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Current AffairsUPSC Current Affairs12 October 2023

Under President-Elect Mohamed Muizzu, the path forward in India-Maldives ties

Delhi of using this influence to establish what it called a permanent military presence in the Maldives. The background There have been a handful of issues—some over a decade old—that have been particularly in focus in the context…

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Current AffairsUPSC Current Affairs12 October 2023

12-10-2023 MCQs Test English

12-10-2023 MCQs Test English is presented in this visual current affairs explainer for UPSC and State PCS preparation.

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Current AffairsUPSC Current Affairs11 October 2023

Economics Nobel 2023: How Claudia Goldin shed light on the status of women in the workforce

Before Goldin’s book was published in 1990, data mainly from the 20th century had been published, and researchers believed that as the economy grew, so did women’s labour force participation. Goldin reached back to older data to r…

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Current AffairsUPSC Current Affairs11 October 2023

ATTOSECOND

CONTEXT: Recently the 2023 Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini, and Ferenc Krausz “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”…

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Current AffairsUPSC Current Affairs11 October 2023

SAMMAKKA SARAKKA

Recently, the Union cabinet approved a tribal university for Telangana – the Sarakka Central Tribal University, which will come up in Mulugu district at a cost of Rs 889 crore. ABOUT SAMMAKKA SARAKKA: Sammakka is said to have been…

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Current AffairsUPSC Current Affairs11 October 2023

QUANTUM DOTS

Bawendi have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”. A quantum dot is a really small assembly of atoms (just a few thousand) around a few nanometres wide. The ‘quantum’ in…

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Current AffairsUPSC Current Affairs10 October 2023

How India-Israel ties progressed: from Palestine-leaning to a strategic embrace of the Jewish nation

In the years post Independence India’s political attitude towards Israel was set quite firmly shortly after independence in 1947, when Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi vowed to support the Palestinian cause as they rejected the…

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Current AffairsUPSC Current Affairs10 October 2023

mRNA VACCINES

CONTEXT: Recently, Nobel Price in physiology was awarded for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. mRNA, which stands for messenger RN…

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Current AffairsUPSC Current Affairs10 October 2023

NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY (NRT)

Recently,a group of doctors are expressing concern over the proposal to reclassify nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) as prescription drugs. MORE ABOUT THE NEWS: The Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) under the Central Drugs…

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Current AffairsUPSC Current Affairs10 October 2023

SCHEDULED AREAS

Scheduled Areas are areas in India with a preponderance of tribal population subject to a special governance mechanism. Scheduled Areas cover 11.3% of India’s land area. Presently they have been notified in 10 States: Andhra Prade…

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