Current Affairs Questions & Answers for UPSC
Current Affairs is the most dynamic section of both UPSC Prelims and Mains. Since 2014, the relevance of the current affairs to the UPSC preparation has increased significantly. However, the questions in the Static part of General Studies is becoming challenging in the recent years, the questions from current affairs also has become tricky and challenging.
Benefits of Current Affairs Questions for IAS Exam
The IAS Exam aspirants can get the following benefits while going through the below-mentioned current affairs questions:
- Stay updated – The following questions will help the IAS aspirants to stay updated with the events of national and international importance.
- Revision made easy – Even though the aspirants go through daily newspaper and various magazines, the question and answer format will make the concepts more clear and the revision is also made effortless.
- Answered by UPSC Experts – The questions are answered by UPSC aspirants who have experience in the subject for at least more than 3 years.
- Stay Ahead – These questions will make the UPSC/IAS aspirant ‘practised’ in the current affairs, which will give a huge leverage to the practised aspirants among others in the exam.
- Covers All – This section is inclusive of current affairs questions in national and international level, also includes questions from the latest events in Economy, Science & Technology, Environment, Polity, Art & culture, various government initiatives and schemes and other miscellaneous topics.
- Productive – These questions are very essential in the point of UPSC Prelims and also very relevant to the UPSC Mains. The aspirants of other government exams can also find it very helpful for the above-mentioned reasons.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and a subsequent thaw in relations between the East and West, Russia was also invited to join...
Russia joined the Group of 7 - G7 in 1998, creating the G8, but was excluded in 2014 for its takeover of Crimea. Further details on Group of...
Russia was excluded from the G7 in 2014 after it invaded Crimea, and its continued disrespect and flaunting of international rules and norms is...
Labor migration to the UAE is regulated by a private sponsorship system known as kafala, which has existed in the Gulf Cooperation Council states...
Saudi Arabia has announced certain reforms to ease the contractual restrictions giving employers control over the migrant workers. The reforms...
Qatar has effectively dismantled the country’s long-criticised kafala employment system. As per the new labour rules in the energy-rich nation,...
Under the Kafala system a migrant worker’s immigration status is legally bound to an individual employer or sponsor (kafeel) for their contract...
The kafala, or sponsorship, system defines the relationship between foreign workers and their local sponsor, or kafeel, which is usually their...
Saudi Arabia removes key restrictions on migrant workers, but reforms aren't the abolition of the kafala system as the key aspects of the Kafala...
The Kafala reforms have been implemented in Saudi Arabia, offering more job mobility to foreign workers. The amendments to the old Kafala system...
The Kafala system denies the migrant worker the basic human right to freedom of movement. The employer controls the mobility of the worker under...
China has a relatively low level of wealth per person as compared to other economies of the world Hence, it is not part of the G7 summit....
The 48th G7 Summit i.e. the G7 Summit 2022 will be held in Germany as per the upcoming rotation of the G7 Presidency. Further details on Group...
Germany will host the G7 Summit in 2022. The presidency of G7 meetings is held by each of the seven countries in turn, each year. The country...
The G7 leaders discuss a wide range of pressing topics, such as - COVID-19, pandemic preparedness and economic recovery, Geopolitical challenges...
The EU has regularly taken part in all meetings since the G7 Summit in Ottawa in 1981. It never holds the Presidency, therefore never...
G7 is the ‘group of 7’ of the largest advanced economies in the world getting together to address international economic and monetary issues....
The major purpose of the G-7 is to discuss and sometimes act in concert to help resolve global problems, with a special focus on economic issues....
Warangal was the capital of the Kakatiya kingdom which ruled between the 12th and 14th century. Prola Raja of Kakatiya is credited with the...
The Swayambhu Temple or Shambu Lingeshwara Swamy temple in Hanamkonda was constructed under the patronage of Kakatiyas King in the 13th century....
