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Union Cabinet approved the PM-PRANAM Scheme to incentivise states to promote alternative fertilisers

PIB

GS-3/Eco

• What is PM-PRANAM Scheme?
• What are its key features?

Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) and Tax Collected at Source (TCS)

PIB

GS-3/Eco

• What is Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) and Tax Collected at Source (TCS)? Its Recent changes

Report of the Secretary-General on Children and armed conflict

PIB

GS-3/Security

• India no longer figures in the United Nations General Assembly Security Council Children and Armed Conflict Report of the Secretary-General

72 Hoorain was granted ‘A’ certification in 2019, clarifies CBFC

AIR

GS-2/Governance 

• What is the role of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)? 

India and Tanzania have concluded the second edition of Joint Defence Cooperation Committee meeting

AIR

GS-3/Security

• India and Tanzania have concluded the second edition of Joint Defence Cooperation Committee meeting in Arusha.
• What are its key outcomes?

Groundwater extraction shifted the Earth’s axis: What a new study says

Indian Express

GS-3/Envmt

• What is Groundwater extraction?
• Is excessive extraction of groundwater for drinking and irrigation has shifted the Earth’s axis of rotation?

Despite Supreme Court’s caution on a Governor’s role, Ravi tests the limits

Indian Express

GS-2/Polity

• What does  “pleasure” of the Governor mean?
• What are roles and responsibilities of governor?

Govt removes extra import duty on US apples

Indian Express

GS-3/Economy

• Govt removes extra import duty on US apples: How it can impact domestic growers

What is aspartame, WHO may declare as ‘possibly carcinogenic’

Indian Express

GS-2/Health

• What is aspartame?
• Why WHO may declare it as ‘possibly carcinogenic’?

Michael Rosen wins this year’s PEN Pinter Prize

Indian Express

Awards

• What is PEN Pinter Prize?
• Who won this year’s award?

RBI released its Financial Stability report

AIR

GS-3/Economy

• What are key highlights of  Financial Stability report?

Scientists discover the Ripple Effect of Gravitational Waves across the Universe

AIR

GS-3/Science

• What are Gravitational waves? Its significance

Odisha’s Debrigarh Sanctuary freed from human settlement 

The Hindu Page 1

GS-3/Envmt

• Debrigarh Sanctuary
• What are the common reasons behind Man-Animal Conflicts? Its Solution

IIT-Kharagpur to develop tamper-proof signalling system for railways

The Hindu Page 4

GS-3/science

• What is tamper-proof signalling system? 
• How it will benefit the Indian Railways?

Assam’s delimitation test

The Hindu Page 10

GS-2/Polity

• What is the Election Commission’s draft proposal on delimitation? Why are people opposing it?

The Centre-state tussle over the Open Market Sale Scheme

The Hindu Page 10

GS-3/Eco

• What is the Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS)?
• Why has the FCI discontinued the sale of grains under OMSS to states?

India’s largest radio telescope plays vital role in detecting universe’s vibrations

The Hindu Page 12

GS-3/Science

• The Pune-based Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) was among the world’s six large telescopes used to monitor pulsars, called ‘nature’s best clocks’