CURRENT AFFAIRS

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 09, Nov 2021

Reference News:Chief Minister M K Stalin has said the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 will not be implemented in Tamil Nadu. An expert committee would be formed soon to prepare a new education policy of the state.Why is Tamil Nadu opposed to NEP?Tamil Nadu&

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 01, Nov 2021

According to its own financial statement, the Mahtama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act(MGNREGA) scheme has run out of funds halfway through the financial year, and supplementary budgetary allocations will not come to the rescue for at least another month when t

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 01, Nov 2021

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has asked for exemption from the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Law.Why?UIDAI functionaries said the authority is already being governed by the Aadhaar Act and there cannot be duplicity of laws.The Personal 

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 30, Oct 2021

The Ministry of Women and Child Development has proposed the draft amendments to Juvenile Justice Model Rules, 2016.This follows the passage of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) (JJ) Amendment Bill, 2021, in Parliament.As per the pr

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Oct 2021

Supreme Court has made few observations regarding the applicability of judicial review in matters related to ‘National Security’ of the Country.What’s the issue?The Court was responding to submissions made by Solicitor-General for the Centre, in the Peg

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Oct 2021

The All-India Debt and Investment Surveys (AIDIS), carried out by the National Statistical Office (NSO) are among the most important nationally representative data sources on the rural credit market in India.Recently published, the AIDIS report reveals that non-i

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Oct 2021

Stressing that the power of the state to snoop in the name of national security into the “sacred private space” of individuals is not absolute, the Supreme Court has appointed an expert technical committee overseen by former Supreme Court judge R.V. Raveendran to

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Oct 2021

Students in Srinagar who led the celebrations of Pakistan’s victory over India in recent T20 World Cup cricket match will be charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).The students will also be marked as overground workers (OGWs) of anti-India orga

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Oct 2021

The latest form of the National Population Register (NPR) appears to have retained contentious questions such as “mother tongue, place of birth of father and mother and last place of residence”, according to a document compiled by a committee under the

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Oct 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently launched the Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, one of the largest pan-India schemes for strengthening healthcare infrastructure, in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi.About the scheme:The scheme aims at