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• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 22, Oct 2021

Hardoi MLA Nitin Agrawal has been elected Deputy Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, which has barely five months left in its tenure.How are they elected?Article 93 for Lok Sabha and Article 178 for state Assemblies state that these Houses “shall, as soon as may be”

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 21, Oct 2021

What is it?Geospatial Energy Map, enables visualisation of energy installations such as conventional power plants, oil and gas wells, petroleum refineries, coal fields and coal blocks, district-wise data on renewable energy power plants and renewable energy resource potent

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 21, Oct 2021

The Attorney General for India KK Venugopal recently declined to grant consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against the National President of Azad Samaj Party, Chandra Shekhar Azad for his comments levelling allegations against the judges of the Supreme Court.

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Oct 2021

World Food Day is being celebrated every year on October 16 to commemorate the date of the founding of the  the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation in 1945.The theme for World Food Day this year is “Our actions are our future- Better produ

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Oct 2021

The Supreme Court has held that a superior court can set aside an anticipatory bail order if there was enough material to suggest that factors like gravity of the offence and the role of the accused in the crime were not considered by the lower court. The concept of a

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 18, Oct 2021

India gets re-elected to UN Human Rights Council for 6th term with overwhelming majority.Besides, the US has also joined more than three years after the Trump administration quit the UNHRC over what it called chronic bias against Israel and a lack of reform.Background

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 18, Oct 2021

The recent lynching of a man at Singhu, at the site of the farmers’ protest on the Delhi-Haryana border, the brutality of the hate crime captured and replayed on video, calls for the full force of the law to step in, to bring swift and sure punishment to the guilty.W

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 18, Oct 2021

The Union Cabinet has approved the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation 2.0 (AMRUT 2.0) till 2025-26.This is a step towards Aatma Nirbhar Bharat intending to make the cities ‘water secure and self-sustainable’ through circular economy of wat

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 18, Oct 2021

“PM GatiShakti — National Master Plan” for infrastructure development has been launched.It aims to boost multimodal connectivity and drive down logistics costs.About PM GatiShakti:It is a digital platform that connects 16 ministries — in

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 14, Oct 2021

GST Network has said it has blocked Rs 14,000 crore worth of input tax credit (ITC) of 66,000 businesses registered under the Goods and Service Tax.Background:The government had introduced Rule 86A in GST rules in December 2019 giving powers to taxmen to block the ITC available in