# Quad meeting The foreign ministers of Australia, India, Japan and US said the Quad was already cooperating on sharing intelligence on threats in the Indo-pacific region. The foreign ministers of four countries hold their fourth quadrilateral committee meeting in Melbourne. The Quad countries committed to stronger cooperation in Indo-pacific but remain divided on Russia […]

# International travel Fully vaccinated international passengers from 82 countries will be permitted quarantine free entry from February 14, ministry of health and family welfare said on Thursday. The requirement of compulsory on arrival testing for passengers from certain countries identified as ‘at risk’ will also be removed. According to the latest guidelines of the […]

# UP elections The high stakes electoral battle in Uttar Pradesh will commence on Thursday with voting for 58 seats in the Western belt. More than 2.28 crore voters will decide the fate of 623 candidates, including 73 women. Of the 58 seats going to the polls on Thursday, the BJP won 53 in 2017 […]

# Anti-conversion bill The Haryana cabinet on Tuesday approved the draft of the Haryana prevention of unlawful conversion of Religion bill, 2022. This bill seeks to prohibit religious conversion effected through misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement, or by any fraudulent means. According to the draft bill, the burden of proof ‘lies on the accused’. […]

# Jammu and Kashmir The Jammu and Kashmir delimitation commission has come out with a fresh interim report proposing the redrawing of many assembly and the lone lok sabha constituencies in Kashmir. The proposal includes allocating one more assembly seat to Kashmir division and six more seats to Jammu division. The panel has shared the […]

# Punjab Enforcement directorate on Friday arrested Bhupinder singh honey, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit singh channi’s nephew, in connection with an illegal sand mining case. He was later produced before a special court and sent to ED custody till February 8. Congress leader Rahul gandhi is scheduled to announce the party’s chief ministerial candidates on […]

# Beijing olympics India announced the diplomatic boycott of the opening ceremony of winter Olympics. The decision of boycott was taken after China chose a PLA soldier who fought in Galwan as one of the torch bearer’s of Winter Olympics. State broadcaster Doordarshan also announced that it will not telecast the opening and closing ceremony […]

# Marital rape Minister of women and child development Smriti Irani said that government has started the process of comprehensive amendments to criminal laws related to marital rape. Smriti Irani also warned against condemning every man as a rapist and every marriage as a violent one. The national family health survey-4 (2015-16) shows that 7℅ […]

# Budget 2022-23 This year’s budget focused on scaling up the wager on public capital spending to revive private investments and job creation through a virtuous growth cycle. The budget was also focused on keeping the fiscal deficit in control. The salaried and middle class, did not get any relief in the form of upward […]

# 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 […]