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• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Jan 2022

Reference News:-The Federal Reserve has made it clear that the federal funds rate will be moving higher soon and the surplus liquidity that was fuelling the asset price boom in global markets will be withdrawn early.What will be the major policy moves of Fed Reserve?

• 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

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 28, Jan 2022

Why in  News?Transparency International has ranked India at 85 among 180 countries in its Corruption Perception Index report released recently.Key FindingsWorld:Overall, two-thirds of the 168 countries on the 2015 index scored below 50, on a scale fro

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 27, Jan 2022

Reference News:-China recently flew 39 warplanes toward Taiwan in its largest such sortie of the new year, continuing a pattern that the island has answered by scrambling its own jets in response.Rationale behind such acts:China often mounts such missions to express dis

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 27, Jan 2022

Reference News:-The details of the recently released draft environment impact assessment (EIA) report for the mega development project in the Great Nicobar Island have raised serious questions.The questions are related to submission of incorrect or incomplete info

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 27, Jan 2022

Reference News:-Experts have expressed “serious concerns over the slow pace of reforms in the criminal justice system to ensure speedy justice”.Current concerns/challenges:The delay in disposal of cases was leading to human rights violations of the under-tri

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 27, Jan 2022

Reference News:-A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to seize the election symbol or de-register a political party that promises or distributes “irrational freebies”&n

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 27, Jan 2022

Reference News:-Amid the rising tensions over Russia’s military buildup around Ukraine, NATO allies have put forces on standby and sent ships and fighter jets to bolster Europe’s eastern defences.What is the conflict all about?Tensions betwe

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 27, Jan 2022

Reference News:-The Supreme Court is expected to begin hearing a fresh challenge to the provision allowing restitution of conjugal rights under Hindu personal laws.About Conjugal rightsSection 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 deals with restitution

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 27, Jan 2022

Reference News:-The concept of Web3, also called Web 3.0, used to describe a potential next phase of the internet, created quite a buzz in 2021. The model, a decentralised internet to be run on blockchain technology, would be different from the versions