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Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill

This bill is going to replace the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The new bill seeks to include issues like Love Jihad, Terrorism, Organised Crime, Mob lynching and such like. Changes in provisions related to Sedition, Fake News & Mandat…

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Project Nexus

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has joined Project Nexus, a multilateral International initiative to enable instant cross-border retail payments by Interlinking domestic Fast Payments Systems (FPSs). The linkage: India’s Unified Payme…

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The Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023

It retains most provisions of the IEA including those on confessions, relevancy of facts, and burden of proof. PROVISIONS The IEA provides for two kinds of evidence - documentary and oral. Documentary evidence includes primary (or…

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Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 is one among the three criminal laws which has been passed by the Parliament. It has been passed by both the houses and has come into force on 1 July, 2024. The Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhi…

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Parliamentary Elections In France

After two rounds of polling on June 30 and July 7, France will elect a new National Assembly. For the first time in 22 years, there is a real possibility that the President and the Prime Minister, leader of the National Assembly,…

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Starliner Spacecraft

The return of the Starliner spacecraft, which took NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this Month, has been postponed. Following lift-off on June 5, the Boeing-built s…

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Coalition For Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)

CRDI is an India-backed international platform, announced by the Prime Minister of India at the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit in New York in 2019. Secretariat of CDRI would be based in New Delhi. TASKS WITH CDRI Tak…

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Panchsheel

China will hold commemorative events to mark the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence — a foreign policy concept that was first articulated in an agreement with India in 1954. The ceremony in Beijing wil…

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Chang'e 6: A Successful Sample Bring back Mission From Moon

China’s Chang’e-6 on Tuesday became the first spacecraft to bring back samples from the far side of the Moon — the part that the Earth never gets to see. The lander descended on the Moon’s surface on June 1, and spent two days col…

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Leader of Opposition

Rahul Gandhi is Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, a position that lay vacant for 10 years because no party had numbers equalling a tenth of the strength of the House, which has been by practice a requirement to lay claim to the p…

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Lok Adalats

a special Lok Adalat from July 29 to August 3 to facilitate amicable settlements of suitable pending cases, commemorating the 75th year of its establishment. The system involves out-of-court settlement of various disputes, to save…

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How India Plans to Engage With China?

four years this week since the Galwan clashes of June 15, 2020 that rocked India-China ties, and the border standoff is yet to be resolved. About 50,000 to 60,000 troops are still deployed on each side of the border. Managing the…

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Post Office Act, 2023 Comes Into Force

INTRODUCED (IN RS): AUGUST, 2023 PASSED IN RS: DECEMBER 4, 2023 PASSED IN LS: DECEMBER 18, 2023. The Post Office Act, 2023 seeks to repeal the old law- Indian Post Office Act 1898. NEED FOR THE LAW: Post Offices in India are now r…

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International Day Of Yoga

International Day of Yoga is a day in recognition of Yoga, that is celebrated across the world annually on June 21, following its adoption by the United Nations in 2014. This year is going to be the 10th year of recognition. THEME…

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Security In The Parliament

DMK Rajya Sabha MP M Mohamed Abdulla has complained to Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar about “unprecedented misbehaviour” by personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) who allegedly “questioned [him] on the purpose of [hi…

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Juneteenth

Juneteenth, a portmanteau of “June” and “Nineteenth,” is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Observed on June 19 every year, it marks a pivotal moment in American history.…

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Vladimir Putin In North Korea

Vladimir Putin heads to North Korea, both Moscow and Pyongyang hope his talks with Kim Jong Un will reinforce the relationship between the two countries as they find themselves ostracized by large parts of the world. The talks are…

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PRO-TEM Speaker

18th Lok Sabha will hold its first session from June 24 to July 3, during which the new Speaker of the House will be elected. Until this happens, a pro-tem Speaker will be chosen to swear in the new Members of Parliament. Accordin…

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The Monsoon

North and Northwest India have experienced ‘heatwave’ to ‘severe heatwave’ conditions. The southwest monsoon that made an early onset over Kerala has advanced until Maharashtra, BUT- It has been dry and hot over the Southern penin…

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Exercise Red Flag

Indian Air Force (IAF) contingent participated in the Exercise Red Flag 2024 conducted at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska of the United States Air Force, from 04 Jun to 14 Jun 24. DETAILS ABOUT THIS EDITION This was the second edit…

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Great Nicobar Mega Development Project

Rs 72,000-crore infra upgrade at the Great Nicobar Island as A “grave threat” to the island’s indigenous inhabitants and fragile ecosystem, and demanded “immediate Suspension of all clearances” and a “thorough, impartial review of…

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Prevention Of Sexual Harassment At Workplace

STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths — courses in India, resulting in them landing jobs in Corporate houses, especially in the It sector. Hence, the proportion of women in leading corporate firms has increased conside…

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icet Meeting

National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval and his U.S. counterpart, Jake Sullivan, who is on a two-day visit to India, on Monday resolved to prevent the “leakage” of sensitive and dual-use technologies to countries of “concern”.…

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