2022: Point-Wise Current-Affairs/GS Articles
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🌟 RBI to Launch Digital Rupee on Pilot Basis (Economy, the Indian Express), UGC Issues Guidelines for Professor of Practice (Education, the Hindu) (October 2022)
The Reserve Bank of India has decided to soon launch Digital Rupee on pilot basis for limited use. Creating awareness about CBDCs in general and the planned features of the Digital Rupee is the purpose behind issuing the concept note. A concept note was released on the Central Ba…
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🌟 RBIs Card Tokenization, Indias First 24 X 7 Solar-Powered Village (October, 2022)
With the increase of digital payments, the RBI in 2019 allowed card networks to tokenize card transactions to continue improving the security and safety of card transactions. In tokenization process, original card details are replaced with an alternative code called a “token” whi…
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🌟 Launch of herSTART Platform for Women Entrepreneurs (Govt. Schemes) (October 2022)
The President of India recently launched ‘herSTART’ which is an initiative of the Gujarat University Start-up and Entrepreneurship Council (GUSEC) aimed at supporting women-led start-ups. The President also inaugurated/laid the foundation stones for various projects that are rela…
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🌟 Bilateral Air Agreement Service (August 2022)
Context: India has signed a bilateral air service agreement with 116 countries including neighboring countries- Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Pakistan along with the U. S. , UK, UAE etc.
Airline will operate to/from a point in India: Any designated foreign airline can operate to/fr…
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🌟 Weather Shocks Do not Lead to Policy Reforms, Ukraines Needs Stretch EU Resources (16- 30 November 2022)
Climate adaptation and mitigation are in focus in a year where every continent has seen an extreme weather event. New analysis from Concordia University, Canada states that weather shocks don՚t lead to desired changes in climate policy.
Weather Shocks Donot Lead to Policy Reforms
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🌟 Neuro Risks of COVID-19, Valley Without Flowers (16-30 November )
Researchers led by the University of Queensland, Australia have found that the SARS-COV-2 virus, that causes COVID-19, can lead to neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson՚s and Alzheimer՚s diseases.
Neuro Risks of COVID-19
- The researchers say that COVID-19 triggers the same i…
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