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• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 25, Nov 2021

Reference News:The Philippines will resume a military resupply mission for the country’s troops stationed on an atoll (Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin Shoal) in the South China Sea will resume this week, after it was aborted last week when it was b

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 25, Nov 2021

Reference News:India will release 5 million barrels of crude oil from its emergency stockpile in tandem with the U.S., China, Japan, and other major economies to cool oil prices.This is the first time ever that India, which stores 5.33 million tonne or about 38 million barrels o

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 25, Nov 2021

Reference News:The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021 will introduce in the winter session of Parliament.Key Provisions:It seeks to regulate cryptocurrency and ostensibly ban all private cryptocurrencies.It seeks to create a facil

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 25, Nov 2021

Reference News:India – USA have reaffirmed their commitment to take economic relationship between the two countries to the next high level – to integrate the economies across sectors and re-launched the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum (TPF) that was convened four

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 25, Nov 2021

Reference News:On Monday, the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPP) on the Personal Data Protection Bill of 2019 is said to have adopted the final draft. The Bill is slated to be tabled in the Winter Session.Why does India need a data protection law?Amid the proliferat

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 25, Nov 2021

GS Paper IIIWhy in News?On November 24, at around 11.50 am (IST), NASA will launch the agency’s first planetary defense test mission named the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).The spacecraft will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenbe

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 25, Nov 2021

GS Paper IIWhy in News?A Special Bench of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, recently protected two lawyers and a journalist booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) from any “coercive action” by the Tripura poli

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 24, Nov 2021

On the final day of the UN Climate Change Conference held in Glasgow, India’s Minister for Environment read out a statement promising to “phase down” rather than “phase out” the use of coal. This caused many to raise questions about India’s

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 24, Nov 2021

Since 1991, when economic reforms began in India, several attempts have been made to reform the fertilizer sector to Keep a check on the rising fertilizer subsidy billPromote the efficient use of fertilizersAchieve balanced use of N, P and K (nitrogen, phosphorus and pota

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 24, Nov 2021

Farmers are demanding a law for guaranteed minimum support price (MSP).What is MSP?MSP is the rate at which the government buys grains from farmers. Currently, it fixes MSPs for 23 crops grown in both Kharif and Rabi seasons.How is it calculated?The MSP is the rate at whi