CURRENT AFFAIRS

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 07, Dec 2021

Reference News:The Assam Police have charged the editor and co-owner of a local news portal in the Barak Valley with sedition (under 124A) for an editorial deemed to promote enmity between the Assamese and Bengali-speaking people of the State.The Barak Valley

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 04, Dec 2021

Reference News:The Rajya Sabha has passed the Dam Safety Bill, 2019.The Bill was passed in the Lok Sabha on 2 August, 2019.Concerns raised:The bill is too focused on structural safety and not on operational safety.There is inadequate compensation to the people affe

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 03, Dec 2021

Reference News:More than six lakh Indians renounced citizenship in the past five years, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Lok Sabha.The reason for a large number of Indians surrendering their citizenship was not stated in the reply.The citizenship

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 02, Dec 2021

Context:A year after the High Court struck down the Roshni Act, the Jammu and Kashmir government has now begun an exercise to retrieve the land granted under this Act to beneficiaries.Background:There are allegations related to irregularities in the implementation of the Ja

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 01, Dec 2021

Reference News:The Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana has urged the Government to seriously consider Attorney General K.K.Venugopal’s suggestion to restructure the judiciary to include four National Court of Appeal.He remarked that the judicial structure has rema

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 01, Dec 2021

Reference News:Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Prahlad Joshi sought the approval of the House for suspending 12 Rajya Sabha MPs for the remainder of the session.The reason for their suspension was “their unprecedented acts of misconduct, contemptuous, unr

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 30, Nov 2021

Reference News:The international talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, will take place soon.The talks will be held between the remaining partners to the deal — Iran, China, Russia, Germany

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 30, Nov 2021

Reference News:Floor leaders of the Rajya Sabha have expressed concern over the Chief Justice of India’s recent remarks on Disruptions in Parliament.The floor leaders said it is for the Presiding Officers to take appropriate action if the norms of functioning are bein

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 30, Nov 2021

Reference News:Madhya Pradesh government has initiated a massive tribal outreach programme in the state.Important tribes in the state include Bhils and Gonds.As part of the tribals outreach programme, the state has undertaken the following measures:Implementation of

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Nov 2021

Context:The Uttar Pradesh Police have registered a total of 108 cases under a controversial ordinance that criminalises religious conversion by “force, undue influence, coercion, or allurement”.The Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020, wh