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Reference News:At the recently held 20th meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of Government, India observed that raising bilateral issues is counterproductive to the spirit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).What’s the issue?China and Pakistan have del

Reference News:China, the world’s largest crude importer, is non-committal about its intentions to release oil from its reserves on a request from the United States, while OPEC producers were not mulling changing tactics in light of the U.S. action.What’s the issu

Reference News:Summary findings from the fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey, released recently showed a 12.3 percentage point increase over the previous edition of the survey in the coverage of health insurance to 41% of households surveyed, an in

Reference News:-To promote and attract tourism business, the Indian Railways recently launched Bharat Gaurav trains that will be operated by private players and run on theme-based circuits.Through this policy, which offers operators the “Right of Use”

Reference News:The Supreme Court has asked the Centre whether it was “willing” to favour a lifetime ban on contesting elections for people convicted of offences.What’s the issue?A petition has been filed in the court urging the need for a level playing fie

Reference News:Over a year since Parliament passed four labour codes (on wages, social security, occupational safety and industrial relations), the Centre is still in the process of notifying the rules to implement the laws and has not set a date for the roll-out.

Reference News:The National Family and Health Survey (NFHS)-5, the most comprehensive survey on socio-economic and health indicators in the country, has been released.The previous four rounds of the NFHS were conducted in 1992-93, 1998-99, 2005-06 and 2015-16.Highli

Reference News:India and the US have decided on a “transitional approach” to digital service tax imposed by the government.The terms of the deal will be the same that were thrashed out between the US and Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and the UK last week.The pact

Reference News:A number of Chinese companies have already begun “on-site inspections” of possible projects to tap lithium deposits in Afghanistan, having received the green light to do so from the Taliban regime.Background:Lithium is one of many resources in Afghanis

African Swine Fever (ASF) is spreading widely in Vietnam and is hurting the local farming industry, forcing the culling of three times the number of hogs culled last year.The outbreak has this year spread to 2,275 areas, in 57 out of the country’s 63 cities and province