UPSC Current Affairs04 October 2023UPSCUnlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA)Context: Two NewsClickemployees – editor Prabir Purkayastha and administrator Amit Chakravarty – were arrested by the Delhi police under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs04 October 2023UPSCNagorno-Karabakh standoffContext: Recently, Azerbaijan claimed full control over the contentious NagornoKarabakh region after local forces, mostly Armenians, agreed to disarm and disband. Hundreds of local Armen...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs03 October 2023UPSCNobel Prize in Medicine 2023: How Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman’s work helped develop Covid vaccinesWhat are mRNA vaccines, why they were crucial during Covid Traditionally, vaccines have depended on introducing dead or weakened viruses into the human body, so it can develop antibodies...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs03 October 2023UPSCNashik onion traders on strike: What are their demands, and could this affect onion prices?Why are Nashik’s onion traders on strike? On September 21, the traders and commission agents of the 15 wholesale markets in Nashik decided to start their indefinite strike, to protest aga...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs03 October 2023UPSCGENERATIVE AIGenerative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is creating waves all over the world, enabling ChatGPT to race to 100 million subscribers in an unprecedented two months. Generative AI refers t...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs03 October 2023UPSCMinimum Support PriceAbout: Minimum Support Price (MSP) is a form of market intervention by the Government of India to insure agricultural producers against any sharp fall in farm prices. The minimum support...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs03 October 2023UPSCMRNA Vaccine and noble prizeContext: The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to scientists katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, whose work enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. What...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs02 October 2023UPSCCommercial SpywareWhy in news: Between May and September, former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy was targeted with Cytrox’s Predator spyware sent via links on SMS and WhatsApp. Spyware is loosely defined as ma...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs02 October 2023UPSCHOUSE REPORT ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIARecently , a parliamentary committee has recommended that the protected monuments list should be “rationalised and categorised” on the basis of their national significance, unique archite...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs02 October 2023UPSCPakistan bomb blast: Why Balochistan remains a problem province for PakA ‘forced’ accession At the time of independence, the region comprised Makran, Las Bela, Kharan and Kalat, the tribal chiefs of which had sworn allegiance to the British. The chief of Kal...Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs01 October 2023UPSCNational Green Hydrogen MissionWhy in news: The Union Cabinet recently approved a ₹19,744 crore National Green Hydrogen mission that aims to make India a ‘global hub’ for using, producing and exporting green hydrogen....Study this topic →
UPSC Current Affairs01 October 2023UPSCTuberculosisContext: According to a recent research one in two tuberculosis patients either has diabetes or prediabetes, that is every other TB patient has some sort of glucose metabolism disorder....Study this topic →