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Why in News?      In February, a government-appointed committee had submitted its recommendations for implementation of Clause 6 of the Assam Accord, a key provision that has been contentious for decades.The government  has  recent

Why in News?Key Pointers by the PMThe Prime Minister of India said that the friendship between India and Russia has stood the test of time and it was seen during the Covid pandemic.COVID:Covid had highlighted the importance of health and pharma sectors in both the countri

Why in News:Sri Lanka and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are working together to promote the island’s agriculture-based economy.They are now partnering to create the Smallholder Agribusiness and Resilience Project (SARP) to c

Why in News:The experts have recently said that DNA vaccine technique can be applied in making of cancer related vaccine.What is DNA vaccine?A type of vaccine that transfects a specific antigen DNA-coding sequence onto the cells of an immunized species is known as DNA Va

Why in News?The five insurgent groups of Assam, the Centre and the State government have  recently signed to end years of violence in the Karbi Anglong region. Key points of the Agreement:Under the peace accord, more than 1,000 armed cad

Why in news?The Delhi High Court on Thursday extended the deadline given to the Centre to nominate persons to all the vacant positions in the National Commission for Minorities by two months.The High Court had earlier directed that the nomination of all the vacant posi

Why in  News?Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), the premier research organization of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), has evolved a design for the first PPP Research Reactor for production of Nuclear MedicinesWhat  is Nuclear Medicines?Nuclear medi

Why in news?Context:Lithuania has justified it’s decision to pull out of the China and Central & Eastern European (CEE) 17+1 mechanism, which is seen as a pro-China grouping of countries within the EU. It has also denied that the decision came because of U

Why in news?Early-stage findings of Chang’e-5 probe, which use geological mapping to link ‘exotic’ fragments in the collected samples to features near the landing site, were recently presented by China.Background:Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil

Why in news?The 1995 Basel Ban Amendment, a global waste dumping prohibition, has become an international law after Croatia ratified it on September 6, 2019.Basel Convention:The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes&