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[Burning Issue] Anti-defection Law under Spotlight

UPSC 2023 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context We all aspirants are closely observing what has been happening in the state of Maharashtra. Now the rebel leader has moved the Supreme Court against the disqualification notice issued by the deputy speaker to him and some other rebel legislators, calling the… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Anti-defection Law under Spotlight

Odisha’s Mo Bus: Recipient of the UN’s prestigious public service award

Mo Bus, the bus service of Odisha’s Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) authority, has been recognized by the United Nations as one of 10 global recipients of its annual Public Service Awards for 2022. Mo Bus service The Mo Bus service was launched on November 6, 2018. It aimed to ensure transformation of the urban… Continue reading Odisha’s Mo Bus: Recipient of the UN’s prestigious public service award

BRICS

Context China is hosting the 14th BRICS summit in virtual mode. The focus of the summit will be centred on the conflict and the association’s future. About BRICS BRICS is an acronym for the grouping of the world’s leading emerging economies, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS Leaders’ Summit is convened annually. It does… Continue reading BRICS

Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies (AFS)

Context The recently concluded twelfth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) adopted the trade agreement called the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies (AFS). About the AFS WTO negotiations on fisheries subsidies were launched in 2001 at the Doha Ministerial Conference, with a mandate to “clarify and improve” existing WTO disciplines on fisheries subsidies. At… Continue reading Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies (AFS)

Tribes in news: Santhal Tribe

The Santhal community is in the spotlight after a political alliance nominated one of its leaders for the Presidential election, Droupadi Murmu, for the election to the highest Constitutional post of India. Santhal Tribe Santhal, also spelt as Santal, literally means a calm, peaceful man. Santha means calm, and ala means man in the Santhali… Continue reading Tribes in news: Santhal Tribe

Bedti-Varada Interlinking Project

Environmental groups in Karnataka have criticised the project to link the Bedti and Varada rivers in Karnataka, calling it ‘unscientific’ and a ‘waste of public money’. Bedti-Varada Interlinking Project The Bedti-Aghanashini-Varade river-linking project was also included in the country’s major rivers project devised by the then PM Vajpayee government. The Central Government had created a… Continue reading Bedti-Varada Interlinking Project

single-use plastic

The Centre has banned the use of ‘single-use plastic’ from July 1. What is the news? The Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change had issued a gazette notification last year announcing the ban, and has now defined a list of items that will be banned from next month. The manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale… Continue reading single-use plastic

Explained: Occurrence of Lightning

At least 70 people died in lightning strikes across Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. What is lightning? Scientifically, lightning is a rapid and massive discharge of electricity in the atmosphere some of which is directed towards earth. The discharges are generated in giant moisture-bearing clouds that are 10-12 km tall. The base of these… Continue reading Explained: Occurrence of Lightning

Outcomes of the WTO Ministerial Conference

Recently, member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO) wrapped up the Ministerial Conference’s twelfth outing (MC12). Key outcomes: “Geneva Package” The conference has secured key agreements on Relaxing patent regulations to achieve global vaccine equity Ensuring food security According subsidies to the fisheries sector Continuing moratoriums relevant to e-commerce Together they constitute what WTO Director-General… Continue reading Outcomes of the WTO Ministerial Conference

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