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• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 28, Mar 2022

Why in News?The envoys to India of nine Eastern European countries called Bucharest Nine jointly wrote to acquaint the Indian public with the basic facts on the ground” about the “premeditated, unprovoked and unjustified Russian aggression in Ukraine”.

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Mar 2022

Reference News:-Both Voyager spacecraft are rushing away from Earth and into interstellar space. Yet for a portion of every year, both spacecrafts’ distances to Earth decrease.Why is it so?The answer is that for a few months each year, Earth in its orbit moves tow

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 28, Mar 2022

Why in News?The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has announced a hike in prices of around 800 essential drugs from 1 April. These drugs are included in the National Essential List of Medicine (NELM).The rise in drug prices works out at around

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Mar 2022

Reference News:-GSAT-7B satellite, which recently got the acceptance of necessity from the Defence Ministry, will be a dedicated satellite for the Indian Army.The satellite would help the Indian Army enhance its surveillance in border areas.Significance of t

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Mar 2022

Reference News:-The bill will be tabled in the Parliament.It aims to merge the Capital’s three municipal corporations — South, North and East — ten years after the trifurcation of the civic body.In 2011, the state government had proposed&

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Mar 2022

Reference News:-Recently, high levels of lead were found in the blood of thousands of children living around the Kabwe mine in Zambia.How lead affects children?Lead is a potent neurotoxin that causes irreparable harm to children’s brains.It is pa

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Mar 2022

Reference News:-NITI Aayog, in collaboration with the Institute of Competitiveness, has released the second edition of the Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2021.The first Index was launched in August 2020.About the Index:The Export Prepa

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 28, Mar 2022

Reference News:-The Supreme Court has refused to entertain an appeal challenging an Allahabad High Court order which rejected a challenge to the constitutional validity of the PM-CARES Fund.What’s the issue?The High Court had dismissed the PIL which

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 26, Mar 2022

Context:Since March 24, 2020, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been issuing orders and inguidelines for the containment of Covid-19 under the Disaster Management Act, 2005.Under what section of The Disaster Management Act has the MHA been issuing orde

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 26, Mar 2022

Context:There has been some debate on whether India chose the wrong path to approach the UN. In 2019, Home Minister Amit Shah said that had Nehru taken the matter to the UN under Article 51 of the UN Charter, instead of Article 35, the outcome could h