CURRENT AFFAIRS

The CBI is probing cross-border cow smuggling in West Bengal. The CBI is conducting searches at two premises of many areas in Kolkata among other locations.

The Assembly polls round the corner in Tamil Nadu, the Pongal festival and Jallikattu, the traditional bull-taming sport, have caught the attention of the national parties.

NGOs have filed a lawsuit against the French State for doing too little to fight climate change as citizens around the world step up their efforts to force stronger moves to cut carbon emissions.

There is still a lack of information for, what proportion of pregnancies in India start off without the consent of the woman, even though the veil of marriage may cover it legally and culturally.

The apex court’s Bench explained how merit is served by permitting candidates belonging to reserved categories compete with ‘general’ candidates.

India has officially begun its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council along with Norway, Mexico, Ireland and Kenya.

While the first bird flu cases were reported majorly in 2006 and India declared itself free of bird flu in September 2019, the country today is again amidst bird flu outbreak

The growth in India's real GDP during 2020-21 is estimated at -7.7% as compared to the growth rate of 4.2% in 2019-20, said government on Thursday as part of its first advance estimates of the economic growth.

The draft of the 5^th National Science Technology and Innovation Policy has been finalized and is now available for public consultation.

The Centre, in a first move of its kind, has issued Rs 5,500 crore in zero-coupon bonds for recapitalising Punjab and Sind Bank (P&SB) and allowed it to park the paper in its held-to-maturity (HTM) category at face value rather than the discounted market rate.