# Economic survey India’s GDP is expected to grow by 9.2℅ this year and 8-8.5% in 2022-23. According to economic survey, hardening inflation and energy prices along with tightening of global liquidity poses challenges to the economic growth. Newly appointed chief economic advisor, V. Anantha Nageswaran termed the 8-8.5℅ growth projection for the coming year […]

# Kashmir Five terrorists were killed in two separate operations by the police and the army in Kashmir on Sunday. Zahid Ahmad wani was a top commander of Jaish e Mohammed who was among five killed. Four terrorists were killed in Pulwama’s Naira area. Wani was a categorised terrorist active since may 2017. # Department […]

# Pegasus A fresh political storm has erupted over a report in the New York Times on Pegasus. The report said that the Indian government had purchased the Pegasus spyware from the NSO group of Israel in July 2017 to carry out targeted surveillance on Citizens. However, the New York Times did not provide any […]

# Maharashtra The supreme Court on Friday revoked the one year suspension of 12 MLAs from the Maharashtra assembly. Supreme Court called it an Irrational act that would impact the Democratic set up, leave constituencies unrepresented and help governments thin majority manipulate number. The BJP legislators were suspended for a year for “disorderly conduct” in […]

# Third wave of Covid Hospitalisation trends from major states suggest it is so far less pernicious than the previous wave. States that account for the major chunks of active cases have still 95℅ of their covid bed vacant. According to data from states, the hospitalisation is only 3.5% against 8% in the second wave. […]

# Padma awards General Bipin Rawat, India’s first chief of defense staff, who died recently in a helicopter crash has been selected for Padma vibhushan posthumously. Former chief minister of Uttar pradesh Kalyaan singh who was the chief minister when Babri masjid was demolished has also been selected for Padma vibhushan posthumously. Padma vibhushan is […]

# Omicron Omicron is now in community transmission in India. Omicron has become dominant in many metros, where case are rising exponentially. This has been said by Indian SARS-COV-2 Genomics consortium (INSACOG). INSACOG, Jointly initiated by the Union health and family welfare ministry, the department of biotechnology and others is a consortium of 38 laboratories […]

# Election Commission The election Commission of India on Saturday decided to continue the ban on large rallies and roadshows till January 31 for the assembly elections in February. Election commission has allowed outdoor meetings of upto 500 persons for candidates of the first two phases of polling. The election commission had placed a ban […]

# NEET The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Constitutional validity of reservation for other backward classes (OBC) candidates in the all India quota seats for the National eligibility Cum entrance test (NEET) for under graduate and post graduate medical and dental courses. Supreme Court said that reservation is not at odds with merit in […]

# IAS cadre Central government is planning to acquire for itself the powers to transfer IAS and IPS officers through central deputation. This power will do away with the requirement of taking the approval of state governments to transfer IAS and IPS. The department of personnel and training wrote to the states on January 12 […]