CURRENT AFFAIRS

Recently, the 48th GST Council meeting was held which chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recommended decriminalization of certain offenses under Section 132 of the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Act, 2017.

The 2022 Nobel Prize for physics was awarded  “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science” which shows the importance of quantum computing.

Recently, the Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud stated that increasing the number of judges will not demolish the perennial problem of pendency, and that it is difficult enough now to find good High Court judge material.

Recently, the Group of Seven (G7) countries, the European Union and Australia have imposed a price cap on Russian sea-borne oil to make it harder for Russia to fund its war against Ukraine.

Recently, the President of India, Draupadi Murmu, and the Vice-President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar, have weighed in on the surpassing significance of the separation of powers in the Indian Constitution.

The Right to Information (RTI) Act was passed by Parliament in 2005, aiming to give people access to the records of the Central and State governments. 

Scientists in the United Kingdom testing a new form of cancer therapy, reported success in a teenage girl, Alyssia, with a form of cancer called T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

India’s long-term strategy must accommodate the most vulnerable of its people in its low-emissions pathways to achieve sustainable economic growth and poverty eradication.

The global slowdown has begun to hit home, denting India’s goods exports by 16.65% in October compared to a year ago as the first contraction since February 2021 that dragged outbound shipments below $30 billion for the first time in 20 months.

There is a strong tendency in public health to prioritize individual-oriented interventions over societal oriented population-based approaches.