UPSC Current Affairs27 March 2024UPSCNEW RULES FOR ELEPHANT TRANSFERSliberalises the conditions under which elephants may be transferred within or between States. THE LEGALITIES: Elephants are, according to the provisions of the Wildlife Protection Act, a...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs23 March 2024UPSCPM MODI’S STATE VISIT TO BHUTANseveral MoUs and signed agreements in the fields of energy, trade, digital connectivity, space and agriculture, and finalised the MoU on the establishment of rail links between the two na...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs23 March 2024UPSCFACT CHECK UNITThe Supreme Court on Thursday (March 21) stayed the operation of the amended Information Technology (IT) Rules, which empowered the government to identify “fake news” on social media plat...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs22 March 2024UPSCWORLD HAPPINESS REPORTtop 10 countries in the list have remained the same since before the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States (23) and Germany (24) have fallen in the rankings, making way for several Eastern...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs22 March 2024UPSCSOLAR WASTE100 kilo tonnes (kt) of solar waste in the financial year (FY) 2022-2023, according to a new study. The amount of solar waste produced by the country is expected to reach 600 kt by 2030,...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs21 March 2024UPSCSTATE OF THE CLIMATE REPORT BY WMOannual State of the Climate report, published on March 19, by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) found that 2023 was the hottest year on record. Numerous records for indicators o...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs21 March 2024UPSCELECTORAL BONDS DATAfirst tranche of data on electoral bonds disclosed by the Election Commission of India on March 14, 2024, under the directions of the Supreme Court, provides an incomplete picture of the...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs20 March 2024UPSCGENDER PAY GAPWorld Bank Group report found that globally, women earn just 77 cents for every dollar paid to men. This difference has been cited in the past as an example of the “gender pay gap” – wome...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs05 February 2024UPSCThe four issues that CJI DY Chandrachud highlighted within the legal professionThe issue of lawyers frequently requesting adjournments in court has been a long-standing concern. In a 2016 judgment, Justice Dipak Misra criticized a lawyer who had managed to adjourn a...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs05 February 2024UPSCThe crime of piracy, and how maritime forces respond to itThe high incidence of piracy in certain sea regions can be attributed to four main factors. Firstly, these areas are inadequately patrolled due to the weak maritime forces of the coastal...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs05 February 2024UPSCLAKSHADWEEPFew days back a trip by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to these Lakshadweep archipelago and a tweet caused an unexpected international-relations storm. ABOUT LAKSHADWEEP & ITS GEOGRAPHY: La...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs05 February 2024UPSCPersonally Identifiable InformationContext: Recently, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs fixed a critical vulnerability in its online portal months after a cybersecurity researcher reported the vulnerability to the Computer...Study this topic →