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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 18, Feb 2022
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New India Literacy Programme

Reference News: Government approved a new scheme “New India Literacy Programme for the period FYs 2022-2027 to cover all the aspects of Adult Education to align with National Education Policy 2020 and Budget Announcements 2021-22. The National Educ

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 18, Feb 2022
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India and the Green Hydrogen Potential

Reference News:-India, being a tropical country, has a significant edge in green hydrogen production due to its favourable geographic conditions and abundant natural resources.Producing hydrogen from renewables in India is likely to be cheaper than

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 17, Feb 2022
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Anti-mob lynching bills

Reference News:-Bills passed against mob lynching in the past four years by at least four States have not been implemented with the Union government taking a view that lynching is not defined as a crime under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).These states include J

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 17, Feb 2022
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What is Russia-Ukraine crisis?

Reference News:-Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky recently said he had declared February 16, which U.S. officials had said could be the date of a Russian attack, as a day of “national unity”.However, Russia has clarified that it has no plans to i

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 17, Feb 2022
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Why is Haryana bringing an anti-conversion law?

Reference News:-The Haryana government is set to enact legislation to prevent unlawful religious conversions.So far Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh have enacted legislations to prevent unlawful religious conversions.About

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 17, Feb 2022
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Why did the govt ban more China-linked apps?

Reference News:-The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has banned 54 more apps which have either originated in China or have some Chinese connection.These apps were banned for being a threat to national security.Provisions in thi

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 17, Feb 2022
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HelioSwarm and MUSE

Reference News:-NASA has selected two science missions – the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and HelioSwarm – to help improve our understanding of the dynamics of the Sun, the Sun-Earth connection, and the constantly changing space enviro

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 17, Feb 2022
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Jio Platforms to provide satellite broadband services

Reference News:-Jio has formed a joint-venture with Luxembourg-based SES to deliver satellite broadband services across India.How?The joint venture will use multi-orbit space networks that is a combination of GEO (geostationary equatorial orbit) and MEO (med

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 17, Feb 2022
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Modified Elephant – a hacking group

Reference News:-It was recently found by an American Agency that Modified Elephant, a hacking group, had allegedly planted incriminating evidence on the personal devices of Indian journalists, human rights activists, human rights defenders, academics and lawyers.What

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  • IAS NEXT, Lucknow
  • 17, Feb 2022
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Organization of Islamic Cooperation

Reference News:-India  has condemned the “motivated and misleading statement” made by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which expressed deep concerns over what it called “continued attacks on Muslims in India” and called upo

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