# Disengagement in ladakh     China’s military announced on wednesday that frontline troops of India and China had begun disengaging in a “synchronised and organised ” manner. The disengagement is mainly focused on the north and south banks of pangong lake. However, the Indian source has said unofficially that this is a partial […]

  # Unauthorised colonies     The Rajya sabha on tuesday passed the national capital territory of Delhi laws (special provisions) second amendment bill, 2021. This bill extends protection from punitive action to certain kinds of unauthorised construction by three years in national capital region. The bill replaced an ordinance brought by the government in […]

  # New labour codes     The new labour codes is set to be implemented soon. The new labour codes will provide companies the flexibility of reducing the number of working days to four days a week. There is a provision of free medical check-ups to workers through the employees state insurance corporation . […]

  # Glacial burst in uttarakhand     A glacial burst on “Nanda Devi” triggered an avalanche and caused flash floods in Rishiganga and Dhauliganga rivers in chamoli districts of uttarakhand on sunday. Seven persons were killed and over 125 are reported missing. Dhauliganga river at Joshimath flowed at a very high level, breaching all […]

  # NITI Aayog     NITI aayog is the government’s apex think tank body. NITI aayog has commissioned a study that seeks to examine the unintended economic consequences of judicial decisions that have hindered and stalled big ticket projects on environmental grounds. A perusal of the document appears to suggest that judgements that negatively […]

  # 4G in J&K     Jammu & Kashmir administration on friday restored high speed 4G mobile internet. It was cut since August 5, 2019, when the article 370 was abrogated from J&K. The MHA has took this decision after after reviewing the security situation in J&K.       # UPSC aspirants   […]

  # Sero survey       Nearly one in five (21%) Indians had been infected by the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus until December 2020. This data is revealed in the third round of the serological survey by the ICMR. This is roughly a three fold increase since August and a twenty fold increase may, when previous […]

  # Twitter       The union government has issued a notice to twitter to comply with its order of removal of content related to “farmer genocide”. On tuesday evening, twitter restored over 250 accounts, after blocking them due to “legal demand”. Twitter unilaterally unblocked accounts/tweets despite government order of blocking them. Ministry of […]

  # Future-reliance deal       The Delhi high court on Tuesday provided interim relief to e-commerce major amazon by directing future retail limited (FRL) to maintain status quo with regard to transfer of its retail assets to reliance retail. The Delhi high court also said that an order of the emergency arbitrator (EA) […]

  # Disinvestments       The government on monday budgeted 1.75 lakh crore rupees from stake sale in public sector companies and financial institutions. This disinvestment plan also includes two PSU banks and one general insurance company in the next fiscal year beginning april. This amount of 1.75 lakh crore is lower than the […]