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🔴 Magdalena Andersson, who was appointed Sweden's first ever female Prime Minister, resigned within hours. Who is she, and what led to her resignation? Who will be Sweden's next PM?

🔴 A spike in demand recently saw thermal power plants running out of coal. Partha Sarathi Bhattacharyya, former chairman and managing director of Coal India, explains important issues around the present and the future of

What is RBI's scheme for PMC Bank depositors? What are the restrictions, and what happens to other deposits? 

🔴 Why do oil consuming countries keep strategic petroleum reserves? Why have the United States, India and some other nations announced concerted action to release a part of these reserves?

🔴 Taking note of multiple cases of a new Covid-19 variant, B.1.1529, the Health Ministry has issues guidelines to states regarding travellers coming from Botswana, South Africa & Hong Kong. What are new rules?

🔴 The act makes it unlawful to discriminate against a person on the grounds of religious belief or activity in a range of areas of life including work, education, access to premises and the provision

Noida International Airport at Jewar: It will have multi-modal connectivity owing to its proximity to the existing Yamuna Expressway, close to Eastern Peripheral Expressway and it will be linked with Delhi-Mumbai Expressway at Ballabhgarh.

Starting next season, players on the men's ATP Tour will be limited to one bathroom break of no more than three minutes per match.

Much like the Gopalapuram residence of late chief minister M Karunanidhi, Jayalalithaa’s Veda Nilayam also has a great significance in Tamil Nadu politics.

As soon as he is sworn in as chancellor, Olaf Scholz will have to deal with a surging pandemic, tensions at the Polish-Belarussian border, a Russian president mobilizing troops on Ukraine’s eastern border, a more

Through the Bharat Gaurav policy, the Railways has liberalised and simplified a part of operations that was otherwise carried out mostly by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). 

There is no apparent coordination among countries on the evolution of policy and regulatory response to virtual currencies. Responses range from a total ban to full acceptance — with a wide band in the middle.

Covid-19 in Europe: Almost 4,200 deaths were being reported daily across the region last week, double of the 2,100 daily deaths on average at the end of September.

Vela is named after a decommissioned submarine Vela, which served the Navy from 1973 to 2010. The earlier Vela belonged to Foxtrot class submarine of Soviet origin.

The BJP, which has been in power in Madhya Pradesh since 2003, excluding the 15-month-long rule of the Congress in 2018, has initiated a massive tribal outreach programme after losing tribal seats in a closely

Poking fun at China’s keyboard warriors, ‘little pinks’, a term used for nationalist youngsters who defend the country from criticism online, Namewee’s song makes several veiled references to human rights violations in China.

For many years after it was first launched in 1991, these exercises were bilateral, involving the Indian and the Maldives Coast Guards. In 2012, however, Sri Lanka joined these exercises for the first time

Health experts suggest looking at the case levels and masking rules in the place you are visiting before you travel.

Why was the DNA test conducted in the first place? Why was the baby put up for adoption? How did the Kerala government respond?

The Joint Committee of Parliament that studied the proposed Personal Data Protection Bill is believed to have adopted a final set of recommendations. The draft Bill is set to be tabled in Parliament’s Winter Session.

Punjab elections: Arvind Kejriwal has said that if AAP is voted to power in the state, it will transfer Rs 1,000 per month to the account of every woman aged 18 or above. What will

The white dwarf is pulling gaseous plasma from a nearby companion star and flinging it into space at around 3,000 kilometres per second.

Black Friday came to be associated with Thanksgiving since around the middle of the 20th century.

Poor urban planning and the construction of buildings on valleys and lake beds have led to the flood mess in Bengaluru, say experts.

The proposed museum will be set up in Rani Gaidinliu’s birthplace, Luangkao Village in Tamenglong district.