UPSC Exam Comprehensive News Analysis. Feb 4th, 2023 CNA. Download PDF

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• Rakhigarhi is the largest Harappan site in the Indian subcontinent whereas Dholavira is the fifth largest of eight major Harappan sites.

• In 2020, the Andhra Pradesh Assembly passed a statutory resolution seeking to abolish the State Legislative Council under Article 169 (1) of the Constitution.

• Parliament may by law (simple majority) provide for the abolition of the Legislative Council of a State having such a Council or for the creation of such a Council in a State having no such Council,

• Dholavira is located on the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees north).

• All 22 are members of the group called Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

• The Paris Club is a group of mostly western creditor countries that grew from a 1956 meeting in which Argentina agreed to meet its public creditors in Paris.

• Sen formed the Indian Reform Association (1870) to persuade the British government to enact the Native Marriage Act of 1872 (Civil marriage act)

• he Calcutta Unitarian Committee was formed by Raja Rammohan Roy,

• In 1881, Keshab Chandra Sen established Naba Bidhan (New Dispensation)