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The results of the Lok Sabha elections were declared last week. The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has won 293 seats with a 43.3% vote share while the Opposition bloc INDIA (including Trinamool Congress) has secured 234 seats with a 41.6% vote share.
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A seven-judge Bench of the Supreme Court started hearing the matter pertaining to Aligarh Muslim University’s (AMU) minority character.
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Recently, India has officially become a part of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project.
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“It is said that history does not repeat itself, but often rhymes.” The last two years are too recent to be consigned to “history”, but some of the most significant incidents of 2022 and 2023 in the strategic domain could be extrapolated to the composite Indian national security challenge in the year ahead.
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The data and terminology relating to diseases based on Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani systems will now be included in the WHOs ICD11 classification.
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The International Purple Festival began in Goa, heralding six days of celebration and empowerment for Persons with Disabilities.
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Formalising and integrating waste pickers into the municipal waste management system is not only a matter of social justice but also environmental necessity.
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India is set to bolster its strategic influence in South Asia by developing a new terminal and operating the Mongla Port in Bangladesh.
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Catla is one of the top ten species items mentioned in the "The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024" report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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The Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim Bank) has opened an East Africa Representative Office in Nairobi, Kenya to enhance India's business presence in the region.
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The Ministry of Health and the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) are launching the National Health Claim Exchange (NHCX), as part of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.
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Every year, World Oceans Day is marked on June 8 to raise awareness about the critical importance of preserving the seas and protecting ocean resources from depletion.
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) unveiled its latest bi-monthly monetary policy review and, for the eighth time in a row, decided that it would not change the benchmark policy rate, also called the repo rate.
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Transporters and commercial drivers from States like Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, and Punjab have staged protests against the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) concerning hit-and-run incidents.
GS Paper III
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The authors Jean Drèze and Christian Oldiges, explore the perplexing factors that contribute to the significant discrepancy between India’s annual cereal production and consumption numbers.
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A team at Stanford University has found the absorption capacity of a sisal-based material to be higher than that of commercial menstrual pads.
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The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has initiated crude oil production from its substantial deep-sea project in the KG-DWN-98/2 block of the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin.
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The Peregrine One mission which aims to locate water molecules on the Moon has now developed a critical fuel leak.
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The Unicef recently released a report titled "Child Food Poverty report" which sheds light on a distressing reality that demands urgent attention and action regarding severe child food poverty.
GS Paper III
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As the Reserve Bank of India enters its centenary year, RBI@100, it will step up even more to be future-ready for India's fast-growing economy. On April 1 this year, RBI entered the 90th year of its operations.
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NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) and the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) have announced a landmark partnership to introduce a UPI-like real-time payments system in Peru making it the first South American country to adopt the system.
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In a major boost to global efforts to monitor and mitigate climate change, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is collaborating with the French Space Agency (CNES) on an ambitious new satellite mission called Trishna.
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India has added two bird sanctuaries from Bihar, Nagi and Nakti, to the ‘Ramsar Sites’ list, taking the tally to 82.
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Delegates from 198 countries are meeting in Bonn, Germany to prepare for COP29 to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024.
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On June 7, 1893, a young lawyer named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was unceremoniously thrown off a train’s first class compartment reserved for ‘whites only’, at the Pietermaritzburg railway station in South Africa. This triggered Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience, or satyagraha.
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India, South Korea, USA, Japan, European Union (EU) launch Biopharmaceutical Alliance.
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The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of RBI met from June 5 to 7, and held steady the repo rate at 6.5% for the eighth consecutive meeting.
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In ecology, the term ‘gape limitation’ stands for the idea that a predator can only eat things that fit in its mouth.
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A century after the EEG was discovered, it remains a crucial tool for understanding the brain.
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The heads of all tri-service military institutions gathered in New Delhi, for the first-ever tri-service planning conference called the ‘Parivartan Chintan’.
