Topic

Daily News

Daily News6 Jul 2022

Daily Current Affairs 06.07.2022 (Centre asks States to boost paddy sowing, Navy eyes govt. route to buy carrier-based jets, PMI pegs services growth at 11-year high, The relentless march of FPIs to the exit gate, The status of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia, Indian aviation needs a strong and steady tailwind, Handcuffing, a judicial tap, and the long arm of the law, A matter of import)

1. Centre asks States to boost paddy sowing There has been a 27% fall in the sown area to 43.45 lakh hectares till July 1 this season, show data The Centre has asked the State governments to take steps to increase the sowing of paddy in the wake of reports that the sown area has […]

Daily News5 Jul 2022

Daily Current Affairs 05.07.2022 (Myanmar hosts first regional meeting since coup, Enforcing the single-use plastic ban, The need for space sustainability, UPI: the dawn of digital fintech nirvana, A chaotic world, the perils of multilateralism, India needs to scale up direct nutrition interventions, The problem with our university vision, Right intent, confusing content)

1. Myanmar hosts first regional meeting since coup China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and counterparts from Mekong Delta nations take part Myanmar’s military government on Monday hosted the first high-level regional meeting since the Army took power last year with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and counterparts from Mekong Delta nations. State broadcaster MRTV reported […]

Daily News1 Jul 2022

Daily Current Affairs 01.07.2022 (Concern over shortage of leprosy drug in private sector, Banks have capital to buffer any shock, The free fall of the rupee, A road safety quartet and the road ahead, Do not weaken the anti-defection law, Home and abroad, Should endorsers be held responsible for claims in advertising?)

1. Concern over shortage of leprosy drug in private sector Doctors write to Ministry seeking urgent intervention in restoring supply of Clofazimine to fight the dreaded disease Clofazimine, a key drug for treatment of leprosy, which had been in short supply in the Indian market for several months, is now “not available”, with the situation […]

Daily News30 Jun 2022

Daily Current Affairs 30.06.2022 (63,000 farm co-ops to be digitised, The anti-defection law — political facts, legal fiction, The Indian challenge in Afghanistan, A direct approach to conservation, How Turkey made peace with Sweden and Finland joining NATO)

1. 63,000 farm co-ops to be digitised Computerisation will link all credit societies to a common accounting system The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday approved a proposal to digitise around 63,000 primary agricultural credit societies (PACS). Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said that PACS are the smallest unit in the […]

Daily News28 Jun 2022

Daily Current Affairs 28.06.2022 (‘Centre may raise small savings rates’, States, freebies and the costs of fiscal profligacy, Complicated, volatile, the descriptors of Israel’s politics, From higher to hire education, Modi’s two summits: UAE trumps G7, When defection is a mere detour for an MLA)

1. ‘Centre may raise small savings rates’ Economists cite rising G-Sec yields — to which such rates are linked — as reason for optimism Households could get some relief this week as economists expect the Centre to raise the interest rates paid on small savings schemes for the July to September 2022 quarter, with the […]

Daily News27 Jun 2022

Daily Current Affairs 27.06.2022 (Should India worry about endemicity of COVID-19?, G7 proposes $600-bn global infra plan to rival China, Making sense of New Delhi’s Taliban rapprochement, Keep up the pressure, Regressive, inhumane, Bringing MSMEs into global value chains, Indian laws on abortions, Understanding the Supreme Court verdict on the Zakia Jafri protest petition, Implications of India’s new VPN rules)

1. Should India worry about endemicity of COVID-19? ‘At the moment we have to calibrate when we have to launch an outbreak-like response… vaccination should remain a public health activity’ Has COVID-19 become endemic or not, that is the question. While the world over, the debate rages on whether COVID-19 has reached an endemic phase, […]

Daily News24 Jun 2022

Daily Current Affairs 24.06.2022 (Group wants new order on MGNREGA workers revoked, Govt. said to aim to keep deficit at 6.7%, Majoritarian politics, Muslim marginality, A turning point for Ukraine and its women’s rights, The problems plaguing thermal power generators, Open network for digital commerce)

1. Group wants new order on MGNREGA workers revoked Rule mandates recording attendance on a mobile app The Union Rural Development Ministry must withdraw its order to discontinue manual attendance for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) work sites with more than 20 workers and use a mobile phone-based application, National Mobile Monitoring […]

Daily News23 Jun 2022

Daily Current Affairs 23.06.2022 (Four new corals recorded from Indian waters, ‘Goal is preservation of Tibetan culture, not Independence’, Israel uncovers remains of mosque, Digital wearables can expose users to cyberattacks: IEEE, The role of caste in economic transformation, Heal the nation before healing the rest of the world, Towards a single low tax regime)

1. Four new corals recorded from Indian waters The species newly found off Andaman and Nicobar Islands belong to same family Scientists have recorded four species of corals for the first time from Indian waters. These new species of azooxanthellate corals were found from the waters off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The azooxanthellate corals […]

Daily News22 Jun 2022

Daily Current Affairs 22.06.2022 (The judicial validity of the Talaq-e-Hasan mode of divorce, The absurdity of the anti-defection law, A wish list for reform in India’s higher judiciary, It is time India plans a hub airport flight path, Progress without limits, A new global standard for AI ethics)

1. The judicial validity of the Talaq-e-Hasan mode of divorce Does this form of annulment have basis in the Quran? What are the different modes of divorce under the Muslim Personal Law? A petition filed by Benazir Hina, a Ghaziabad-based woman, seeks to make the prescribed Islamic way of divorce Talaq-e-Hasan unconstitutional as it is […]

Daily News21 Jun 2022

Daily Current Affairs 21.06.2022 (Australia seeks to revitalise Indo-Pacific ties, India faces near-term challenges: FinMin, The choice is narrowing the circle or widening it, An unjust pursuit, At the centre of job creation, El Salvador’s Bitcoin bet, Dutch disease)

1. Australia seeks to revitalise Indo-Pacific ties Deputy PM on a three-day visit, says New Delhi is one of Canberra’s closest security partners India is one of Australia’s closest security partners and the government is focused on revitalising Australia’s historically deep engagement with our partners across the Indo-Pacific, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of […]

Daily News20 Jun 2022

Daily Current Affairs 20.06.2022 (‘India, Bangladesh should work on river management’, Gear up for more headwinds, The EPI may rankle but India can recast policies, Revisiting social justice under the Dravidian model, Monsoon jitters, Recognising the ‘compulsory’ woman worker, Indian interests at the WTO Ministerial Conference)

1. ‘India, Bangladesh should work on river management’ Ready to extend assistance in managing flood: Jaishankar India and Bangladesh should work together for comprehensive management of rivers, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said here on Sunday. Delivering opening remarks at the seventh round of India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission, Mr. Jaishankar welcomed his counterpart A.K. Abdul […]

Daily News19 Jun 2022

Daily Current Affairs 19.06.2022 (PM launches a slew of projects in Gujarat, What drives sustained growth of Monkeypox cases, Quantum diamond microscope to image magnetic fields, How marine heatwave fuelled super cyclone Amphan)

1. PM launches a slew of projects in Gujarat 357-km dedicated freight corridor track worth over ₹16,000 crore is among the works flagged off Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched schemes and projects worth ₹21,000 crore in his home State Gujarat that goes to the Assembly polls in six months. In his fifth visit […]