Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Transitioning from LIBOR Context: RBI stated that some banks and financial institutions were yet to facilitate an absolute transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) benchmark. They had not inserted fallback clauses into all their financial contracts that reference U.S.$ LIBOR or the … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Transformer in Chat GPT Context: Machine learning (ML), a subfield of artificial intelligence, teaches computers to solve tasks based on structured data, language, audio, or images, by providing examples of inputs and the desired outputs. This is different from traditional computer programming, where programmers write … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Excessive Ground Water Extraction and land Subsidence Context: Cracks in buildings and ‘sinking’ land in Joshimath, a hill town in Uttarakhand, made the headlines earlier this year. A similar phenomenon has been playing out for years in the plains of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Faridabad. … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Cape Town Convention and its Aircraft Protocol Context: India has been placed on global aviation leasing watchdog’s watchlist, assigning it “negative” outlook following the National Company Law Tribunal’s (NCLT) order restricting bankrupt airline Go First’s lessors from repossessing planes while it is undergoing insolvency … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . World Heritage List Context: Santiniketan the home of Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore has been recommended for inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List. What is World Heritage Sites? UNESCO What are the criteria for selection? Cultural About Santiniketan 2 . Arth Ganga Context: A first … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Rabindranath Tagore and His Contributions Context: In the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Visva-Bharati, protests overshadowed celebrations on the poet’s birth anniversary as a large group of people continued their sit-in against the university’s move to take away a piece of land from the Santiniketan house of Nobel … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) Context: The food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first vaccine — Arexvy — for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to lower respiratory tract disease in people older than 60 years. This is the first RSV vaccine to be approved anywhere in … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC Prelims Topics Covered 1 . National Programme for Prevention & Control of Non-Communicable Diseases Context: The addition of many new diseases or disease-groups and new health initiatives have prompted the Central government to widen and rename its programme for control and prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) About the News National … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . Report on Currency & Finance 2022-23 Context: The cumulative total expenditure for adapting to climate change in India is estimated to reach ₹85.6 lakh crore (at 2011-12 prices) by 2030, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Department of Economic and Policy Research (DEPR) estimated in … Read more
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC CSE Topics Covered 1 . De-dollarization Context: The de-dollarization movement is gathering global momentum, with an increasing number of nations from Asia to Europe and Latin America lining up plans to end the greenback’s dominance of global trade and investment flows. What is de- dollarization? What is reserve currency? The … Read more