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EL NINO AND MONSOON EL NINO AND MONSOON
1. Context
India has had four consecutive years of good monsoons, which has led to a significant increase in agricultural production.
The farm sector has grown by an average ...
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15-Jun 2023
FINANCE COMMISSION & FISCAL FEDERALISM
FINANCE COMMISSION
1. Context
The government will appoint a Finance Commission in the next few months to determine how much of the Centre's tax revenue should be given away to States (the vertical s...
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15-Jun 2023
PUPPETRY
PUPPETRY
1. Context
Some communities, including in West Bengal, Odisha and in Delhi, are struggling due to lack of state support and patronage and simply because they could not upgrade their s...
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15-Jun 2023
GLOBAL SLAVERY INDEX
GLOBAL SLAVERY INDEX
1. Context
Recently, the Global Slavery Index 2023 was published. The term "modern slavery" has a specific definition. According to the index, on any given day in 2021, appro...
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14-Jun 2023
UNESCO
UNESCO
1. Context
Recently, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) announced that the United States will rejoin it in July, four years after it left the agency (a...
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14-Jun 2023
HIROSHIMA AI PROCESS
HIROSHIMA AI PROCESS
1. Context
The annual Group of Seven (G7) summit, hosted by Japan, took place in Hiroshima in May 1921. Among other matters, the G7 Hiroshima Leaders communique initiated the...
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14-Jun 2023
CANCEL CULTURE
CANCEL CULTURE
1. Context
In June 2020, author J.K. Rowling posted some controversial tweets about the Transgender community.
There was a swift and fierce backlash against her online, especia...
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14-Jun 2023
APUAPA
ARUNACHAL PRADESH'S UAPA
1. Context
A legislation enacted in Arunachal Pradesh in 2014, the Arunachal Pradesh Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (APUAPA), is currently under the scanner, wit...
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14-Jun 2023
KARNATAKA'S COW SLAUGHTER BAN
KARNATAKA'S COW SLAUGHTER BAN
1. Context
The Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Act, 2020, which was brought into force by the previous government, to impose a near-total ...
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13-Jun 2023
RAM PRASAD BISMIL
RAM PRASAD BISMIL
1. Context
On his 126th birth anniversary, we remember Ram Prasad Bismil, whose words and actions have inspired generations of Indians.
2. About Ram Prasad Bismil
Ram Pra...
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13-Jun 2023
22ND LAW COMISSION ON SEDITION LAW
22ND LAW COMMISSION ON SEDITION LAW
1. Context
Nearly a year after the Supreme Court stayed the operation of the sedition law, the Law Commission of India has recommended that the provision be re...
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13-Jun 2023
INDO-US COOPERATION IN AGRICULTURE
INDO-US COOPERATION IN AGRICULTURE
1. Introduction
The United States and the likes of Rockefeller and Ford Foundation played in India's agricultural development during the 1950s and 1960s.
This ...
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13-Jun 2023
THAILAND
THAILAND
1. Context
Thailand's Progressive Move Forward Party (MFP) and the populist Pheu Thai Party claimed victory in an election that gave a thumbs-down to the military-backed parties which ru...
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12-Jun 2023
CRYPTO EXCHANGES
CRYPTO EXCHANGES
1. Context
Recently, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed over a dozen charges against Binance, alleging that the crypto exchange commingled billions of dollar...
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12-Jun 2023
ARCTIC SEA ICE
ARCTIC SEA ICE
1. Context
A recent study in the Nature Journal says that the loss of Arctic sea ice is inevitable in the decades ahead, even if the world somehow gets its act together and sharply...
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12-Jun 2023