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Facts in News ‘Al-Mohed Al – Hindi’ Exercise Recently, the sea phase of the three days long maiden bilateral exercise ‘Al-Mohed Al – Hindi’ between the Indian Navy and Royal Saudi Naval Force commenced off the coast of Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The two navies undertake co-ordinated action against: Asymmetric threat Replenishment at sea procedures […]

Quad Meeting

In News Recently, Senior officials of Australia, India, Japan, U.S. met at a video conference for the first Quad meeting since March. Key Points Quad leaders exchanged views” on regional issues such as the East and South China seas, where the Chinese navy has had conflicts over territorial rights with other countries, North Korean actions, […]

Afghanistan Offers Taliban Power-Sharing

In News Recently, the Afghanistan Government offered a Taliban power-sharing deal to end the ongoing violence. About The Taliban seized the strategic Afghan city of Ghazni, just 150 kilometres from Kabul. The city lies along the major Kabul-Kandahar highway and serves as a gateway between the capital and militant strongholds in the south. Present Situation […]

Use of Bacteria to Clear up Oil Spills: Study

In News Recently, Scientists confirmed that stimulating bacteria with nutrients in the cold seawaters of the Canadian Arctic can help decompose diesel and other petroleum oil after oil spills Key Points of study The scientists recreated the oceanic atmosphere with sediments from the sea bed, artificial seawater in bottles kept at 4 degrees Celsius. They […]

Global Youth Tobacco Survey(GYTS-4)

In News Recently, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya presided over the release of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS-4) India, 2019. About the Survey The fourth round of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS-4) was conducted in 2019 by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). […]

World Elephant Day

In News On the occasion of World Elephant Day (12th August) the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change released the population estimation protocol to be adopted in the All India elephant and tiger population estimation in 2022. About As per the new protocol, India will move to a system that will count tigers and […]

Indian Express

Indian Express Subject Pg No Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains GS 3 1 1 CII meet: Fixing mistakes of past, retrospective tax move will build trust, says PM Modi 17 cases on tax table, Centre reaches out to companies for closure (Economy) How the abolition of Retrospective Taxation will help businesses? What […]

The Hindu

The Hindu Subject Pg No Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains GS 2 1 BJD demands caste-based enumeration in upcoming Census (Governance) What kind of caste data is published in the Census? How often has the demand for a caste census been made? What has been the current government’s stand? GS […]

Facts in News

Facts in News EOS-03 Satellite Recently, ISRO’s Earth Observation satellite (EOS-03) faced a setback minutes after it was launched. This is the second launch for ISRO in 2021 after its successful mission in February, which was Brazil’s earth observation satellite Amazonia-1 and 18 co-passenger satellites. EOS-03 It is a state-of-the-art agile Earth observation satellite that […]

Collegium System

In News The Supreme Court has alleged the Government of delaying Collegium recommendations on the appointment of judges to High Courts. What are the fallouts of such steps by the executive? High Courts with skeletal judicial strength Delhi High Court will be with less than 50% judges in August 2021, having only 29 judges out […]

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