Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Israel – Palestine issue Context: Israel declares war and approves ‘significant’ steps to retaliate for surprise attack by Hamas. Creation of Israel and Palestine First Arab Israeli War: Six Days War What was the Yom Kippur War? Camp David Accords and first Intifada: … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Context: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) after a detailed assessment of the evolving macroeconomic and financial developments and the outlook, decided unanimously to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.50%. Key Highlights of … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1) India -Maldives relationship : Context: India looks forward to engaging the new Maldives government on “all issues”, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday, responding to the Maldivian President-elect Mohamed Muizzu’s statement that Indian military personnel would be asked to leave the islands. Background … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Nobel Prize What is the Nobel Prize Prize money How candidates are nominated The institutions that choose winners The Nobel Prize and India 2 . Nobel Prize – Medicine Context: The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Osiris – Rex mission Context: On September 24, NASA’s asteroid-hunting spacecraft OSIRIS-REx — short for Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer — dropped a capsule containing a sample of rocks and dust that it had collected from the asteroid 101955 Bennu over the earth, which landed in … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . POCSO Context: The government should not tinker with the age of consent — currently 18 years — under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Law Commission said in a report made public on Friday. Instead, it advised the introduction of “guided … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Global Security Initiative (GSI) Context: Nepal on Tuesday appeared to reject calls from China to join President Xi Jinping’s Global Security Initiative (GSI), but agreed to take forward ambitious cross-border connectivity projects during the visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ to Beijing. What … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Draft Patent Amendment Rule Context: The Patents Act explicitly permits anyone to file a pre-grant opposition; but as per the draft patent amendment rules, the maintainability of persons or civil society organisations filing pre-grant oppositions will be decided by the controller. What is a Patent? … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Electronic Voting Machine Context: The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a writ petition seeking an independent audit of the source code governing the entire Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) system. About the news What is IEEE 1028 standard What is EVM? How do existing … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE 1 . Article 334 Context: A Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on Wednesday decided to examine if clockwork extensions granted to reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the Lok Sabha and the Assemblies were constitutionally valid. About the … Read more