CURRENT AFFAIRS

• 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

China has called for an expedition in negotiations with ASEAN countries on a code of conduct framework for the South China Sea.Background:Next year is the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC). Chin

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Oct 2021

The term ‘Naxal’ derives from the name of the village Naxalbari in West Bengal, where the movement had its origin.Naxalbari uprising was an armed peasant revolt in 1967 in the Naxalbari block of the Siliguri subdivision in Darjeeling district, West Be

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Oct 2021

AIIB has said that it would look to fund both social as well as climate-resilient infrastructure in India in the coming years.Meanwhile, it has also asked India to strike a balance between ramping up physical infrastructure and the social infrastructure such as healthcare sys

• 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 

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Oct 2021

AY.4.2 is a descendant of the Delta variant of COVID-19. The Delta variant, also known as B.1.617.2, was first identified in India in October 2020.The AY.4.2 (dubbed “Delta Plus” and now named VUI-21OCT-01 by the UK Health Security Ag

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Oct 2021

The Civil Aviation Ministry has notified a traffic management framework for drones.The framework has been issued under the Drone Rules 2021.Overview of the framework:Public and private third-party service providers will manage their movement in the airspace u

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 27, Oct 2021

Why in News?PM has recently addressed the India-Australia Circular Economy Hackathon (I-ACE)What is Circular Economy?It is an economy where products are designed for durability, reuse and recyclability and thus almost everything gets reused, remanufactured, and recycled int

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 27, Oct 2021

The Karnataka Government has objected to a petition in the Supreme Court to “identify, detain and deport" Rohingya within a year, stating that there is no reason to take coercive action against or immediately deport them.What’s the issue?A petition has