UPSC 2023 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context With over twenty regional languages, each with its own culture and history, language was always going to be a tricky issue for India. Remarks by a notable Hindi actor to the effect that Hindi is the national language of India has… Continue reading [Burning Issue] National Language Debate

UPSC 2023 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen was on two–day official visit to India. She has heaped all praises for the robustness of Indian democracy. She went on to say that ‘World Watches When Indians Cast Their Vote’. Both… Continue reading [Burning Issue] India-EU Relations

UPSC 2023 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Sri Lanka continues to grapple with its worst-ever economic crisis as it has defaulted on all of its external debt of about $51 billion – after running out of foreign exchange for imports, calling it the last resort. So while domestic… Continue reading [Burning Issue] China’s Debt Trap Diplomacy

UPSC 2023 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context The recent anti-encroachment drive in northwest Delhi’s violence-hit Jahangirpuri has become the latest flashpoint between political parties in the national capital. The matter also reached the Supreme Court, which ordered a stay on the drive. However, dissidents has now put questions… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Demolition of Encroachments

UPSC 2023 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context The importance of care work is now widely acknowledged and covered in various international commitments such as the SDGs. However, the investment in the care economy has not matched the pace. What is the care economy? The care economy includes child… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Care Economy

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have been often thought as a gateway to a future written in chrome, operating on a virtual cloud. Even in Budget 2022-23, AI was described as a sunrise technology that would “assist sustainable development at scale and… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Artificial Intelligence and Climate change

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is aggravating rapidly, putting citizens through enormous hardship. Reasons for the Crisis The first wave of the pandemic in 2020 offered early and sure signs of distress. In-migration: Thousands of Sri Lankan laborers in West Asian countries were… Continue reading [Burning Issue] India-Sri Lanka Relations

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context The Prime Minister of Nepal made his first bilateral visit abroad to India since taking his oath in July 2021. The visit was a success in terms of launching connectivity projects and signing Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs). Bilateral dialogues, strengthened economic connections and… Continue reading [Burning Issue] India-Nepal Relations

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Russia’s war on Ukraine has decisively shaped international opinion. Indian foreign policy is also going to be affected in a profound manner. India-Russia Relation – Background India and Russia have enjoyed good relations since 1947 wherein Russia helped India in attaining… Continue reading [Burning Issue] India-Russia Relations

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context The theme of this year’s World Water Day was ‘Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible’. The primary focus is to draw attention to the role of groundwater in water and sanitation systems, agriculture, industry, ecosystems, and climate change adaptation. Groundwater helps reduce… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Groundwater Depletion in India

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Pakistan’s opposition parties are ready to move a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan. The country is facing a recurring financial crisis and Khan is accused of mismanaging the economy. What is the real issue? Anger against the govt: Pakistan’s… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Political Crisis in Pakistan

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Recently, the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022 was introduced in Lok Sabha. The Bill seeks to amend the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 passed by Parliament. The Act was earlier amended in 2011 by Delhi Legislative Assembly to trifurcate the… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Delhi-Centre Tussle

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the progress of the rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrants, including Kashmiri Pandits, during a meeting with Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant-Governor Manoj Sinha in Jammu.  According to the Home Ministry, only 17% of the proposed accommodation for… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Kashmiri Pandit Exodus

Context After a prolonged court case in Ahmedabad Serial Blast Case 2008, a special court pronounced the punishments for the convicted, with 38 given death penalty. This is the highest number ever given death sentence in any ruling in India. On July 26, 2008, a series of 21 bomb blasts hit Ahmedabad within a span… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Debate over Capital Punishment

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Recently, Chief Election Commissioner in an interview said the Election Commission is ready to hold simultaneous elections on the lines of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for ‘One Nation One Election’. What are simultaneous polls? Currently, elections to the state assemblies… Continue reading [Burning Issue] One Nation-One Election

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Tobacco is a silent killer in our midst that kills an estimated 1.35 million Indians every year. Status of Tobacco Consumption in India According to the Global Youth Tobacco Survey, India has the second-largest number (268 million) of tobacco users in the world and of… Continue reading [Burning Issue] The Tobacco Pandemic

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has put global commodity markets in a tizzy. It is now threatening to push up farming costs and send food prices soaring. Food inflation in India may thus soon enter doubledigit territory. Let’s takes a look at… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Russian conflict and the impact on food, farming

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context The war between Russia and Ukraine is not only being fought on the ground, but also in cyberspace. Cyberattacks on state-owned digital assets, including websites and banking services, have gradually increased in both frequency and sophistication, beginning with Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Age of Cyber Warfare

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context Latin America is generally understood to consist of the entire continent of South America in addition to Mexico, Central America, and the islands of the Caribbean whose inhabitants speak a Romance language such as Spanish, Portuguese, and French. History of Indo-Latin… Continue reading [Burning Issue] India and Latin America Relations