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• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 21, Dec 2021

Reference News:-The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 seeks to amend the Representation of the People Act to bring in key reforms including voluntary linkage of voter ID with Aadhaar.Need for linking of Aadhaar and Voter ID:This has been a demand of the El

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 21, Dec 2021

Why in News?Recently ,Jia Rai, a 12-year-old girl from a naval family, swam 36 km to create awareness about autism spectrum disorder.What is Autism?Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder is a lifelong developmental disability that manifests itself during the first t

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 21, Dec 2021

Reference News:-On December 18, a man was lynched to death by the Sikh Sangat (Sikh devotees) in Shri Harmandir Sahib Gurudwara (Golden Temple) in Amritsar over an alleged attempt to disrespect the holiest book of Sikh religion, Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.Reports suggest the grou

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Dec 2021

Context:The Cabinet has decided to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21. This decision is based on the recommendation of a panel led by Jaya Jaitly.Task force:Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech last year proposed a pan

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Dec 2021

Context:Nearly two years after it was constituted on 11 December 2019, the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, headed by BJP MP P.P. Chaudhary, has presented its final report on the upcoming bill in both Houses of Parliament on 16 December

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Dec 2021

Context:The Supreme Court has allowed Maharashtra to hold bullock cart races in the state till the pendency of the matter before the constitutional Bench of the apex court. It is a 400-year-old tradition.What’s the issue?Bullock cart races were banned in Maharashtra afte

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Dec 2021

Context:The Tamil Nadu government has declared Tamil Thai Vaazhthu, a prayer song sung in praise of Mother Tamil, as the State Song.A Government Order (GO) had been issued directing that everyone who is present during the rendition of the song, barring d

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 20, Dec 2021

Why in news?the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, headed by BJP MP P.P. Chaudhary, has  recently presented its final report on the upcoming bill in both Houses of Parliament on 16 December.Key recommendations:Remove the word &lsquo

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 20, Dec 2021

Why in News?Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech last year proposed a panel on the “age of a girl entering motherhood” to lower maternal mortality rates and improve nutrition levels.But when the decision to appoint a task force was annou

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Dec 2021

Context:The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has frozen its approval given in November 2019 to Amazon’s investment in a Future Group unit on the grounds that the U.S. e-commerce company had suppressed the scope and full details of its investment while seeking re