UPSC civil services aspirants often find it hard to keep up with the news event and keep a tab of the daily happenings. Many civil services toppers have conveyed to reading multiple newspapers and keeping tab of online portals to get their daily news along with their preparations. If you are one of the aspirants, we got you covered. Every Saturday, we bring you major happenings from around the week:
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa Top Centre’s Good Governance Index; UP Shows Big Improvement
In 2021, India Did a US-Russia Rebalance as China Remained Brazen and Afghanistan Collapsed
Tackling China in Eastern Ladakh was the biggest immediate concern with which India stepped into 2021. The friction was over six months old by then. India had warned Beijing of an adverse impact on the overall bilateral relations due to the ongoing tension. Eight rounds of Corps commander-level talks and almost an equal number of diplomatic-level talks had taken place by the end of 2020 but to no avail. The first breakthrough came in February 2021. Out of the over five friction points, the two sides agreed to disengage at Pangong Lake. In his statement in Parliament, defence minister Rajnath Singh said, “Disengagement in the Pangong lake area envisages that both sides will cease their forward deployments in a phased, coordinated and verified manner… These are mutual and reciprocal steps and any structures that had been built by both sides since April 2020 in both the North and South Bank area will be removed and the landforms will be restored.”
DRDO Successfully Conducts Flight Test of Indigenous Expendable Aerial Target ‘Abhyas’
BJP Launches Micro Donation Drive to Become ‘Aatmanirbhar’, PM Modi Chips in with Rs 1,000
On the birth anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Saturday, BJP national president JP Nadda launched a micro donation drive in the party’s road to becoming a self-reliant organisation in the service of the nation.Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon chipped in with Rs 1,000 and shared the launch of the donation drive on Twitter. He tweeted, “I have donated Rs. 1,000 towards the party fund of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Our ideal of always putting Nation First and the culture of lifelong selfless service by our cadre will be further strengthened by your micro donation. Help make BJP strong. Help make India strong.”
Odisha CM Announces Rs 6,000 Special Covid Assistance for Newspaper Hawkers
In a first, the Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced Rs 4.38 crore special Covid assistance for newspaper hawkers. Under this assistance, Rs 6,000 will be provided to each registered hawker in the state. The Department of Information & Public Relations prepared and registered digital databases of 7,300 hawkers. The assistance will be provided by the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. The amount will be credited directly to their bank account.
Shringla Raises Security Concerns with Myanmar’s Military Junta; Emphasises India’s Interest in Seeing Early Return to Democracy
Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has raised matters relating to India’s security in the border areas with Myanmar’s State Administration Council as he made the first high-level outreach to the military junta here during which he emphasized New Delhi’s interest in seeing the country’s early return to democracy and the release of detainees and prisoners. Shringla is here on a two-day working visit, in the first by the top Indian diplomat after Myanmar’s military deposed the democratically-elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup on February 1. The powerful State Administration Council (SAC) is headed by General Min Aung Hlaing, who seized power in February.
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