Today's(February 23, 2022) Important News Headlines

Today’s(February 23, 2022) Important News Headlines

In this daily series, we bring the Daily Important(Must Read) News Articles for UPSC Current Affairs(Prelims & Mains) Preparation, to make reading newspapers a simple and time-saving task.

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Today’s(February 23, 2022) Important News Headlines

In this daily series, we bring the Daily Important(Must Read) News Articles for UPSC Current Affairs(Prelims & Mains) Preparation, to make reading newspapers a simple, effective and time-saving task. We cover important articles for the GS paper of UPSC prelims along with four general studies papers (GS I, GS II, GS III and GS IV) as per the UPSC Mains syllabus.

Subject	The Hindu	Headlines	Relevance(Pre & Mains)
GS 2	1	De-escalation of Russia-Ukraine tensions top priority, says India	Q. India’s immediate priority on Russia-Ukraine tensions should be the de-escalation of tensions taking into account the legitimate security interests of all countries. Discuss.
GS 2 & GS 3	1	Panel on AFSPA removal misses ‘45-day’ deadline	Committee to study the withdrawal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act
GS 2	6	Untangling Kerala’s Lokayukta controversy	1. Kerala’s Lokayukta controversy? 2. Article 164 of the Indian Constitution?
GS 3	6	A new measure of inflation is brewing on the horizon	1. Consumer Price Index (CPI) 2. Had CPI been constructed in some objective way, say, by some well-defined survey on income and consumption? Or do they mostly depend on the ‘wisdom’ of a few experts? Discuss. 3. National Statistical Office (NSO)
GS 2	6	Russian recognition	1. Find Donbas region enclaves (Oblasts) of Donetsk and Luhansk in Eastern Ukraine in Atlas. 2. CAATSA 3. NATO
GS 2	7	Biden is risking his Indo-Pacific strategy	1. U.S.-Russia tensions over NATO’s forward policy? 2. The concept of ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ (FOIP)
	The Indian Express
GS 2	9	Indignity…	Law for preventing Manual Scavenging?
GS 3	9	The Fiscal Rethink…	1. Article 293 of the Constitution 2. Recommendations of the 12th, 13th & 14th FC
GS 3	9	Reforms Farming Need	1. APMC Model Act of 2003 & APLM Act of 2017 2. e-NAM