02 Jul 21 Ed-Tech
(GS PAPER- 2, Issues Relating to Development Source- Indian Express) Context- India’s school education landscape is facing challenges. The country was reeling under an acute learning shortage, even before the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Current Affairs
02 Jul 21 Envisioning the post pandemic smart city (The Hindu, GS-1, Urbanization)
Context:- Smart City Mission was started six years ago. Now during the pandemic we have seen that smart cities remain in the dark. Devastation caused by the pandemic further exacerbated...
01 Jul 21 Ration card Reform
(GS PAPER-3, INFRASTRUCTURE, SOURCE- THE HINDU) Context- Recently, the Apex Court directed all states and Union Territories to implement the One Nation, One Ration Card (ONORC) system, which will allow for inter-and intra-state...
01 Jul 21 How the Chinese Communist Party endures (The Hindu, GS-1, World History)
Context:- It’s been 100 years since Chinese communist party's inception. China has reached the zenith from the bottom and continues its upward trajectory. In this journey China has faced many...
01 Jul 21 Exercise Sea Breeze
(GS Paper- II, International Relations Source- The Hindu) Context: Two countries Ukraine and the USA have recently launched joint naval Exercise ‘Sea Breeze’ in the Black Sea to show Western cooperation with...
30 Jun 21 Méndez’s antitorture vision is still distant for India (GS-2, The Hindu, Polity and Law)
Context:- Torture is the police excess physically, psychologically and emotionally. Juan E. Méndez recounts his fears while being tortured for “intelligence” by security forces of the military in 1970s Argentina....
30 Jun 21 Controlling Population
(GS PAPER-1, SALIENT FEATURES OF INDIAN SOCIETY SOURCE- THE HINDU) Context- Recently, two Indian state governments – Uttar Pradesh and Assam – have championed aggressive population control measures. This proposal obtains...
29 Jun 21 Marginalisation of Sexual Minorities
(GS PAPER-1, FEATURES OF INDIAN SOCIETY SOURCE- THE HINDU) Context- During the 1970s homosexuality was served as a mental disorder. But, after the 1970s, with the efforts of some activists like Dr....
29 Jun 21 Reopen the files, reconsider privatization (The Hindu, GS-3, Economy)
Context:- Privatization is a process where the government decreases its shareholding in the Public sector Undertaking. Government also transfers the ownership of the management from government to the private sector....
28 Jun 21 On the margins with full equality still out of reach (GS-2, Governance, The Hindu)
Context:- This year Google Doodle in the month of zone celebrated about Dr. Frank Kameny (1925-2011) who was an American astronomer, veteran, and gay rights activist. He had ‘successfully challenged...