Current Affairs Capsule
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested from the Islamabad High Court and bundled into a prison van by paramilitary Rangers on Tuesday, sparking massive protests across Pakistan by his supporters who stormed the Army headquarters in Rawalpindi and the Corps Commander’s residence in Lahore. In a move that seeks to establish a common […]
Sudan’s warring military factions agreed to a new and longer seven-day ceasefire from Thursday, neighbour and mediator South Sudan said, even as more air strikes and shooting in the Khartoum capital region undercut their latest supposed truce. As Ukrainian forces step up their assaults behind enemy lines ahead of an expected counter-offensive, Russia is imposing […]
HOD Ten jawans of the District Reserve Guard (DRG), returning in a van from a security operation, and their driver was killed when Maoists set off an IED in south Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, over 350 km from state capital Raipur, on Wednesday afternoon. Sudan’s Army and a paramilitary force battled on the outskirts of […]
HOD The Fact Check Unit as proposed in the Information Technology Rules, 2021, is likely to have four members; a representative from the IT Ministry and one from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, a “media expert” and a “legal expert”. Keshub Mahindra, a doyen of Indian industry and Chairman Emeritus of Mahindra & […]
HOD In a boost for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year, the Election Commission of India (ECI) recognised it as a national party on Monday. Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova on Monday met Ministry of External Affairs Secretary (West) Sanjay Verma – the first senior […]
News Headlines-10th April Two Indian-origin candidates are lined up to go head-to-head for the post of Leicester Mayor in the local elections coming up in the UK early next month. Israeli Jets hit Syrian military targets on Sunday in response to rockets launched towards Israeli-controlled territory overnight, Israel’s military said, as violence flared again following […]
Headlines of the Day After raising the repo rate in six consecutive policies, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a surprise move, decided to pause its rate hike cycle on Thursday amid rising concerns over global financial stability. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has recommended a CBI probe into Oxfam India for […]
Headlines of the Day Cutting across party lines, Opposition leaders and education ministers in non-BJP states, criticised key deletions in NCERT textbooks including passages on Mahatma Gandhi and his assassin Nathuram Godse. Israeli Police entered Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque in force before dawn on Wednesday and clashed with worshippers, drawing condemnation from Arab countries and a […]
Headlines of the Day Former US President Donald Trump was on Tuesday arrested as he arrived to surrender at the Manhattan criminal court for his arraignment on history-making criminal charges related to paying hush money to a pornstar before the 2016 presidential election in exchange for her silence. Slower consumption growth and challenging external conditions […]
Headlines of the Day Contrary to widespread claims of a large rise in poverty in both rural and urban India post the Covid-19 pandemic, a new paper authored by former Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya and Vishal More, Founder of New Delhi-based research and consulting organisation Intelink Advisors, has said that rural poverty declined […]