CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 27, Dec 2021

Why in News?Prime Minister launches a Portal and Logo dedicated to the Conformity Assessment Scheme of milk products, in Varanasi’ published in PIB on 23rd Dec 2021.“PM inaugurates and lays the foundation of multiple projects in Varanasi”

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 24, Dec 2021

Reference News-As Parliament adjourned sine die recently, the presiding officers of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha expressed concern over the continuous disruption.Performance of the houses:Rajya Sabha utilised only 47.9% of its allotted time during the 18 sittings. Out of

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 24, Dec 2021

Reference News-  The Panchayati Raj system of local self-government was introduced by the 73rd Amendment of the Constitution of India. Part IX was inserted in the Constitution as a sequel to the 73rd Constitutional Amendment in 1993, bestowing the Constitutional mandatory

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 24, Dec 2021

Reference News-The Centre has disagreed with India’s low rank on the World Press Freedom Index prepared by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders.What’s the issue?The government claimed that the report was based on a small sample size and gave l

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 23, Dec 2021

Why in news?The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill 2021 has been passed in both houses of Parliament enabling the linking of electoral roll data with the Aadhaar ecosystem.What is the government’s rationale?A Parliamentary Standing Committee report on demands of grants of th

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 21, Dec 2021

Reference News:-The Government of India has told in the Lok Sabha that the Data recorded in the Poshan (Nutrition) Tracker have not been made public in the interest of privacy of women and children.The objective is to honour the privacy of women and children who are service

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Dec 2021

Context:Nearly two years after it was constituted on 11 December 2019, the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, headed by BJP MP P.P. Chaudhary, has presented its final report on the upcoming bill in both Houses of Parliament on 16 December

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Dec 2021

Context:The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has frozen its approval given in November 2019 to Amazon’s investment in a Future Group unit on the grounds that the U.S. e-commerce company had suppressed the scope and full details of its investment while seeking re

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 17, Dec 2021

Reference News:Nitish Kumar has again raised his nearly 15-year-old demand for the status of special category state (SCS) for Bihar. Nitish has been seeking SCS for Bihar since at least 2007.Bihar’s development vis-a-vis other states:The latest report of t

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 16, Dec 2021

Reference News-The centennial celebrations of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee was recently held.About PAC:The PAC is formed every year with a strength of not more than 22 members of which 15 are from Lok Sabha and 7 from Rajya Sabha.