CONTEXT Recently, Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021 was released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI). The Index considers data from 109...
CONTEXT : The Prime Minister of India launched Gati Shakti National Master Plan on October 13, to renew the momentum towards India’s slowing economic growth engine, through major infrastructure upgrades...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize for economics 2021, one half to David Card for his “empirical contributions to labor economics” and another...
CONTEXT: The Union Cabinet has approved the Prime Minister POSHAN scheme or PM-POSHAN for providing one hot cooked meal in Government and Government-aided schools. The scheme will replace the existing national...
CONTEXT: The first and historic United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) 2021 was held in September, to find solutions and ‘catalyse momentum’ to transform the path the world produces, consumes...
Context: According to a report published in Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), the renewable energy installations in the country have slowed down. It is way lagging behind...
Background: The National Health Policy 2017 provisioned for the creation of a digital health technology ecosystem for the development of an integrated health information system, which could serve the needs...
CONTEXT: The Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers, on behalf of gig workers, has filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court, on September 20, 2021. DEMAND : Some relief...
Context: We are witnessing a new emphasis on the importance of Outer Space when countries across the world are coming together. Even Private companies are marking tremendous technological achievements. SpaceX,...
(GS 3, Economics, The Hindu, Excerpts from an interview of Dr. Pawan Goenka, Chairman, Steering Committee for Advancing Local Value-Add and Exports (SCALE) with The Hindu) The Indian manufacturing sector has...
