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UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME
1. Context
Sikkim will be the first state in India to roll out the Universal Basic Income or UBI, with the ruling party Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) including it in its ma...
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20-Jul 2023
BACTERIOPHAGES
BACTERIOPHAGES: ANTI BACTERIAL GUARD DOGS
1. Context
With Antibiotic resistance raising, Scientists think bacteriophages which hunt and kill bacteria could cure bacterial infections
2. Bac...
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20-Jul 2023
MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX
MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX
1. Context
India has registered a decline in the number of “multidimensionally poor” individuals, from 24.85 per cent in 2015-16 to 14.96 per cent in 2019-202...
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20-Jul 2023
UTTARMERUR INSCRIPTION
UTTARMERUR INSCRIPTION
1. Context
Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to the Uttaramerur inscription in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu while discussing India’s democratic history.
2. About U...
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20-Jul 2023
DIGITAL INDIA LAND RECORD MODERNISATION PROGRAMME (DILRMP)
DIGITAL INDIA LAND RECORD MODERNISATION PROGRAMME (DILRMP)
1. Context
The Centre has focused on digitisation of land records through its scheme Digital India Land Record Modernisation Programme...
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20-Jul 2023
KANWAR YATRA
KANWAR YATRA
1. Context
The annual Kanwar Yatra, a Hindu pilgrimage that involves devotees carrying pitchers of holy water to Shiva temples, recently concluded amid massive security and traffic arra...
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19-Jul 2023
BIMSTEC
BIMSTEC
1. Context
Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Kathmandu for the fourth summit of the seven-nation grouping BIMSTEC. Although it has existed since 1997, BIMSTEC had been largel...
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19-Jul 2023
SAMARTH RAMDAS
SANT RAMDAS
1. Context
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has demanded an “unconditional apology” from Jaggi Vasudev of the Isha Foundation for a video in which he is seen making the claim t...
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19-Jul 2023
GAMBUSIA
GAMBUSIA
1. Context
The Andhra Pradesh government has released approximately 10 million Gambusia fish into the state’s water bodies to combat mosquito-borne diseases like malaria and dengue. T...
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19-Jul 2023
HINDU UNDIVIDED FAMILY
HINDU UNDIVIDED FAMILY
1. Context
The ongoing deliberations on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) by the Law Commission of India have sparked a discussion on the Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) and its sepa...
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19-Jul 2023
CORAL BLEACH
CORAL BLEACH IN 2023
1. Context
The water off South Florida is over 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) in mid-July, and scientists are already seeing signs of coral bleaching off Central an...
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19-Jul 2023
PM AWAS YOJANA
PM AWAS YOJANA
1. Context
Uttar Pradesh has got an additional target of 1,44,220 houses to be constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin in the current fiscal, taking the overall tar...
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19-Jul 2023
CRIMEAN-CONGO HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER
CCHF
1. Context
Europe is currently experiencing a heatwave and widespread wildfires, leading to concerns about the spread of viruses typically found in warmer climates.
The World Health Orga...
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18-Jul 2023
REGIONAL COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP (RCEP) RCEP
1. Context
Recently, India decided to hold off on signing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) until “significant outstanding issues” were resolved, even as all other 15 co...
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18-Jul 2023
MOON MISSIONS
MOON MISSIONS
1. Context
The Chandrayaan-3 mission, which took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) in Sriharikota on July 14, 2023, is India's third lunar mission and second attempt to ma...
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18-Jul 2023