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MINISTRY OF TRUTH
MINISTRY OF TRUTH
1. Context
Despite a barrage of criticism and concerns, the Centre has decided to create a regulatory regime that will allow a fact-checking body it appoints to label content rela...
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12-Apr 2023
APPLICATION SUPPORTED BY A BLOCKED AMOUNT (ASBA)
ASBA
1. Context
The capital markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), last week approved a framework for an Application Supported by a Blocked Amount (ASBA) like facil...
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11-Apr 2023
MUGHALS (1526 - 1707)
EMPIRES BUILDERS OF MEDIEVAL INDIA
1.Context
Within hours of the National Council of Educational Research and Training’s (NCERT) decision to remove a chapter on the Mughals from the history te...
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11-Apr 2023
TROPOSPHERIC EMISSIONS MONITORING OF POLLUTION
TEMPO
1. Context
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Florida, carrying a new NASA device that can track air pollution over North America.
2. Key points
The Tropospheric Emissio...
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11-Apr 2023
WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION (WTO)
WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION (WTO)
1. Context
After days of protracted negotiations, the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization on June 17, 2022, agreed to a series of deals rela...
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11-Apr 2023
BIODIVERSITY LOSS AFFECTS HUMAN HEALTH
BIODIVERSITY LOSS AFFECTS HUMAN HEALTH
1. Context
Animals, plants and fungi biodiversity holds a treasure trove of chemicals that can be used to treat diseases from malaria to cancer. But its loss ...
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11-Apr 2023
LIGO IN INDIA
LIGO IN INDIA
1. Context
The government has given the final go-ahead to India's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory or LIGO, project, clearing the way for the construction of the co...
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10-Apr 2023
POPULATION BOMB
POPULATION BOMB
1. Context
On March 27, 2023, Beniamino Callegari, associate professor at Kristiania University College, Oslo, and a member of the Earth4All modeling team, and Per Espen Stoknes, ...
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10-Apr 2023
CHINA'S STANDARDISATION
CHINA'S STANDARDISATION
1. Context
On April 2, 2023, the Chinese government announced it would “standardize” the names of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh. The Ministry of Civil Affairs in Beijing ...
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10-Apr 2023
INDIA'S SECOND SPACE AGE
INDIA'S SECOND SPACE AGE
1. Background
The Space Age began in 1957 with the launch of satellite Sputnik 1 and in 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the world's first person in space.
Neil Armstr...
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10-Apr 2023
EL NINO IN 2023
EL NINO IN 2023
1.Context
India has had four consecutive years of good monsoons and overall rainfall from 2019 to 2022.In these four years, the country as a whole received an average area-we...
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10-Apr 2023
REPO RATE PAUSE
REPO RATE PAUSE
1.Context
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the repo rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent amid concerns over the global banking crisis
Even as the central bank expects retail in...
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10-Apr 2023
COASTAL AQUACULTURE BILL 2023
COASTAL AQUACULTURE BILL 2023
1. Context
The Government recently introduced the Coastal Aquaculture Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2023, through its Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and D...
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08-Apr 2023
NATIONAL CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
NATIONAL CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
1. Context
Recently the Ministry of Education released the pre-draft of the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for school education for public feedback on the recomm...
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08-Apr 2023
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (WHO)
WHO
1.Context
In April 1945, politicians from around the world gathered in San Francisco to establish the United Nations
At the meeting, leaders from Brazil and China suggested the creation o...
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08-Apr 2023