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  • Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
  • 30, Sep 2021
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National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992

Why in news?The Delhi High Court on Thursday extended the deadline given to the Centre to nominate persons to all the vacant positions in the National Commission for Minorities by two months.The High Court had earlier directed that the nomination of all the vacant posi

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 30, Sep 2021
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World Tourism day- 22 September

27th September has been celebrated as World Tourism Day since 1980. It was on this day in 1970 when the Statutes of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) were adopted which are considered a milestone in global tourism.The UNWTO is the Unite

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 30, Sep 2021
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National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA

17th Foundation Day of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) was celebrated on 28 September.About NDMA:The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), is the apex statutory body for Disaster Management in India.It was constituted on 27th Septembe

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 30, Sep 2021
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25 years of Punjab’s desertification in India

The Punjab Vidhan Sabha committee, constituted to study water table depletion, has recently said that the state will turn into a desert in the next 25 years if the present trend of drawing water from underground aquifers continues.This is a prediction that has been

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 30, Sep 2021
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The burden of climate change on New Born children

A study was recently published by Researchers on the impact of Climate Change on children born today.The study is based on data from the Inter-sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP).How was the study carried out?The ISIMIP data were used alongside country

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 30, Sep 2021
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Caste census: Government’s objections to a caste census

The Union government last week told the Supreme Court that the caste-based data enumerated in the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) of 2011 was “unusable”, but in 2016, the Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of India had informed the S

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 30, Sep 2021
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National Action Plan for dog Mediated Rabies Elimination

On the occasion of World Rabies Day, central Government has unveiled the ‘National Action Plan for dog Mediated Rabies Elimination’(NAPRE) by 2030.The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has drafted the action plan in consultation with the Mi

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 30, Sep 2021
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MSP & FRP-Safety net for the farmers

MSP and FRP ( Minimum support price vs Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcaneA ‘safety net’ for the farmers, the MSP is the core of the agricultural revolution that saw India transforming from a food-deficient to a food-surplus nation. Over the years, the MSP has

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 30, Sep 2021
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Anti-defection law, for Independent legislators

Independent MLA from Gujarat’s Vadgam constituency, Jignesh Mevani, has pledged support to the Congress party, saying though he has not formally joined the Congress, he has joined the party’s ideology. Hence, provisions of the Tenth Schedule do not appl

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  • Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
  • 29, Sep 2021
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Nuclear Medicine

Why in  News?Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), the premier research organization of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), has evolved a design for the first PPP Research Reactor for production of Nuclear MedicinesWhat  is Nuclear Medicines?Nuclear medi

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