Today's(January 21, 2022) Important News Headlines

Subject	The Hindu	Headlines	Relevance
GS 3	6	The gentleman spymaster who had India enthralled	1. Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) 2. Rameshwar Nath Kao 3. Q. In recent decades, following the rise of international terrorism as a major intelligence concern worldwide, it is no longer possible to treat external and internal threats as two separate phenomena. Discuss.
GS 2	6	Drop the IAS CADRE rules amendments	1. Q. “You will not have a united India if you have not a good All India Service which has the independence to speak out its mind, which has a sense of security….” Discuss. 2. IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954
GS 2	6	Yemen’s tragedy	Q. If the fighting over the last seven years holds any lesson, it is that there can be no military solution to Yemen’s problems. Elaborate.
GS 3	7	Should the government loosen its purse strings?	1. Q. As inflation is driven by supply-side factors, tax policy can be used to cushion its impact 2. WPI and CPI
GS 3	10	Environment Ministry plan to rank States draws ire	1. State Environmental Impact Assessment Agencies (SEIAA) 2. Legal Initiative for Forest on Environment (LIFE) 3. Environment (Protection) Act
GS 3	10	Extended range BrahMos tested	1. Integrated Test Range, Chandipur 2. BrahMos
GS 2	11	‘Havana Syndrome’ not a foreign campaign: report	Havana Syndrome?
GS 3	12	India Ratings pegs FY23 GDP growth at 7.6%	private final consumption expenditure (PFCE)
GS 2	Text(01)	The question of OBC reservation in local bodies	1. Q. Barriers to political participation are not the same as barriers to education and employment. Discuss. 2. Ramesh Wagh v. State of Maharashtra &Ors. 3. K. Krishnamurthy (Dr.) v. Union of India (2010) 4. Vikas Krishnarao Gawali v. State of Maharashtra &Ors. (2021)