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Even though the fact sheet on the Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) has been officially released, the debate on poverty is still ongoing.
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Even though the fact sheet on the Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) has been officially released, the debate on poverty is still ongoing.
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The Department of Posts has opened a second branch of the post office at the Bharati research station in Antarctica.
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The RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announced the first monetary policy of the financial year 2024-25. The policy broadly mirrored the last policy in both its tone and action.
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Kosovo's government began its first nationwide census since 2011, which will include, for the first time, surveying the ethnic Serb minority in the north.
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Chief Justice of India began hearing arguments on whether state governments have the power to regulate and control the sale, distribution, pricing and other factors relating to ‘industrial’ alcohol.
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The Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) that secured 3.9% and 6.5% votes in Tamil Nadu in 2019 and 2021 respectively, has been allotted a new common symbol (Mike). The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) that secured 1.09% and 0.99% votes in 2019 and 2021 has been denied a common symbol (Pot). This has raised concerns about the allotment of symbols to ‘registered unrecognized parties’.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve said that it will make significant changes to a sweeping proposal for stricter bank capital requirements known as the “Basel III endgame”.
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The researchers found that melting glaciers create open landscapes that invasive plant and animal species are rapidly colonizing.
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The V-Dem Institute’s recent democracy index termed India as “one of the worst autocratisers”. Similar indices have downgraded India’s democratic standing in recent years — India is only ‘partly free’ (Freedom House), is home to a “flawed democracy” (The Economist Intelligence Unit) and is better classified as an “electoral autocracy.”
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By analysing the genomes of 363 bird species, a new study has identified the fundamental relationships among the major groups of living birds.
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A report on prostate cancer by the Lancet Commission has unveiled a looming global crisis in the fight against the disease.
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When registering the birth of a child, parents will now be required to separately record the religion of both the child’s father and mother, in a departure from the existing 'religion of the family' declaration, according to Model Rules drafted by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
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The moon will blot out the sun for millions of people in North America along a path crossing from Mexico into the United States and then Canada in a total solar eclipse occurring on Monday, April 8, 2024.
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NICES programme invites Indian researchers to join in combating climate change.
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There is a rise in numbers of privileged Indians traveling abroad for surrogacy due to change in surrogacy rules.
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In a recent development, the Government of Kerala has approached the Supreme Court (SC) for a resolution of the following question: How much can the State government borrow from the market to bridge the excess of its expenditures over receipts?
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The presence of the skeleton excavated from a hillock, locally called Padta Bet, point to the presence of a 5,200-year-old Harappan settlement that was 1.5 km from the mass burial ground of Juna Khatiya, an Early Harappan necropolis.
GS Paper III
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In the wake of the General Elections, a new threat has arisen, i.e. of misinformation via deepfakes and other means of forged videos.
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The National Security Advisor (NSA) of India Ajit Doval attended the 19th Meeting of Secretaries of the Security Council of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Astana, Kazakhstan.
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Taiwan was hit by its biggest earthquake in at least 25 years on April 4. While Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency said the quake was 7.2 magnitude, the US Geological Survey (USGS) put it at 7.4.
GS Paper III
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Astronomers are looking forward to opening a new window on the universe by posting high-resolution telescopes on the moon, and in orbit around it.
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Indian officials and the representatives of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) held extensive talks last month to begin formal negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA).
GS Paper III
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The Uttarakhand government has constituted two teams of experts to evaluate the risk posed by five potentially hazardous glacial lakes in the region.
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An estimated 50 caracals are left in the small clusters in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat, making caracal the second cat species after the Asiatic cheetah to reach the brink of extinction in India.
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The 'One Vehicle, One FASTag' initiative of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has been implemented on April 1, 2024.
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The Paradip Port in Odisha has become the highest cargo handling major port of the country in the financial year 2023-24 beating the Deendayal Port, Kandla, Gujarat.
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The melting of polar ice due to global warming is affecting Earth’s rotation and could impact precision timekeeping, according to a paper in the journal Nature.
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is considering setting up a Digital India Trust Agency (DIGITA) to combat the growing menace of illegal lending apps in the country.
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Tamil Nadu based Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KoSO) is celebrating 125 years of groundbreaking research contributing significantly to the global scientific community.
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The state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) came into existence on April 1, 1936 with the bifurcation of the erstwhile Bihar and Orissa Province, and inclusion of a couple of districts from the Madras Presidency.