Current Affairs

Although there has barely been any shred of evidence to show that any election held recently was subject to electoral fraud through a manipulation of EVMs, Election Commission of India(ECI) has to give repeated assurances by of the…
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World Malaria Report 2018 has shown that progress against the disease has stalled amid a scaling-down of significant investments. The data reveals worrying trends in the fight against malaria as the cases of malaria in 2017 increased…
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Sahitya Akademi Awards 2018, the most prestigious literary honours bestowed on writers for their works across genres and languages, were announced by Sahitya Akademi in 24 languages on 6 December 2018, to be presented to the authors at a…
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Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, gravitationally-challenged landmark, has slowly started defying its name, losing 4 centimetres of its tilt over the past 17 years and is leaning less after years of ambitious engineering work. Leaning Tower…
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No-detention policy that prohibits schools from detaining students till they complete elementary education will be scrapped as Lok Sabha has passed on Wednesday July 18, 2018 an amendment to the Right to Education Act; the states can now…
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Bharat Vatwani, a psychiatrist who works for mentally ill street people in Mumbai - India, recognized for “his tremendous courage and healing compassion in embracing India’s mentally-afflicted destitute, and his steadfast and magnanimous…
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Interim Budget 2019-20, viewed as a medium for a progressive path for the country, with major schemes for farmers and informal sector workers, and income tax sops, was presented by Piyush Goyal Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs,…
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ILO Global Wage Report 2018/19, based on data from 136 countries, finds that Global Wage Growth in 2017 has been lowest since 2008 and is far below the level of Global Financial Crisis. Global Wage Growth in real terms (adjusted for…
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Chevalier Award, Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters), has been conferred on International filmmaker Ashok Amritraj - the most famous Indian producer in Hollywood - Hyde Park Entertainment…
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Flying Drones is legal in India now as the Civil Aviation Regulations (CAR), to enable safe flying of Remotely Piloted Aerial Systems (RPAS) - popularly referred to as drones, released in August 2018, have come in effect from 01 December…
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