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• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 04, Dec 2021

Reference News:After a delay of three years, come March 2022, passengers will be able to use a face scan as their boarding pass at four airports in the country.Airports at Varanasi, Pune, Kolkata and Vijaywada will be the first to roll-out the facial recognition technology-based

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 04, Dec 2021

What is the issue?Tensions have flared in Eastern Europe and on the Belarusian-Polish border with thousands of asylum seekers attempting to enter Poland.Why is there a refugee crisis?Politicians in West and East Europe accuse Moscow as instigator of the crisis amid claims that

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 03, Dec 2021

Reference News: –Global billionaire wealth in 2021 represents 3.5 per cent of global household wealth.Also, the share of the top 0.01 per cent rose from 7 per cent of global wealth in 1995 to 11 per cent in 2021 as per the findings of the latest World Inequality Report 202

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 03, Dec 2021

It is observed on 1st DecemberAIDS is a pandemic disease caused by the infection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which damages the human immune system.It is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition.By damaging immune system, HIV interferes wit

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 03, Dec 2021

Reference News:According to the recently released 'Ericsson Mobility Report':Fifth generation telecom services are likely to account for 39% of mobile subscriptions or about 500 million subscriptions in India at the end of 2027.The total number of smartphone subscripti

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 03, Dec 2021

Reference News:Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech, on 3rd December.The event is being hosted by International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), under the aegis of Government of I

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 03, Dec 2021

Reference News:Government has approved financial aid for the periodup by the Ministry of Commerce and administered by from 2021-22 to 2025-26 to NEIA Trust.What is NEIA?National Export Insurance Account (NEIA) is a trust setNEIA Trust was establish

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 03, Dec 2021

Reference News:More than six lakh Indians renounced citizenship in the past five years, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Lok Sabha.The reason for a large number of Indians surrendering their citizenship was not stated in the reply.The citizenship

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 03, Dec 2021

Reference News:The NASA probe recently made an extremely close encounter with the Sun. The probe was just 5.3 million miles away from the surface of our star and passed by at a ridiculous speed of 363,660 mph, making it the fastest artificial object ever created.Additionall

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 02, Dec 2021

Reference News:-CSIR-IIP Dehradun’s home-grown technology to produce bio-jet fuel has been formally approved for use on military aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF).Key TakeawaysBiojet fuel is prepared from “non-edible tree borne oil” and is procured from