UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context The recent killing of civilians by security forces in a case of alleged mistaken identity in Nagaland has once again rekindled the debate over the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Six civilians said to be workers in a coal mine… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Nagaland Incident and Furore over AFSPA

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Introduction Green Revolution in India History of Green Revolution in India What are the Objectives of Green Revolution? Basic Features of the Green Revolution Phases of Green Revolution in India (1) First Phase of Green Revolution (1965-66 to 1980) (2) Second Phase… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Green Revolution in India

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Recently, the Lok Sabha has passed the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2021. The Bill seeks to regulate and supervise assisted reproductive technology clinics and banks, prevent misuse of the technology, and promote the ethical practice of the services. The bill has… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Surrogacy in India

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Introduction Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometers. Nanoscience and nanotechnology are the study and application of extremely small things and can be used across all the other science fields, such as… Continue reading [Burning Issue] NANOTECHNOLOGY

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) This month has the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru and the 60th anniversary of the Non-Aligned Movement. The concept of a country’s policy not aligning with others can be traced to Congress of Vienna (1814–15) when Switzerland’s neutrality, by which that country… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Non-Aligned Movement

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Ports infrastructure is key to the development of any nation. India has a coastline spanning about 7,500 km. Around 90 percent of India’s external trade by volume and 70 percent by value are handled by ports. Imports of crude petroleum, iron ore,… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Ports Development

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the central government will repeal all three farm laws. Farmers have been protesting against the farm laws and demanding their rollback since 2020. The Modi government has been confrontational with farmers’ organizations, giving so far… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Farm Laws and Farmers Protest

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Context The RBI has repeatedly reiterated its strong views against cryptocurrencies since it gained popularity in India following a sudden boom in Bitcoin prices. The central bank’s argument is that cryptocurrencies pose serious threats to the macroeconomic and financial stability of the… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Crypto Banking and Decentralized Finance

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread economic uncertainty globally, and coupled with the US-China trade war, has caused countries to adopt protectionist measures. While the regulations introduced by India, the US, the UK, and the European Union have taken different forms, the… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Protectionism, Globalization and COVID-19 Pandemic

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) In the age of the digital economy, data is the “new oil” and the “new gold”. Lots of apps have no revenue generation, but their only benefit is data. This business model of the Internet is called Surveillance capitalism, where all social… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Data: The New Gold

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) The institutionalization of police brutality, as an unofficial policy of the State, poses a serious challenge to every modern civilization. It doesn’t just raise obvious questions around respect for human rights and the rule of law but is also a serious threat… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Institutionalization of police brutality

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace – the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Nobel Prizes 2021

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC), also known as COP26 is scheduled to be held in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, between 31 October and 12 November 2021. Let us look at in detail the UNFCCC and the latest COP26. Climate change:… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Glasgow Climate Change Conference (COP 26)

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) 5G is the next-generation wireless cellular technology that will provide faster and more reliable communication with ultra-low latency. A government panel report points out that with 5G, the peak network data speeds are expected to be in the range of 2-20 Gigabit… Continue reading [Burning Issue] 5G Technology

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) India, with a population of over 1.3 billion, has seen tremendous growth in the past two decades. Gross Domestic Product has increased 4.5 times and per capita consumption has increased 3 times. Similarly, food grain production has increased almost 2 times. However,… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Hunger and Poverty in India

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) India has achieved its long-pending goal of 100% electrification of its villages. But there is still a long way to go in providing electricity to all households in the country. According to Central Electricity Authority (CEA), a village is considered electrified only… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Rural Electrification

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) With rising power demands in the domestic sector, Indian utilities are facing a severe shortage of coal, which is the primary fuel powering 70 percent of India’s energy consumption. More than half of the country’s 135 coal-fired power plants are running on… Continue reading [Burning Issue] India’s Coal Crisis

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Global elites continue to exploit the cracks in tax laws and the lax jurisdiction in tax havens to ring-fence their assets, through complex offshore structures, from scrutiny by authorities. The leak of financial documents, called the Pandora Papers, follows similar such exposés… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Pandora Papers Leak

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission via video conferencing. Currently, the program is being implemented on a pilot basis in six Union Territories. Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission has the potential to bring revolutionary changes to our health… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission

UPSC 2022 countdown has begun! Get your personal guidance plan now! (Click here) The concept of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) gained widespread popularity in the early 20th century when budgets began to be regarded as a significant fiscal innovation tool to achieve gender equality. Since then, more than 80 countries have adopted some variant of… Continue reading [Burning Issue] Gender Responsive Budgeting amid COVID-19