GS Paper - II
In the wake of several Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holders complaining about being reclassified as “foreigners”, the Ministry of External Affairssaid that there were no changes made to the OCI rules.
GS Paper - II
A family of four Pakistani nationals, living under the false name of Sharma, was arrested from the outskirts of Bengaluru on 29 September 2024.They had been living in India illegally since 2014. The four have told the police they are linked to the Mehdi Foundation International (MFI), for which they faced persecution in Pakistan.
GS Paper - III
Marking a major step towards becoming a world-class manufacturer of electronic components, Keltron Component Complex Limited (KCCL) has set up India’s first super-capacitor production facility at Kannur.
GS Paper - III
Mars today is a cold and barren desert, but this was not always the case. Increasingly, new evidence suggests that water flowed on the Martian surface once upon a time. This means that a thick atmosphere would have had to envelope the planet, to keep this water from freezing.
GS Paper - II
Britain will become the first G7 country to end coal-fired power production on 30 September 2024 with the closure of its last plant, Uniper’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar in England’s Midlands. It will end over 140 years of coal power in Britain.
GS Paper - II
Switzerland police arrested at least four persons recently for their involvement in the death of a 64-year-old American woman by a ‘suicide pod’. The woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, reportedly suffered from an autoimmune condition for years.
GS Paper - II
The Pentagon has announced that the United States will deploy several thousand additional troops to the Middle East to strengthen security and defend Israel if required. This move comes amid escalating tensions, with Israel already conducting limited raids across the border into Lebanon.
GS Paper - III
CERN’s 70th anniversary celebrations in 2024 may be its biggest achievement since scientists there detected the “elusive” Higgs boson particle in 2012. Over a decade later, CERN scientists are still smashing subatomic particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) but have not reported any comparable discoveries since the Higgs boson.
GS Paper - III
CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury, who died, donated his body to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). This is not a decision that a lot of people in India make. But perhaps they should.
GS Paper - III
The mysteries of the universe are beyond imagination. Earth, the only planet in our solar system known to support life and home to a natural satellite—the moon—is now getting a temporary “mini-moon.” Like our regular moon, this celestial body will orbit Earth, but only for a brief period.
GS Paper - II
The Top 50 Oldest Living People in the world today are all women. Ranging from Tomiko Itooka, 116 years (Japan) to Agnes Brostom, 112 years (Sweden). There are many explanations why women outlive men — from the profoundly scientific to the perfectly silly. Even the Oldest Living Male today, John Tinniswood of the UK— 112 years this August — is relatively a youngster compared to the 50 women older than him.
GS Paper - II
In a landmark move, BrahMos Aerospace, the India-Russia joint venture, has become the first company in India’s defence sector to formally reserve employment opportunities for Agniveers—young military personnel enlisted under the Government of India’s Agnipath Scheme.
GS Paper - III
The ocean is overflowing, warned UN secretary general Antonio Guterres at a visit to Tonga. The archipelago in the South Pacific is one of several countries in the region that are severely and disproportionately threatened by sea level rise. And while low-lying islands are particularly vulnerable, many coastal communities and cities worldwide are already struggling with more destructive floods and storms that endanger lives, jobs and crucial infrastructure.
GS Paper - III
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) officially approved a $7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Pakistan, two months after the agency had reached a staff-level agreement for the same with Islamabad.
GS Paper - II
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israeli forces would continue to strike Lebanon with “full force” until the Shiite militant group Hezbollah stops firing rockets at Israel. Israeli military vehicles were transporting tanks and armoured vehicles toward the northern border with Lebanon, indicating an imminent escalation of hostilities. The Israel-Hezbollah conflict has deep roots in the history of southern Lebanon.
GS Paper - III
India has ascended 42 positions in the Global Innovation Index (GII) since 2015 and now ranks 39th out of 133 economies evaluated. The latest GII report released on 27 September 2024, showed India's remarkable progress in fostering an innovative ecosystem.
GS Paper - III
Prime Minister virtually launched three Param Rudra Super Computing Systems and a High Performance Computing (HPC) system for weather and climate research. India takes significant step towards self-reliance in computing and driving innovation in science and tech.
GS Paper - II
The Karnataka government withdrew its general consent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is instrumental in the central agency conducting investigations in the states. Karnataka is among the eight states that have withdrawn general consent for the CBI, with all others (such as Punjab, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu).
GS Paper - II
The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer reaffirmed its support for a permanent seat for India at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), a long-standing demand of Delhi. Addressing the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for the first time, Starmer said that the UNSC needs to be a more representative body.
GS Paper - III
In a significant milestone for India’s space sector, TakeMe2Space, a domestic nano-satellite development company, and Azista Aerospace, a satellite development and manufacturing firm, have partnered to establish the country’s first POEM (PSLV Orbital Experimental Module) Experience Centre in Ahmedabad. This collaborative effort is set to transform how academia, researchers, and startups engage with space experimentation, opening new doors to innovation and accessibility.
GS Paper - II
The Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma set the ball rolling for the implementation of 52 recommendations of the Justice Biplab Sarma Committee regarding Clause 6 of the Assam Accord, as announced by the Assam government. This comes more than four years after the Centre-appointed high-level committee finalised its report in February 2020.
GS Paper - II
Israel on 26 September 2024 ruled out a ceasefire proposal with Hezbollah in Lebanon, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office calling the news about truce “false”, while asserting that this was an American-French proposal, to which the prime minister has not even responded.
GS Paper - II
The Wall Street Journal published a highly critical report on Neom, the ambitious Saudi megacity project championed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Saudi Arabia’s Neom project contends with corruption, worker deaths, racism and misogyny, The WSJ report said.
GS Paper - II
India has now surpassed Japan to become the third-largest power on the continent, according to the Asia Power Index. This shift in dynamics reflects India's “increasing geopolitical stature, dynamic growth, youthful population, and expanding economy”, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said.
GS Paper - II
Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands on 25 September 2024, decided to take Taliban to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over gender discrimination, marking the first time the court in The Hague has been used for such a case.
GS Paper - II
India is now formally a part of the Minerals Security Finance Network, a US-led initiative aiming to strengthen cooperation among members to secure supply chains for critical minerals. The announcement, made by the US State Department on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, involved a pact entered by 14 countries and the European Union.
GS Paper - II
The three new criminal laws – Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam – were all rolled. There was considerable apprehension that there would be confusion at the police station level in the registration of cases. And with the Indian Penal Code and BNS running simultaneously for the next one or two decades, the investigators, prosecutors and even the judiciary would face problems.
GS Paper - III
The Union Cabinet approved India’s first mission to Venus which ISRO aims to launch in March 2028. This is the country’s second interplanetary mission after the Mars Orbiter Mission launched in 2013. The Venus mission is meant to study the planet from an orbit around it.
GS Paper - III
As cities across India report a surge in dengue cases, a record number of cases have been reported around the world this year with Brazil and other South American countries worst affected. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the number of dengue cases has been increasing year-on-year.
GS Paper - II
Travel may be the most effective weapon to slow down the process of ageing, a new study published in the Journal of Travel Research.
- South America is burning
- Supreme Court Order On Child Pornography
- Semiconductor fab for national security
- Pragyan rover discovers big crater
- Azerbaijan’s new climate fund
- Cancer Moonshot Initiative
- Earth had have a Saturn-like ring
- Joint coast guard exercises
- Scholarship for Indo-Pacific students
- Unintended electromagnetic radiation (UEMR)
Book A Free Counseling Session
What's Today
Reviews
