Today’s(January 28, 2022) Important News Headlines

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

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Today’s(January 28, 2022) Important News Headlines

In this daily series, we bring the Daily Important 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(P & M)
GS 1, GS 2 & GS 3	1	Central Asia meet forms Afghan group	1. Central Asia’s landlocked countries 2. Afghan group
GS 3	1	Air India back in Tata Group hangar	1. Disinvestment
DGS 3	5	Condition of Mullaperiyar dam satisfactory, CWC tells top court	1. Central Water Commission
GS 1	6	Punjab is more than just another election	Land-owning dominant castes in States (the Reddys, Khammas, Lingayats, Nayars, Vokkaligas, Kapus, to name a few)!
GS 3	6	India’s economy and the challenge of informality	Q. Since 2016, the Government made several efforts to formalise the economy but policy efforts to formalise the economy have gained limited results. How to formalise the economy? Discuss.
GS 2	6	Wrong route	1. Articles 163 and 164 of the Constitution. 2. Lok Ayukta
GS 2 & GS 3	7	What approach should we adopt to treat Omicron?	Q. In India, the best hospital is probably on par with or better than some hospitals in the West, but the worst hospitals are really bad.
GS 2	7	Seeds of suspicion	U.S.-Russia ties
GS 1, GS 2 & GS 3	8	‘Growing threat to rights in India’	Q. Do you agree with the phrase that ”In recent years, we have experienced the emergence of trends and practices that dispute the well-established principle of civic nationalism and interposes a new and imaginary practice of cultural nationalism”? Justify your opinion.
GS 3	9	India seen boosting budget spending on infrastructure	Fiscal Planning?