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INDIA'S ROLE IN KOREAN WAR
INDIA'S ROLE IN KOREAN WAR
1. Context
In its G20 year, India has declared it will represent the voice of the “Global South” for peace. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message to Russian Pr...
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05-Apr 2023
OPEN SOURCE
OPEN SOURCE
1. Context
Elon Musk has partly delivered on his promise of making Twitter's algorithm open source.
On April 1, 2023, the microblogging site's recommendation code was made public. Deve...
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05-Apr 2023
MONETARY POLICY ON INTEREST RATES MONETARY POLICY ON INEQUALITY
1. Context
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of India's central's bank, the RBI will deliberate whether interest rates should be hiked further or not.
2. Key Points...
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04-Apr 2023
WHEAT CROP IN INDIA
WHEAT CROP IN INDIA
1. Context
2021-22 and 2022-23 have both seen unusual rabi (winter-spring) cropping seasons in terms of weather and yield loss, especially in wheat. But the patterns of rainfa...
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04-Apr 2023
PROBIOTICS
ARE PROBIOTICS WORTH THE HYPE?
1. Context
Whenever talking about gut health, ‘probiotics’ are likely to crop up during the conversation. As such, it would not be wrong to say that it has becom...
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04-Apr 2023
CLIMATE NUETRAL BY 2030
NET ZERO EMISSIONS BY 2030
1. Context
The EU is pushing for 100 cities including Paris, Madrid and Amsterdam to reach net-zero emissions by the end of the decade far earlier than their nation...
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04-Apr 2023
PRICE ON CARBON EMISSION
PRICE ON CARBON EMISSION
1. Context
In the absence of a price for the use of natural resources such as air and forests, environmental destruction has been part of every country's recipe for boost...
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04-Apr 2023
EINSTEEN PROBLEM
EINSTEEN PROBLEM
1. Context
Mathematicians have discovered a single shape that can be used to cover a surface completely without ever creating a repeating pattern
Mathematicians have long won...
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04-Apr 2023
SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE
SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE
1. Context
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was quick to reject a call from the new First Minister of Scotland and leader of the governing Scottish National Party (SNP), Hum...
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04-Apr 2023
NOWRUZ FESTIVAL
NOWRUZ FESTIVAL
1. Context
Nowruz also spelt as Navroz, is celebrated by the ethnic Iranian population every year in various parts of the world.
The Parsi community in India, which follows Zoroastr...
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03-Apr 2023
RARE DISEASES
RARE DISEASES
1. Context
The central government has recently exempted all foods and drugs for rare diseases imported by people for personal use from customs duty. With most therapy for rare disea...
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03-Apr 2023
TRANS PACIFIC TRADE PACT
COMPREHENSIVE AND PROGRESSIVE AGREEMENT FOR TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (CPTPP)
1. Context
Britain on Friday agreed to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partners...
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03-Apr 2023
MICROPLASTICS MICROPLASTICS IN OCEANS
1. Context
An estimated 170 trillion plastic particles weighing about 2 million metric tons are currently afloat in the oceans across the world, according to a new s...
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03-Apr 2023
DRAFT RESOLUTION (A/77/L.58)
DRAFT RESOLUTION (A/77/L.58)
1. Context
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution that asked the International Court of Justice at The Hague to provide an opinion on what kind of ob...
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03-Apr 2023
SALES TAX
SALES TAX
1. Context
Actor Anushka Sharma had moved the Bombay High Court challenging the Mazgaon sales tax deputy commissioner's orders raising dues for 2012-13 and 2013-14 under the Maharashtra Va...
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03-Apr 2023