CURRENT AFFAIRS

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 27, Nov 2021

Reference News:China, the world’s largest crude importer, is non-committal about its intentions to release oil from its reserves on a request from the United States, while OPEC producers were not mulling changing tactics in light of the U.S. action.What’s the issu

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 26, Nov 2021

Reference News:A number of Chinese companies have already begun “on-site inspections” of possible projects to tap lithium deposits in Afghanistan, having received the green light to do so from the Taliban regime.Background:Lithium is one of many resources in Afghanis

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 25, Nov 2021

Reference News:The Philippines will resume a military resupply mission for the country’s troops stationed on an atoll (Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin Shoal) in the South China Sea will resume this week, after it was aborted last week when it was b

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 25, Nov 2021

Reference News:India – USA have reaffirmed their commitment to take economic relationship between the two countries to the next high level – to integrate the economies across sectors and re-launched the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum (TPF) that was convened four

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 24, Nov 2021

China has announced USD 1.5 billion development assistance for the ASEAN besides the elevation of the ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership to strengthen security cooperation with the 10-nation bloc, amid the US push into the resource rich Indo-Pacific.Xi made the rem

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 23, Nov 2021

The only real substantive outcome of recently held virtual summit between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping has been some unconfirmed reports of the two sides, the US & China, agreeing to hold strategic nuclear talks sometime in the near future. Issues with China’s

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 23, Nov 2021

Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate.Context:China has announced USD 1.5 billion development assistance for the ASEAN besides the elevation of the ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership to stre

• Vaid's ICS, Lucknow
• 22, Nov 2021

Topics Covered: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.Context:Every year, men in Turkey murder hundreds of women, and trending hashtags on social media and protests on the street have become sadly fami

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 20, Nov 2021

BharatNet is government’s flagship rural broadband connectivity project that would eventually lead to ‘1.5 billion Indians being connected to the Internet over the next two years’.In 2014, the Narendra Modi government inherited the National Optical Fibre Network in

• IAS NEXT, Lucknow
• 19, Nov 2021

Reference News:Pakistan’s Parliament has enacted a law to give Indian death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav the right to file a review appeal against his conviction by a military court.Background:Mr. Jadhav, a 51-year-old retired Indian Navy officer, was sent