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GREAT ANDAMAN NICOBAR
GREAT ANDAMAN NICOBAR
1. Context
Recently, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change gave environmental clearance for the ambitious Rs 72, 000 crores development project on the strategi...
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28-Feb 2023
ALMA TELESCOPE
ALMA TELESCOPE
1. Context
The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) a radio telescope comprising 66 antennas located in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile is set to get software a...
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27-Feb 2023
HARD VS SOFT LANDING
HARD VS SOFT LANDING
1. Context
Both India and the US are headed for elections next year in April-May and November respectively.
How their economies perform this year and closer to the pools in te...
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27-Feb 2023
GLACIAL LAKES OUTBURST FLOODS (GLOF)
GLACIAL LAKES OUTBURST FLOODS (GLOF)
1.Context
Around 15 million people across the world face the risk of sudden and deadly flooding from glacial lakes, which are expanding and rising in numbe...
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27-Feb 2023
PROTECTING OCEAN SYSTEM
PROTECTING OCEAN SYSTEM
1.Context
While the high seas make up more than 60% of the world’s oceans, they have long drawn far less attention than coastal waters. The UN wants to protect them in ...
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27-Feb 2023
HEATWAVE HEATWAVE
1. Context
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned that the maximum temperatures over northwest, west, and central India would be 35°C higher than the longterm average. On Feb...
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27-Feb 2023
RUSSIA'S New START
RUSSIA'S New START
1. Context
President Vladimir Putin announced in an address to his nation on Tuesday (February 21) that Russia is suspending its participation in the New START, the last remai...
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27-Feb 2023
MENSTRUAL LEAVE POLICY
MENSTRUAL LEAVE POLICY
1. Context
Recently, the Supreme Court refused to entertain a PIL about menstrual leave for workers and students across the country, calling it a policy matter under Section 1...
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27-Feb 2023
WORLD BANK
WORLD BANK
1. Context
Indian-American business executive Ajay Banga was nominated by US President Joe Biden to head the World Bank. If confirmed by the World Bank board of directors, Banga, 63, w...
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25-Feb 2023
CYBERBULLYING
CYBERBULLYING
1. Context
Recently, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urged lawmakers to work collectively to end drug abuse and cyberbullying among the youth, with new laws if required.
2. About Cy...
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25-Feb 2023
TENTH SCHEDULE
TENTH SCHEDULE OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION
1.Context
A five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India is presently hearing a set of cases popularly known as the “Maharashtra political controver...
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25-Feb 2023
KHALISTAN MOVEMENT
KHALISTAN MOVEMENT
1. Context
Recently hundreds of followers of Amirtpal Singh, a radical preacher and pro-Khalistan leader clashed violently with police outside Ajnala police station near Amritsar...
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25-Feb 2023
SECTION 153A OF IPC
SECTION 153A OF IPC
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The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim bail to Pawan Khera, Chairman of the media and publicity department of the All India Congress Committee, who had been ...
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25-Feb 2023
INDO-SINO BORDER ISSUES
INDO-SINO BORDER ISSUES
1. Context
The India-China border dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute between China and India over the sovereignty of two relatively large and several smaller separated...
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24-Feb 2023
MOHINIYATTAM
MOHINIYATTAM
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Known as one of India's most inventive classical dancers and pioneering dance educationists, Mohiniyattam exponent Kanak Rele, who played a significant role in bringing a sy...
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24-Feb 2023