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How to Prepare Current Affairs for UPSC?

There is a trend of asking questions in the UPSC Civil Services Exam from the events that are in news related to the subject. A large number of questions in the exam are directly asked from websites; like PIB, Down to Earth or Newspaper; like The Hindu, Indian Express, Times of India, Business Standard etc. It is very challenging to study from all these sources in a limited time during preparation. Keeping all these things in mind, all the important news is compiled in this section on a daily basis; so that you do not miss any important event from the exam point of view.

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Going through the disinvestment targets

11-Feb-2023

In the Union Budget for 2023-24, the government has set a disinvestment target of ₹51,000 crore, down nearly 21% from the budget estimate for the current year and just ₹1,000 crore more than the revised estimate which is the lowest target in seven years.

Vision for a technology-driven and knowledge-based economy

11-Feb-2023

The 2023-2024 Union Budget depicts the Union government’s long-term vision of a technology-driven, knowledge-based economy that banks on citizen engagement, youth empowerment, employment generation, and creating a robust macroeconomic environment.

Labour unions in emerging sectors

09-Feb-2023

In 2022, Indian start-ups including Byju’s, Ola, Unacademy, Vedantu, Chargebee, WhiteHat Jr, Udaan and CityMall and at the global level, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Twitter and Apple, among others, announced lay-offs.

CAR T-cell therapy

09-Feb-2023

CAR T-cell therapy for treatment of any cancer currently holds the attention of many researchers worldwide.

Nordics and India can power the green transition the world needs

08-Feb-2023

Over the last decades, Nordic countries have been at the forefront of developing new green technologies and solutions such as hydrogen, offshore wind, batteries and carbon capture and storage.

Neglecting the social sector has consequences

08-Feb-2023

The stagnant allocations in the Budget for health, education and nutrition reflects the failure of our political leadership, since Independence, in understanding the centrality of universal education and health to growth.

Understanding local dynamics in a conflict zone

07-Feb-2023

The rise in terror-related strikes in the relatively peaceful Jammu division, especially in the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch, become a cause of concern.

South Asia needs to have a re-look at regional trade across Asia

07-Feb-2023

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently forecast that global trade would slow down from 5.4% in 2022 to 2.4% in 2023.

Towards fiscal consolidation

06-Feb-2023

In the Union Budget for 2023-24, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chose the path of relative fiscal prudence and projected a decline in fiscal deficit to 5.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) in FY24, compared with 6.4% in FY23.

Shaping international cooperation on just energy transitions

06-Feb-2023

Just Energy Transition Partnership (JET-P) is emerging as the key mechanism for multilateral financing by developed countries to support an energy transition in developing countries.

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