Sri Lanka’s Crisis: Sri Lanka, a country of 22 million people, is under the grip of an unprecedented economic turmoil, the worst in seven decades, leaving millions struggling to buy food, medicine, fuel and other essentials. Following the political and economic instability, hundreds of anti-government protesters stormed into the Sri Lankan President’s residence demanding his […]
Child Labour
Child Labour: The Centre does not have any data on child labour in the country and a reason for this is the drying up of budgetary provisions meant for the National Child Labour Project (NCLP), which had been monitoring the issue for about three decades. Since the NCLP was merged with the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan […]
Daily Current Affairs for UPSC IAS: 13th July 2022
Today Current Affairs: 13th July 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Azores High
Azores High: A study revealed that an extremely large ‘Azores High’ (a subtropical weather phenomenon) has resulted in abnormally dry conditions across the western Mediterranean, including the Iberian Peninsula, primarily occupied by Spain and Portugal. Azores High is a subtropical high pressure system that extends over the eastern subtropical North Atlantic and western Europe during […]
Statue Of Peace Of Swami Ramanujacharya
Statue Of Peace Of Swami Ramanujacharya: In Srinagar, Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah unveiled Swami Ramanujacharya’s Statue of Peace. Ramanujacharya was Born in 1017 in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu. Ramanujacharya is revered as a Vedic philosopher and social reformer. He travelled across India, advocating equality and social justice. He Brought the treasure of Vedic […]
World Population Prospects 2022
World Population Prospects 2022: According to the 2022 edition of the United Nations’ World Population Prospects (WPP), India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023. The Population Division of the UN has been publishing the WPP in a biennial cycle since 1951. Each revision of the WPP provides a […]
G-20 Foreign Ministers Meeting
G-20 Foreign Ministers Meeting: The External Affairs Minister of India met with the US Secretary of State and Russian Foreign Minister and other counter parts in Bali (Indonesia) on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting. The meeting was held under the theme of “Building a more peaceful, stable, and prosperous world together.” G20 […]
ISRO Launches The World’s First Facility To Track Space Debris, And Safeguard Assets
ISRO Launches The World’s First Facility To Track Space Debris, And Safeguard Assets: ISRO launches the world’s first facility to track space debris, and safeguard assets. IS4OM is ISRO’s holistic approach to ensure the safety of space assets and sustaining the utilization of outer space for national development. In response to the ever-growing space object […]
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray: Ministry of Culture along with the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, and Vijnana Bharti (VIBHA) organized a curtain-raiser for two days International Conference on the “Contributions of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray as a Chemist and Freedom Fighter”. PC Ray’s contribution to the field of Science was a step toward nation-building. […]
Dark Matter
Dark Matter: One of the most sensitive dark matter detector experiments named LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) in the U.S.A, has been used for finding evidence of dark matter in the universe. All interactions in the universe are a result of four fundamental forces acting on particles — strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force and gravitation. […]
