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TRADE DEFICIT TRADE DEFICIT
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India’s trade deficit in October surged by 141% in October 2025 to $21.8 billion. While this is a seemingly alarming jump, underlying data show that things aren’t a...
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24-Nov 2025
DIGITAL PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION (DPDP) RULES DIGITAL PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION RULES
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The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules (DPDP), 2025 were notified this week, kicking off the formation of the Data Protection Board ...
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17-Nov 2025
STATE ELECTION COMMISSION (SEC) STATE ELECTION COMMISSION (SEC)
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Following the Supreme Court’s directions, Maharashtra will hold local body elections in three phases, beginning on December 2. The first phase ...
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14-Nov 2025
PAY COMMISSION PAY COMMISSION
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The Central government has constituted the 8th Central Pay Commission (CPC) with retired Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai as the Chairperson. It also consists of P...
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11-Nov 2025
CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA (CJI) CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA (CJI)
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Chief Justice of India B R Gavai Monday wrote to the Union government recommending Justice Surya Kant as his successor.
2. What is the proces...
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29-Oct 2025
SPECIAL INTENSIVE REVISION (SIR) SPECIAL INTENSIVE REVISION (SIR)
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The Election Commission (EC) on Monday announced the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in 12 states and Union Territories, wher...
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29-Oct 2025
GYAN BHARAT MISSION GYAN BHARAT MISSION
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The Gyan Bharatam Mission on manuscripts, under the Union Culture Ministry, will on Saturday sign Memorandums of Understanding with around 20 institutes acros...
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25-Oct 2025
BLACKBUCKS
BLACKBUCKS
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In 2018, officials at Chhattisgarh’s Barnawapara Wildlife Sanctuary embarked on an ambitious venture: to revive the blackbuck population 50 years after it had become “...
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20-Oct 2025
CREW ESCAPE SYSTEM (CES) - GAGANYAN
CREW ESCAPE SYSTEM (CES)
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The Gaganyaan mission aims to safely transport Indian astronauts to a low-earth orbit of around 400 km altitude using the human-rated LVM3 (HLVM3) roc...
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15-Oct 2025
TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS
TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS
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The theory of “trickle down” of wealth to the poor underlies policies aimed at boosting business investment through tax cuts, deregulation, subsidies, e...
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14-Oct 2025
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION INTENSITY (GEI)
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION INTENSITY (GEI)
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The Centre has notified the first legally binding Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity (GEI) Target Rules, 2025. 4 high-emission sectors f...
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11-Oct 2025
QUANTUM TUNNELLING
QUANTUM TUNNELLING
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The Nobel Prize for Physics this year will be awarded to three scientists — John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sc...
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08-Oct 2025
WASSENAR AGREEMENT
WASSENAR AGREEMENT
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The modern Internet is built on vast computing backbones that a very small number of companies control. Among them, Microsoft has become indispensable to g...
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30-Sep 2025
NATIONAL MAKHANA BOARD
NATIONAL MAKHANA BOARD
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On 15th September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the National Makhana Board in Purnea, Bihar. The announcement for the creation of the Makhana B...
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26-Sep 2025
POONA PACT
POONA PACT
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24th September holds great importance in Indian history, as it was the day in 1932 when B.R. Ambedkar signed the Poona Pact with Madan Mohan Malviya, who represented G...
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24-Sep 2025