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Davos meeting 2024: 5 key takeaways

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) was the central focus at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting. Discussions revolved around its transformative potential for human welfare, the need for regulation, con…

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IRAN-PAKISTAN BORDER TENSIONS

Recently, Iran launched the first missile strike, hitting a terror base in Pakistan’s Baluchistan. MORE ABOUT THE NEWS: Iran launched a missile and drone attack at terror camps in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province last week. Iran’s…

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Batadrava Than

Context: Recently Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was prevented from visiting Assam’s Batadrava Than, where he was going as part of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. The yatra was stopped for about two hours at Haibargaon in Nagaon, and ar…

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Pradhan Mantri Suryodaya Yojana

Context: Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the ‘Pradhan Mantri Suryodaya Yojana’. It is a government scheme under which one crore households will get rooftop solar power systems. However it is important to note that…

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India-Bangladesh ties

Context: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has returned to power in Bangladesh for a historic fourth straight term earlier this month after her party, the Awami League, secured two­thirds of the seats in the recently held national elec…

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India-Myanmar border Free Movement Regime

Context: Recently, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the Centre has decided to fence the entire length of the India-Myanmar border to stop the free movement of people. The two countries share a largely unfenced 1,643 km…

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Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration

Context: The Union Home Ministry has recently cancelled the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration of World Vision India (WVI). WVI is a non­governmental organisation (NGO) which focuses on children’s issues. Sinc…

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Labour rules for workers abroad

Context: Recently both the Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments have started the process of recruiting about 10,000 workers to go to Israel with the help of the National Skill Development Corporation, primarily for construction a…

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Digital twin city

Context: In order to overcome the problems posed by the urbanization especially in the cities, the concept of digital twin city is lauded as solution for the same. About: A digital twin city is the city matching the physical city…

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NAGARA STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE

The Ram temple in Ayodhya, set for inauguration on January 22 has been designed in the Nagara style of temple architecture. ABOUT NAGARA STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE: This Nagara style of temple architecture emerged in fifth century CE,…

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Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

Context: According to the recent reports it is being observed that the RCEP has benefitted China more than any other country in the group. India decided to withdraw from RCEP on November 4, 2019, at the third Regional Comprehensiv…

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PM-JANMAN Scheme

Context: Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi released ₹540 crore as the first instalment of funding for pucca homes under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) to one lakh Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) ben…

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Satellites tracking the weather

Context: Large parts of North India, including Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, and Punjab have been wrapped with heavy fog since December 2023. Few days back the India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned of a…

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Multidimensional Poverty Index – India

Context: According to a discussion paper released by NITI Aayog the share of India’s population living in multidimensional poverty is estimated to have decreased to 11.28 per cent in 2022-23 from 29.17 per cent in 2013-14. NITI Aa…

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PM e-Bus Sewa scheme

About the scheme: The scheme is launched by the Government of India in 2023 to promote electric buses. Under the scheme about 10,000 electric buses will be provided under a public-private partnership (PPP) model. The scheme will b…

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Is North Korea preparing for war in 2024?

In December, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that a second nuclear reactor at Yongbyon is operational and could produce weapons-grade fuel. Korean situation ‘most dangerous’ in decades An article by 38 North…

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