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

Today’s(February 21, 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	Putin, Macron agree to work for ceasefire in east Ukraine	Q. What is the importance of the Trilateral Contact Group — Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE — to get all interested parties to commit to a ceasefire at the contact line? Discuss.
GS 1 & GS 2	6	Tapping technology for multilingual learning	1. International Mother Language Day 2022 2. It is our mother tongue that lends expression to our vision and aspirations, our values and ideals, as also our creative and literary endeavours. Discuss. 3. UNESCO 4. NEP 2020
GS 3	6	The Budget spells green shoots for agri-subsectors	Q. Though in this year’s budget there were no big-ticket announcements on agriculture and rural development, the allocations appear to be in the right direction. Discuss.
GS 3	6	Remiss regulator	1. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) 2. National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India.
GS 3	6	No slacking	1. antimicrobial resistance (AMR) 2. Discuss the ways through which governments must be regulating the sale and use of antibiotics.
GS 2 & GS 3	7	On an equal footing	Low-income States (LIS) vs High-income States (HIS)
GS 1	9	Manipur candidates gauge support from royal era ritual	1. firal chingkhatpa 2. Sanamahi faith
GS 2	10	EPFO plans new pension scheme	Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
	The Indian Express
GS 3	14	Chip Manufacturing…	CAPEX
GS2	9	EU in the Indo-Pacific	Ministerial Indo-Pacific Forum