launching its own app-based taxi service? How is it different from existing private players? Kerala has soft launched ‘Kerala Savari’, to ensure decent service to passengers along with fair remuneration to auto-taxi workers. It is operated by the […]

Daily News22 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 22.08.2022(Facing govt. action, Huawei to dial down R&D operations,Look-out notice against 8 in Delhi excise policy case, Welfare schemes have not made T.N. poor, says DMK, Bihar and the evolution of Mandal politics, What next on data protection?,A row over gender-neutral uniforms,‘Forcible’ Aadhaar-voter ID linking, ‘India-China ties can’t be a one-way street’, Freebies come at a price: economist)

1. Facing govt. action, Huawei to dial down R&D operations Decision comes after I-T searches and probes into ‘national security’ aspects Suhasini Haidar Mini Tejaswi NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU Faced with income tax searches, exclusion from 5G telecom trials and increasing restrictions on research collaborations, Chinese telecom major Huawei is planning to downsize operations at its […]

Daily News21 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 21.08.2022 (Improving rice yield with an additional gene, What is India’s policy on the Rohingya?, Corbevax booster should be a vaccine of choice)

1. Improving rice yield with an additional gene Adding a second copy of one of its own genes has boosted the yield of a Chinese rice variety by up to 40% The Green Revolution of the 1960s brought about a marked improvement in the yield of agricultural crops such as rice and wheat. It was […]

Daily News20 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 20.08.2022 (Indian team deliberating on ocean diversity pact, Resolution confuses more than it clarifies: MPC’s Varma argued, From darkness to solar-powered light, The injustice of exceptionalism, End this asymmetrical conflict over ‘freebies’)

1. Indian team deliberating on ocean diversity pact A key aspect of the agreement is deciding on the rights of companies that undertake exploration for marine resources A delegation from India and other member countries of the United Nations are in New York to deliberate on a one-of-its-kind agreement to conserve marine biodiversity in the […]

Daily News18 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 18.08.2022 (What is causing Arctic warming?, ‘Delhi’s PM2.5 levels worst in the world’, Credit guarantee plan expanded to aid hospitality, related sectors, The geopolitics of the Fourth Taiwan Crisis, This maritime partnership is still a work in progress, Finding a home, The Centre vs State tussle over IAS postings)

1. What is causing Arctic warming? Why is the Greenland ice sheet melting at an alarming rate? How is it affecting the monsoons? Due to global warming, any change in the surface air temperature and the net radiation balance tends to produce larger changes at the north and south poles. These changes are more pronounced […]

Daily News16 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 16.08.2022 (The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, The controversial visit of a Chinese vessel to Hambantota, Big Tech’s talent conundrum, 3D-printed cornea put to test in a rabbit, The fragility of the Northeast’s integration, The temples that Jawaharlal Nehru built, The shackles of 1861 need to go)

1. The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh What are the various unresolved issues between Armenia and Azerbaijan which has led to consistent ceasefire violations? The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains stalemated despite several ceasefire agreements. Both Baku and Yerevan claim absolute historic ownership of the region which is located within the boundaries of Azerbaijan but populated largely by ethnic […]

Daily News14 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 14.08.2022 (‘Subsidies on power will continue’, Punjab bans use of 10 insecticides, Walking a tightrope in messaging transmission routes, How lactose tolerance in humans became widespread, HIV drugs shortage is a challenge to ending AIDS in India, Have coastal ecosystem norms been violated?, Digital lending, What is the threat from zoonotic diseases?)

1. ‘Subsidies on power will continue’ Power Secretary says State governments will have the discretion to continue concessions The Centre’s move to introduce the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022 has stoked protests by Opposition parties and trade unions on the grounds that it violated the Constitutional principles of federalisation and was a step towards privatising the […]

Daily News13 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 13.08.2022 (‘29 elephant poaching cases in 3 years’, Essential Commodities Act invoked to rein in tur dal price, Industrial output growth slows, Independence in the words of an American, Moving policy away from population control, No holds barred, Never-ending fight)

1. ‘29 elephant poaching cases in 3 years’ The period also saw 90 cases of seizure of tusks/ivory, Forest Ministry tells Lok Sabha In the past three years, 90 cases of seizure of elephant tusks/ivory have been reported in India along with 29 cases of poaching of elephants. The data were shared by the Ministry […]

Daily News11 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 11.08.2022 (The new U.S. Bill on climate action, The uproar over the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022, RBI targets unfair methods in digital lending with new norms, COVID-19, arguably, has become endemic in India, A new global vision for G20, The grammar of VIP security)

1. The new U.S. Bill on climate action Does the new Bill completely leave out fossil fuel industries? What are the listed incentives to switch to clean energy? On August 7, the U.S. Senate approved a bill titled the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) 2022. The IRA has a special focus on climate, healthcare, and tax […]