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Daily News6 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 06.08.2022 (RBI raises rates, vows nimble policy, Lessons for India from the Taiwan standoff, Addressing the challenges in new-age digital commerce, A fresh opportunity, Sticking to commitments)

1. RBI raises rates, vows nimble policy Policy repo rate raised by 50 basis points to 5.4% With inflation remaining at ‘elevated levels’, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India unanimously decided to raise the policy repo rate by 50 basis points (bps) to 5.4%. “Inflation is projected to remain above […]

Daily News5 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 05.08.2022 (The coal mining protests in the Hasdeo Aranya region, The Kansas win on abortion and its bearing on other U.S. states, Subscribers say there is surplus money in EPS, ‘Inflation driving 8% of GST revenue rise’, Waiting for democracy in Jammu and Kashmir, Sop or welfare debate, Is the declining rupee a crisis or an opportunity? )

1. The coal mining protests in the Hasdeo Aranya region Why has a private member resolution against coal mining in the Hasdeo forests been passed by the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly? On July 26, the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a private member resolution urging the Centre to cancel allocation of all coal mining blocks in […]

Daily News4 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 04.08.2022 (Understanding the provisions for foreign visits of State government Ministers, India to host UNSC meet on counterterrorism, Cabinet nod for climate pledges, Teaching the Taliban the wrong lessons, Public assets sale and the concern of ‘fiduciary duty’, Trade worries, Crossing the line, Reaping the demographic dividend)

1. Understanding the provisions for foreign visits of State government Ministers Why was Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal denied clearance to attend the World Cities Summit in Singapore? Delhi State Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot has moved court with a plea to set aside the need for travel clearances by the Centre for private foreign visits […]

Daily News2 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 02.08.2022 (AlphaFold: A tour de force in science, The dwindling fighter strength of the IAF, Bastar’s wheels of justice grind exceedingly slow, Manufacturing PMI hits 8-month high, Using a rupee route to get around a dominating dollar, Unpacking a conundrum, Language as barrier, Government’s own ‘gig workers’)

1. AlphaFold: A tour de force in science How have our methods of predicting protein structures changed with AI-based tools? What does this development signify for structural biology? DeepMind, a company owned by Google, announced this week that it had predicted the three-dimensional structures of more than 200 million proteins using AlphaFold. AlphaFold is an […]

Daily News1 Aug 2022

Daily Current Affairs 01.08.2022( The need for a distinction between blasphemy and hate speech, The technology powering hybrid electric vehicles, PMLA verdict an erosion of constitutional buffers, India’s ‘wheat waiver’ WTO demand is risk-fraught, Core constraints)

1. The need for a distinction between blasphemy and hate speech What is the history of Section 295 (A) of the Indian Penal Code? How should “blasphemy” be treated in the statute as opposed to hate speech? The legality of Section 295(A) was affirmed by a five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court. The court said […]

Daily News31 Jul 2022

Daily Current Affairs 31.07.2022(New e-waste rules threaten jobs-collection network, States fail to give Ministry details of elephant reserves, Two monkeypox cases in India not linked to Europe, Invasive frog and snake dent world economy, One step closer to precision cancer therapies, What has the SC said on PMLA’s validity?)

1. New e-waste rules threaten jobs, collection network System involving producer responsibility organisations dismantled; responsibility of recycling now with a handful of authorised recyclers A proposed framework by the Centre for regulating e-waste in India has upset a key link of India’s electronic waste collection system and threatens the livelihood of thousands of people. Electronic […]

Daily News30 Jul 2022

Daily Current Affairs 30.07.2022 (Core sector output expands by 12.7%, Jaishankar pushes for Chabahar port, Manas reserve has 2.4 tigresses for every tiger, We need to protect whistle blowers, Overcoming the Aryan-Dravidian divide, One-man rule)

1. Core sector output expands by 12.7% Crude oil output dropped 1.7% from a year earlier 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 an uptick in production. Coal, cement, electricity and refinery products rose 15% or more, compared with the […]

Daily News29 Jul 2022

Daily Current Affairs 29.07.2022 (After the referendum: The challenges of a power grab in Tunisia, Wildlife amendments to ‘save entrepreneurs from harassment’, Govt. worried about teen pregnancies, A growing disengagement with Gandhi’s ideas, What numbers do not reveal about tiger conservation, Narrow view, Is the Environmental Performance Index really faulty?)

1. After the referendum: The challenges of a power grab in Tunisia What led to the political turmoil in Tunisia? Why did President Kais Saied bring in the new Constitution and what are its prominent features? The Arab Spring protests began in Tunisia in December 2010, leading to the fall of the regime of Zine […]

Daily News28 Jul 2022

Daily Current Affairs 28.07.2022 (Warehousing Act, The poor state of India’s fiscal federalism, Death by hooch, A future free of hepatitis)

1. Warehousing Act However, the SKM fears it will help corporate houses gain more control The Union Food and Public Distribution Ministry has suggested major amendments to the Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act of 2007. While the Ministry says that the aim is to help farmers get access to the services of quality warehouses, the […]

Daily News27 Jul 2022

Daily Current Affairs 27.07.2022 (Power tariff revisions and the state of DISCOMs, India adds five more Ramsar sites, Whose GDP is it anyway?, Seeking to destroy India’s civil society)

1. Power tariff revisions and the state of DISCOMs Why are power distribution companies swimming in losses? Why are States reluctant to hike power prices? On July 13, the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) filed a general retail power tariff revision petition with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission proposing to hike power […]

Daily News26 Jul 2022

Daily Current Affairs 25.07.2022 (The private sector boost in India’s space industry, The latest guidelines on arrests and bail orders, Studying menstrual disturbances post COVID-19 vaccination, A global order caught up in a swirl of chaos, Learning lessons, Backsliding on climate action)

1. The private sector boost in India’s space industry How does a strong space sector contribute to overall development? Why are private players being encouraged to invest? Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay Kumar Sood stated earlier this month that the government would soon come up with a new space policy to increase private sector participation in […]

Daily News25 Jul 2022

Daily Current Affairs 25.07.2022 (A recap of the monkeypox outbreak, The challenges of fiberisation ahead of India’s 5G deployment, Study on snow leopard and its prey, China launches second space station module, Weighing in on India’s investment-led revival, Adding digital layers of indignity)

1. A recap of the monkeypox outbreak By declaring monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, how does the WHO plan to tackle and contain its spread? Ever since the first case of monkeypox in humans was identified in 1970, in the present Democratic Republic of the Congo, the virus has become endemic in […]