Current Affairs 07 July 2022
CONTENTS Minimum Support Price EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy Nominated Members in Rajya Sabha Critical Minerals Environment Protection Act 1986 Nairobi flies Minimum Support Price Context: Ahead of the nationwide protests demanding a law to ensure MSP, NITI Aayog has asserted that the MSP should continue till markets become competitive and efficient. Relevance: GS-III: Agriculture (Agriculture […]
Editorials/Opinions Analysis For UPSC 07 July 2022
Editorials/Opinions Analysis For UPSC 07 July 2022 Contents Hurt sentiments, Hate crimes and punishment The Global Carbon Management: India’s steps with EU Hurt sentiments, Hate Crimes and Punishment Context: There should be no tolerance for violence motivated by “hurt feelings” caused by hate speech. Recent incidences of persons being killed for offending sentiments in Udaipur […]
Hurt Sentiments, Hate Crimes and Punishment
Context There should be no tolerance for violence motivated by “hurt feelings” caused by hate speech. Recent incidences of persons being killed for offending sentiments in Udaipur (Rajasthan) and Amravati (Maharashtra) cast doubt on India’s secular foundation. Relevance GS Paper 2: Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States pressure groups and formal/informal associations […]
The Global Carbon Management: India’s Steps With EU
Context Recent progress in the India-EU alliance opens up prospects of a customized partnership and mutual growth between the two as the EU is progressing fairly in Carbon management. Relevance: GS Paper 2: International Relations India and its neighborhood – International relations Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting the […]
Static Quiz 07 July 2022 (Geography)
What is Fields Medal?
Context: Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska was named as one of four recipients of the prestigious Fields Medal, which is often described as the Nobel Prize in mathematics. Relevance: GS III- Science and Technology Dimensions of the Article: What is Fields Medal? History of the Medal Indian-origin winners What is Fields Medal? The Fields Medal is awarded […]
Three new ‘Exotic’ Sub-Atomic Particles Discovered
Context: The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment has observed three never-before-seen particles. Relevance: GS III- Science and Technology Dimensions of the Article: Details What are quarks? What about tetraquarks and pentaquarks? Details: The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment — which is investigating the slight differences between matter and antimatter by studying a type […]
Purchasing Managers Index
Context: India’s services firms saw growth in new business and output accelerate to a 11-year high in June, as per the survey-based S&P Global India Services Purchasing Managers Index (PMI). The index rose to 59.2 last month, from 58.9 in May, signalling a strengthening in demand across the services sector, which had borne the brunt […]
Current Affairs Quiz 06 July 2022
Single Use Plastic
Context: A ban on the use of single-use plastics that was notified by the Union Environment Ministry on August 2021 came into effect on July 1 this year. Relevance: GS III- Environment and Ecology Dimensions of the Article About Single use plastic What are the items being banned? How will the ban be enforced? Impacts […]