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• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 15, Feb 2022

Reference News:-India signed an agreement with the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) for the distribution of 50,000 MT of wheat that it has committed to sending Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian assistance.According to the MoU, the wheat will be

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 15, Feb 2022

Reference News:-The Supreme Court has refused to intervene in a petition challenging sections of the Right to Education Act of 2009 which exclude vedic pathsalas , madrasas and institutions imparting religious education from its ambit.The Court

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 14, Feb 2022

Reference News:-The Supreme Court recently decided to examine a habeas corpus plea made by the children of a Pakistan national who they believe has been unlawfully detained for seven years.Important value additions The Indian Constitution empowers the Supreme

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 14, Feb 2022

Reference News:-West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee has dismissed the petition filed by Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari seeking Mukul Roy’s disqualification as an MLA under the anti-defection law for switching sides after elections.Roy

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 14, Feb 2022

Reference News:-Amid the row over wearing hijab in schools and colleges, Union Minister and BJP leader Giriraj Singh has said the Uniform Civil Code is the “need of the hour” and it should be discussed both in Parliament and in society.What’s the is

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 12, Feb 2022

Why in News? The Supreme Court stated that instead of assuring rapid state intervention for protecting women against cruelty by her husband, Section 498A is increasingly being used to settle personal scores against in-laws.BackgroundIn a case fi

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 12, Feb 2022

Why in  News?Favouring the anti-death penalty cause, SC said that judges across the country must look at the mitigating factors in favour of life imprisonment, rather than prescribing the death penalty with an eye only on the abhorrence of the crime.Backgro

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 11, Feb 2022

Reference News:-There is consensus among policymakers for privatisation of public sector undertakings (PSUs), especially in neo-liberal world order, for its ability to grow faster. What is the reality of Privatisation?Performance of Privatised Firms not g

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 10, Feb 2022

Reference News-The Tamil Nadu Assembly has once again adopted a Bill that was earlier returned by Governor R.N. Ravi. The Bill seeks to grant exemption from the mandatory National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) for seats allotted by the Government&

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 09, Feb 2022

Context:The Kerala governor has signed the ordinance proposing amendments to the Kerala Lok Ayukta Act, 1999, that makes the agency’s orders not binding on the government.Amendments to the Kerala Lok Ayukta Act, 1999:The government can “either acce