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Daily Current Affairs - 8th August, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 8th August, 2022 Ten More Ramsar Sites Added GS Paper 3 Source: Insights Source: PIB Context: India has added 10 more Ramsar sites, or wetlands of international importance (taking the total number of such sites to 64) Direction: Ramsar Site is important for both Mains and Prelims. The news came a few days back, but....

Daily Current Affairs - 6th August, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 6th August, 2022 Withdrawal of Personal Data Protection Bill GS Paper 2, 3 For Prelims: Data Protection, Personal Data, Privacy, Personal Data Protection Bill, Data Localisation, Other Related Laws For Mains: Significance of Personal Data Protection, Challenges in safeguarding data, Measures for implementation of da...

Daily Current Affairs - 3 August, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 3rd August, 2022 Parliament passes bill to ban funding of weapons of mass destruction GS Paper 2 Source: Economic Times, The print Context: Parliament passed a bill (The Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Amendment Bill, 2022)which seeks to ban funding of weap...

Daily Current Affairs - 27th July, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 27th July, 2022 Suspension of MPs from Parliament GS Paper 2 Context: As 19 Opposition members are suspended from Rajya Sabha for a week. This is important for Prelims (the process of suspension) and for mains (just remember the instances of suspension in the parliament this year- to be used as an example) Reason f...

Daily Current Affairs - 26th July, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 26th July, 2022 Adding digital layers of indignity GS Paper 2 Context: The article highlights a few threats to digital governance as technology also dehumanizes humane aspects. A few examples of the negatives of technology can be noted down. Examples of how digital initiatives in governance may over-ride human righ...

Daily Current Affairs - 25 July, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 25th July, 2022 Biased media, agenda-driven debates weakening democracy GS Paper 2 Context: India’s CJI has highlighted concerns that “ill-informed and agenda-driven debates” and “biased views” are weakening democracy. Importance of Judiciary: Judiciary as “the organ which breathes life into the Constit...

Daily Current Affairs - 23rd July, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 23rd July, 2022 Issue of simultaneous polls with law panel: Govt GS Paper 2 The issue of holding simultaneous parliamentary and Assembly polls has been referred to the Law Commission so that a practicable roadmap and framework can be worked out. In its draft report, the 21st Law Commission had said it was convinced...

Daily Current Affairs - 22 July, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 22nd July, 2022 Bioeconomy GS Paper 2 Source: For Prelims: Bioeconomy, India’s Bioeconomy Report 2022 For Mains: Bioeconomy and its advantages Recently, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) released India’s Bioeconomy Report 2022. During the release, the government launched a special Biote...

Daily Current Affairs - 21st July, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 21st July, 2022 Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) has hit 51% mark GS Paper 2 Context: JJM hit 51% completion of the project. From less than 17% of households with a running tap water connection, JJM has enabled reach to more than 34% now in less than 3 years. Other data: About 1.4 million soak beds have been constructed in...

Daily Current Affairs - 20th July, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 20th July, 2022 A Glossary for the Troubled Global Economy GS Paper 3 Recently, US’ Inflation hit a record high of 9.1% in June 2022, the highest in 40 years. US observers have argued that the US central bank will not be able to achieve a soft landing for the economy if the yield curve inverts. Start of reverse c...

Daily Current Affairs - 19th July, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 19th July, 2022 Minority status of religious, and linguistic communities is State-dependent: SC GS Paper 2 Source: Insights IAS Context: Every person in India can be a minority in one State or the other. The minority status of religious and linguistic communities is “State-dependent”, the Supreme Court said. Th...

Daily Current Affairs - 16th July, 2022

Daily Current Affairs - 16th July, 2022 Iran, and Belarus to be the newest SCO members GS Paper-2 Source: Insights IAS Context: Iran and Belarus are likely to be the two newest additions to the China and Russia-backed Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) India will host the SCO summit next year, and Varanasi has been selected as the SC...