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OPERATION BLUE STAR
OPERATION BLUE STAR
1. Context
June 6, 2023 marks 39 years of Operation Bluestar, in which the Indian army stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindra...
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07-Jun 2023
INDIA-US DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP
INDIA-US DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP
1. Context
Recently, India asked the United States to remove the "stringent hurdles" existing in the form of complicated rules and regulations in the sales of militar...
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07-Jun 2023
KOSOVO AND SERBIA
KOSOVO AND SERBIA
1. Context
In the aftermath of one of the worst escalations of tensions between Kosovo and Serbia in at least a decade, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) last week s...
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07-Jun 2023
ROLE OF GOVERNOR IN THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITIEs
ROLE OF GOVERNOR IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES
1. Context
The Tamil Nadu Assembly passed two Bills that seek to transfer the Governor’s power in appointing Vice-Chancellors of 13 state universities to t...
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06-Jun 2023
SCHEDULED TRIBES IN INDIA
SCHEDULED TRIBES IN INDIA
1. Context
Kudmis claim that during the British colonial rule, they were considered a primitive tribe like Mundas, Oraons and Santhals.
But when the ST list was prep...
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06-Jun 2023
HIGGS BOSON
HIGGS BOSON
1. Context
Recently, physicists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particles masher at CERN, in Europe, reported that they had detected a Higgs boson decaying into a Z boso...
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06-Jun 2023
ADVERSE POSESSION
ADVERSE POSSESSION
1.Context
The Law Commission, headed by former Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court Ritu Raj Awasthi and comprising retired Kerala High Court judge KT Sankaran, said in its...
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06-Jun 2023
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2023
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2023
1. Context
Since the early 20th century, plastics have become a ubiquitous part of human life, despite their many adverse impacts on the environment.
This ye...
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06-Jun 2023
TRADE MOMENTUM
TRADE MOMENTUM
1. Context
Mired in a slowing economy, inflationary setting and tighter monetary controls world over, India's merchandise exports shrunk 12.7 per cent on a year-on-year basis to $34....
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06-Jun 2023
NORTH KOREA SPACE PROGRAMME
NORTH KOREA'S SPACE PROGRAMME
1. Context
On May 31, 2023 a North Korean military reconnaissance satellite Malligyong1 was launched through a new type of rocket named Chollima1. The satellite is...
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05-Jun 2023
FRICTION POINTS IN LAC
FRICTION POINTS IN LAC
1. Context
As the 2020 standoff in Eastern Ladakh marks three years, India and China are far from achieving the objective of disengagement and de-escalation and restoration o...
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05-Jun 2023
KAVACH SYSTEM KAVACH SYSTEM
1. Context
The death of over 288 passengers in the ghastly train accident on June 2 at Bahanaga Bazaar railway station in the Balasore district of Odisha has brought into sharp focu...
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05-Jun 2023
LIGHTWEIGHT PAYMENTS
LIGHTWEIGHT PAYMENTS FOR EMERGENCIES
1. Context
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has conceptualised a lightweight payment and settlements system, which it is calling a “bunker” equivalent of ...
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05-Jun 2023
SALT CAVERN BASED STRATEGIC OIL RESERVES
SALT CAVERN-BASED STRATEGIC OIL RESERVES
1. Context
Government-owned engineering consultancy firm Engineers India (EIL) is studying the prospects and feasibility of developing salt cavern-base...
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05-Jun 2023
ANAEMIA POLICY
ANAEMIA POLICY
1. Context
Questions related to anaemia are slated to be dropped from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) is scheduled to begin on July 6.
2. Key points
The omission comes...
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05-Jun 2023