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LOCKBIT
LOCKBIT
1. Context
Recently, for the first, reports emerged that LockBit ransomware was found to be targeting Mac devices. Cybercriminals have developed new ransomware encryptors designed to target ...
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24-Apr 2023
INDIA'S MINERAL SUPPLY CHAIN
INDIA'S MINERAL SUPPLY CHAIN
1. Context
A recent working paper from the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) extends the earlier minerals assessment for 23 minerals by assessing the criti...
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24-Apr 2023
CRYPTO LEGISLATION
CRYPTO LEGISLATION
1. Context
The European Parliament, the legislative body of the 27country block European Union, has approved the world’s first set of comprehensive rules to bring largely unre...
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24-Apr 2023
RULE OF LAW
RULE OF LAW
1. Introduction
The rule of law is the political philosophy that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including l...
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24-Apr 2023
JUVENILE
JUVENILE
1. Context
The National Commission for Protection of Children (NCPCR) has recently issued guidelines for conducting a preliminary assessment by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) under Secti...
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24-Apr 2023
GLOBAL CLIMATE REPORT 2022
GLOBAL CLIMATE REPORT
1. Context
The world’s glaciers melted at dramatic speed last year, with global sea levels rising at double the pace they did two decades ago, a UN climate report said on...
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24-Apr 2023
HAKKI-PIKKI
HAKKI-PIKKI
1. Context
More than 181 members of the Hakki Pikki tribal community from Karnataka are stuck in violence-hit Sudan, even as the government is making efforts to bring them back.
2. Abo...
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22-Apr 2023
INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT 1955
CITIZENSHIP
1. Introduction
Citizenship is an allegiance of person to a state. Each state determines the conditions under which it will recognize persons as its citizens, and the conditions un...
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22-Apr 2023
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION THROUGH AI
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)
1. Context
New tools like ChatGPT have generated a huge amount of interest in artificial intelligence in the past few months. But AI-pow...
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22-Apr 2023
KONG YIJI
KONG YIJI
1. Context
As the curtain drew on this year's two sessions, the Chinese state media was busy accusing the country's millions of unemployed university graduates of being picky and not givi...
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22-Apr 2023
ASSAM ARUNACHAL BORDER DISPUTE
ASSAM ARUNACHAL BORDER DISPUTE
1. Context
Last month, just days after Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma met with his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart, Pema Khandu, to discuss a solution to th...
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22-Apr 2023
CIVIL SERVICES DAY
CIVIL SERVICES DAY
1. Context
The date, April 21, chosen for the celebration of National Civil Service Day, commemorates the day when Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Independent India's first home mini...
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21-Apr 2023
INDIA-DENMARK RELATIONS
INDIA-DENMARK RELATIONS
1. Context
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently held a telephone conversation with his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen. The two leaders reviewed the progress of the Ind...
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21-Apr 2023
NATIONAL POPULATION REGISTER (NPR) NATIONAL POPULATION REGISTER (NPR)
1. Context
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to conduct Census 2021 and update the National Population Register (NPR). While the Census will be c...
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21-Apr 2023
QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
1. Context
For the first time in South Asia, Indian scientists working in the Garbh-Ini programme, an interdisciplinary group for advanced research on birth out...
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21-Apr 2023