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FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES IN INDIA
FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES IN INDIA
1.Context
The University Grants Commission’s announcement allowing foreign universities to set up campuses here offers a path of globalisation to the Indian higher e...
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12-Jan 2023
SECTION 6A OF CITIZENSHIP ACT
SECTION 6A OF CITIZENSHIP ACT
1. Context
A Supreme Court Constitution Bench, while hearing petitions challenging Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, said Tuesday it would first decide whether the pro...
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12-Jan 2023
VSHORAD MISSILE
VSHORAD MISSILE
1. Context
The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) to procure the Very Short Range Air Defence System or VSHORAD (IR Homing) missile system, ...
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12-Jan 2023
THE PLACES OF WORSHIP ACT
THE PLACES OF WORSHIP ACT
1. Context
The Supreme Court hear a challenge to the order of a civil court in Varanasi directing a videographic survey of the Maa Shringar Gauri Sthal in the Kashi Vishwan...
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11-Jan 2023
COLD WAVE
COLD WAVE
1. Context
In Delhi, the Safdarjung weather station, which provides representative figures for the city, has recorded cold wave conditions for five consecutive days so far this month, m...
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11-Jan 2023
OZONE HOLE
OZONE HOLE
1. Context
The ozone ‘hole’, once considered to be the gravest danger to planetary life, is now expected to be completely repaired by 2066, a scientific assessment has suggested. In fa...
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11-Jan 2023
ANDHRA PRADESH VS TELANGANA
ANDHRA PRADESH VS TELANGANA
1. Context
More than eight years after the bifurcation of the erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh, division of assets and liabilities between the two States remain elusive ...
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11-Jan 2023
RBI GUIDELINES FOR BANKS
RBI GUIDELINES FOR BANKS
1. Context
Inorder to enhance the safety, transparency and effective management of safe deposit lockers provided by banks, apex banking regulator Reserve Bank of India (R...
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11-Jan 2023
FATIMA SHEIKH
FATIMA SHEIKH
1. Context
On her 192nd birth anniversary, we remember the life and contributions of Fatima Sheikh, pioneering Muslim woman educator and a collaborator with Savitribai and Jyotirao ...
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10-Jan 2023
LAND SUBSIDENCE
LAND SUBSIDENCE
1. Context
Almost a week after cracks appeared in many roads and hundreds of houses of Joshimath, Uttarakhand, authorities on Sunday declared it a landslide and subsidence-hit zone.
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10-Jan 2023
DECENNIAL CENSUS
DECENNIAL CENSUS
1. Context
The decennial census of 2021 has been pushed forward yet again and is unlikely to start till September 2023, at least. The Additional Register General of India communi...
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10-Jan 2023
WAYANAD HUMAN-ANIMAL CONFLICT
WAYANAD HUMAN-ANIMAL CONFLICT
1. Context
In the latest in a series of wild elephant attacks in Kerala, Subair Kutty, a daily worker, was attacked by a rouge elephant at Sulthan Bathery town adjacent...
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10-Jan 2023
TITLE 42
TITLE 42
1. Context
The United States announced that it will extend COVID-19 pandemic-era restrictions, known as Title 42, to expel migrants from Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti caught crossing the U.S.-...
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09-Jan 2023
OBSCENITY LAWS IN INDIA
OBSCENITY LAWS IN INDIA
1. Context
BJP leader appealed to the authorities to take action against actor Urfi Javed for “roaming the streets of Mumbai and exhibiting her body”.
2. What is called a...
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09-Jan 2023
GROWTH IN REMITTANCES
REMITTANCES
1.Background
Remittances to India are set to touch a record $100 billion in 2022, according to the World Bank’s latest Migration and Development Brief titled, ‘Remittances Brave Gl...
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09-Jan 2023