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DOCTRINE OF PLEASURE

DOCTRINE OF PLEASURE 1. Context President Draupadi Murmu has terminated the services of an Indian Army Major posted with a Strategic Forces Command (SFC) unit. An Army inquiry had earlier foun...

02-Nov 2023

HOUTHIS 1. Context Two Indians and a Pakistani were killed and six other people including two Indians were injured in an attack by suspected drones on three petroleum tankers at an oil facil...

02-Nov 2023

US-ISRAEL 1. Context Within days of the October 7 attack by Hamas inside Israel, killing at least 1,400 people, President Joe Biden travelled to Israel to declare solidarity with the Jewish state...

02-Nov 2023

DEBT SERVICE RATIO

DEBT SERVICE RATIO 1. Context According to the RBI, household debt surged to 5.8 per cent of the GDP in FY23, marking the second-highest annual increase since Independence (the highest growth was at...

01-Nov 2023

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES 1. Context A revamp of the Standing Committees of Parliament could potentially worsen the relations between the government and opposition parties. Of the 22 committees an...

01-Nov 2023

EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE

EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE 1. Context Stressing the need for establishing multi-national collaborative frameworks to effectively tackle common maritime challenges in the Indian Ocean Region, Defence ...

01-Nov 2023

DEEEP OCEAN MISSION

DEEP OCEAN MISSION 1. Context M. Ravichandran, Secretary of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, breaks down the mission and its salient features and challenges. It was conducted by Bhavya Khanna, a s...

01-Nov 2023

OPEN MARKET OPERATIONS (OMO)

OPEN MARKET OPERATIONS (OMO) 1. Context In its October meeting, the monetary policy committee voted unanimously to keep interest rates unchanged. This was widely expected. But what was not was the...

31-Oct 2023

AGE OF THE MOON

AGE OF THE MOON 1. Context More than 50 years after astronauts returned with the last batch of Apollo-era moon rock, scientists have said they made a finding that would have been impossible in...

31-Oct 2023

RAPID ICE MELTING

RAPID ICE MELTING 1. Context The rapid melting of West Antarctica’s ice sheet due to warm waters around it is now unavoidable, no matter how much carbon emissions are cut, according to a new s...

31-Oct 2023

PRISONERS DILEMMA

PRISONERS DILEMMA 1. Context Giving his keynote address at the Goa Maritime Conclave, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh referred to the concept of “Prisoner’s Dilemma” to underscore the need for cou...

31-Oct 2023

XEROGRAPHY 1. Background Walter Benjamin's 1935 essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," set the stage for a discussion on the impact of mass reproduction on art and text. W...

31-Oct 2023

PREVENTIVE DETENTION

PREVENTIVE DETENTION 1. Context As Telangana gears up for Assembly polls next month, its stringent preventive detention law is under the spotlight. In at least three separate instances, the Su...

30-Oct 2023

LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG)

LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG) 1. Context The death sentence given to eight former personnel of the Indian Navy by a court in Qatar presents the biggest challenge yet to New Delhi’s historically ...

30-Oct 2023

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES 1. Context Two people were killed and scores injured after a series of blasts at a Sunday prayer convention of the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect near Kochi. The incident took...

30-Oct 2023