CURRENT AFFAIRS

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Nov 2021

Context:Telangana’s Ramappa Temple is receiving massive focus after it received UNESCO tag recently.About the Temple:Situated in Telangana’s Warangal, the temple stands on a six-feet high star-shaped platform with walls, pillars and ceilings adorned with

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Nov 2021

Context:The Uttar Pradesh Police have registered a total of 108 cases under a controversial ordinance that criminalises religious conversion by “force, undue influence, coercion, or allurement”.The Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020, wh

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Nov 2021

Context:The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has kept in abeyance a recommendation by an internal panel to give banking licences to large business groups, while allowing promoters to own up to 26% in private banks.What has happened?The IWG was constituted to &ldqu

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Nov 2021

Context:Researchers say that the Earth might soon get Saturn-like rings made entirely out of space junk, but they could be cleaned up using magnets.What’s the issue?With more countries venturing into space with every passing decade, the problem is simply ballooning out of

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Nov 2021

Polar-Areas Stellar-Imaging in Polarisation High-Accuracy Experiment (PASIPHAE) is an international collaborative sky surveying project.Scientists aim to study the polarisation in the light coming from millions of stars.Background:Polarization is a propert

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Nov 2021

What is the issue?Several countries, including India, have so far stayed out of the JI negotiations that these initiatives lack a multilateral negotiating mandate and are an attack on the fabric of multilateralism underlying WTO.What is WTO?The World Trade Organization (W

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 29, Nov 2021

The Global Nutrition Report was conceived following the first Nutrition for Growth Initiative Summit (N4G) in 2013.The annual GNR –Evaluates the impact of poor diets on human health and the planet,Provides a concise data-focused updates on th

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 29, Nov 2021

Why in News?Seijosa circle in Arunachal Pradesh’s Pakke-Kessang district has been witnessing  climate change for the past decade-and-a-half.Seijosa, one of the five administrative divisions of the district, has a population of around 4,000 across 19 villages.It lies

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 29, Nov 2021

Why in News?With a view to creating awareness among consumers of fossil fuels, the Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas launched a month-long campaign outlining the adverse health and environmental impacts of rising carb

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 27, Nov 2021

Reference News:The Finance Ministry has allocated additional funds of ₹10,000 crore as an interim measure for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) after it ran out of funds allocated in the budget.Need for:According to its own financial