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• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 31, Jan 2022

Reference News:-The term ‘gain of function research’ has recently cropped up in the debate about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.What is Gain-of-function Research?‘Gain of function’ is a field of research focused on growing ge

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 31, Jan 2022

Reference News:-The Supreme Court has set aside the Maharashtra Assembly’s decision to suspend 12 legislators of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for a one-year period beginning July 5, 2021.Observations made by the Supreme Court:Suspension bey

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 31, Jan 2022

Reference News:-According to the data furnished by the Office of the Development Commissioner in the Union Ministry of MSME:Maharashtra tops India’s list in the number of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) owned by entrepreneurs from the Schedul

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 31, Jan 2022

Reference News:-The Supreme Court has turned down the Union government’s plea to do away with the requirement of collecting quantifiable data by the Centre and states to determine the representation of people belonging to Scheduled Castes (SCs) 

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 31, Jan 2022

Reference News:-In the post-COVID world, there will be new challenges- failure of climate action, re-emergence of infectious diseases, debt crises and inadequate tech regulation, erosion of social cohesion – which requires different governance model.When the instituti

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 31, Jan 2022

Reference News:-The Supreme Court in its recent judgment has observed that:A nation aspiring to be a “world leader” should debate on the welfare of its citizens rather than make Parliament a stage to exchange jeers and launch personal attacks on one an

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 31, Jan 2022

Launched in the early 20th century, the Swadeshi movement was a direct consequence of the British India government’s decision to partition Bengal. The two main goals of this movement were the use of Swadeshi goods and the boycott of foreign-made goods. Here in

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 31, Jan 2022

Reference News:-Banks have finalised plans to transfer by the end of this fiscal year 15 Non-Performing Asset (NPA) accounts worth Rs. 50,000 crore to the National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd. (NARCL), or the ‘bad bank’ set up to help resolve the stress.N

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Jan 2022

Reference News:-First India-Central Asia Summit was recently hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attended by the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.The India-Central Asia summit marked 30 y

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Jan 2022

Reference News:-India is looking at some large capacity additions in the years ahead to reach the target of 300 GW of solar by 2030.The country’s cumulative installed solar capacity at the end of Q3 2021 stood at approximately 47 GW.With the Union Budget to