CURRENT AFFAIRS

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 30, Oct 2021

Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi has moved the Gujarat High Court against the Gujarat government’s ₹1,200-crore plan to redevelop Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad.Issues with the project:The redevelopment plan involves extending its area from

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 30, Oct 2021

Why in News?The Centre has proposed amendments to the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 that will enable it to “maintain the database of registered birth and deaths at the national level”.Proposed amendments by the Centre:It is proposed tha

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 30, Oct 2021

Why in News?Environmental think tank Council on Energy, Environment and Water has carried a first-of-its-kind district-level climate vulnerability assessment, or Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI), in which it has analysed 640 districts in India to assess their vulnerability to extre

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 30, Oct 2021

Why in news?The government has launched a nationwide expansion of Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) as a part of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.It was for the first time in the country

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Oct 2021

The Government of India has applied for loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to procure as many as 667 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines.The Manila-based ADB and the Beijing-based AIIB, where China and Indi

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Oct 2021

The Centre has proposed amendments to the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969 that will enable it to “maintain the database of registered birth and deaths at the national level”.Presently, the registration of births and deaths is done by the loca

• 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
• 29, Oct 2021

INSACOG led team has traced a total of 108 mutations of the SARS-Cov-2, which include four novel mutations in India, in the wastewater samples collected from Pune city between December 2020 and April 2021.How important is it for countries to continuously monitor variants and underst