Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 19th August 2021 | Legacy IAS Academy
Contents UNITE Aware Platform to help protect U.N. peacekeepers NHRC on slow criminal justice reform process India to host second UNWGIC in 2022 UNITE Aware Platform to help protect U.N. peacekeepers Context: Presiding over a United Nations Security Council open debate on technology and peacekeeping, his first as External Affairs Minister announced the rollout of […]
Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 18th August 2021 | Legacy IAS Academy
Contents RoDTEP scheme: Duty relief for Exporters RBI unveils financial inclusion index Forming security force to protect judiciary TAPAS (Training for Augmenting Productivity and Services) RoDTEP scheme: Duty relief for Exporters Context: The government on notified the rates and norms for the Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) scheme. Relevance: GS-III: Indian […]
Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 17th August 2021 | Legacy IAS Academy
Contents Finance Minister and TN on fuel taxes and GST for fuel Parliamentary Standing Committee on Decentralized Procurement Scheme (DCP) Impact of delay in Census 2021 Minorities must be treated as ‘weaker sections’: NCM Finance Minister and TN on fuel taxes and GST for fuel Context: Indian Finance Minister took on the Tamil Nadu government […]
Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 16 August 2021 | Legacy IAS Academy
Contents Courts differ in views on marital rape, J.S. Verma Committee Taliban has won: Ex-President of Afghanistan Ghani Hydro-meteorological calamities in India India organizes the IBSA Tourism minister’s meet Courts continue to differ in views on marital rape Context: Four years after the Supreme Court referred to Justice J.S. Verma committee’s recommendation to make marital […]
Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 14 August 2021 | Legacy IAS Academy
Contents All about ISRO’s GSLV-F10 failure: EOS-03 Mission Vehicle-scrappage policy and circular economy FEMBoSA – 2021 Annual Meeting Open Acreage Licensing Programme Britain imposes sanctions on Belarus All about ISRO’s GSLV-F10 failure: EOS-03 Mission Context: The launch of earth observation satellite EOS-03, aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation ’s (Isro) heavy launch vehicle GSLV-F10 was […]
Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 13 August 2021 | Legacy IAS Academy
Contents New emails for IT Faceless assessment process grievances National Mission on Edible Oil-Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) EAC-PM releases Quality of Life for Elderly Index New emails for IT Faceless assessment process grievances Context: The Income Tax department has notified three official email IDs for taxpayers to register their grievances over different aspects of faceless assessment […]
Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 12 August 2021 | Legacy IAS Academy
Contents NCPCR survey on minority schools under RTE Supreme Court on vacancies in consumer dispute bodies Govt. to completely exit erstwhile PSUs Centre to soon free up untapped space in SEZs NCPCR survey on minority schools under RTE Context: After conducting a nationwide assessment of minority schools, the National Commission of Protection of Child Rights […]
Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 10 August 2021 | Legacy IAS Academy
Contents IPCC 2021 report on Climate Change India Plastics Pact initiative NCLT vacancies pointed out by panel SC: Govt. delaying Collegium recommendations IPCC 2021 report on Climate Change Context: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently published its sixth assessment report (AR6) titled “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”. Relevance: GS-III: Environment and Ecology […]
Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 9 August 2021 | Legacy IAS Academy
Contents Pensilungpa Glacier retreat due to warming Sunderbans is now drowning in plastic Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) weakens ITBP inducts its first women officers Made-in-India carrier – INS Vikrant Dravidian languages spoken in IVC Pensilungpa Glacier retreat due to warming Context: A recent study has found that the Pensilungpa Glacier located in Ladakh’s Zanskar […]
Current Affairs for UPSC IAS Exam – 7 August 2021 | Legacy IAS Academy
Contents RBI holds rates, MPC splits on stance India, China pull back troops from Gogra Equitable food system and Zero Hunger goal Abanindranath Tagore’s 150th Birth anniversary RBI holds rates, MPC splits on stance Context: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept interest rates on hold for the seventh […]