Highlights of India Discrimination Report, 2022

Oxfam India’s latest ‘India Discrimination Report 2022’ finds women in India despite their same educational qualifications and work experience as men will be discriminated in the labour market due to societal and employers’ prejudices. About the report The Oxfam India report refers to unit-level data from: 61st round National Sample Survey (NSS) data on employment-unemployment… Continue reading

Eastern Economic Forum (EEF)

Russia hosted the seventh Eastern Economic Forum- EEF Vladivostok from September 5 to 8. The four-day forum is a platform for entrepreneurs to expand their businesses into Russia’s Far East (RFE). What is the Eastern Economic Forum-EEF? The EEF was established in 2015 aiming to encourage foreign investments in the RFE to display: Economic potential… Continue reading

Centre cites law to deny medical seats to Ukraine-returnees

The Centre has told the Supreme Court that the law does not allow undergraduate medical students, who fled the “war-like situation” in Ukraine, to be accommodated in Indian medical colleges. Which laws is the govt talking about? There are no provisions either under the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956, or the National Medical Commission Act,… Continue reading

Tamil Nadu’s new Breakfast Scheme in Schools

Tamil Nadu CM has launched the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme for students of Class I to V in government schools. CM’s Breakfast Scheme The scheme covers around 1.14 lakh students in 1,545 schools which include 417 municipal corporation schools, 163 municipality schools and 728 taluk and village panchayat-level schools. The inauguration of the scheme marks… Continue reading

Delay in govt.’s flagship PMAY-G scheme to invite penalty

Pulling up the States for the delay in completion of the government’s flagship rural household scheme — Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana –Gramin (PMAY-G) — the Union Ministry of Rural Development has come up with a set of penalties that the State governments will have to bear for any further delay. About PMAY-G Scheme In pursuance… Continue reading

FAME India

Context Centralized procurement of 5,450 electric buses and subsequent increase in ambition to have 50,000 e-buses on the country’s roads by 2030 under FAME scheme. With the shared aim to rapidly electrify a key pillar of India’s public transportation, recent governance efforts of Union and state governments have created a new business model for e-buses.… Continue reading

Hindi not a competitor of regional languages: Home Minister

Union Home Minister has appealed to guardians to speak to children in their mother tongue to enable them to learn Hindi without much effort, on the Hindi Divas. What did HM say on Hindi? He said it was time that inferiority complex around Indian languages, instilled by the British, was overthrown from people’s conscience with… Continue reading

[pib] Indian Navy participates in Exercise Kakadu hosted by Australia

INS Satpura and a P8 I Maritime Patrol Aircraft of the Indian Navy reached Darwin in Australia on for participation in the multinational Exercise Kakadu – 2022, hosted by the Royal Australian Navy. Exercise KAKADU Exercise KAKADU, which started in 1993, is the premier multilateral regional maritime engagement exercise hosted by the Royal Australian Navy… Continue reading

What is a Windfall Tax?

Finance Minister has defended the windfall tax imposed by the Centre on domestic crude oil producers, saying that it was not an ad hoc move but was done after full consultation with the industry. What is a Windfall Tax? Windfall taxes are designed to tax the profits a company derives from an external, sometimes unprecedented… Continue reading

Fighting anaemia

Context The recent National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) data shows anaemia rates increased from 53 per cent to 57 per cent in women and 58 per cent to 67 per cent in children in 2019-21. Definition of anaemia The WHO defines anaemia as a condition where the number of red blood cells or the haemoglobin… Continue reading

Patents in India

Context Increasing the efficiency of processing patent applications and wider academia-industry collaboration are crucial steps for patent system. What is patent system? A patent system is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in… Continue reading

Who was Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker?

A recently-released Malayalam film Pathonpatham Noottandu (‘Nineteenth Century’) is based on the life of Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, a social reformer from the Ezhava community in Kerala who lived in the 19th century. Who was Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker? Born into a well-off family of merchants in Kerala’s Alappuzha district, Panicker was one of the most influential… Continue reading

What is National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM)?

The latest National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) released September 13, 2022 by the Union health ministry added 34 new medicines and dropped 26 old ones from the previous list. What is NLEM? As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), Essential Medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. Ministry… Continue reading

GST Council

The Union Finance Minister has heaped praises on Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council. Why in news? FM was reacting to a case made by Fifteenth Finance Commission chief N.K. Singh to set up a Fiscal Council with the Centre and States. This is another such recommended body to act as a bridge between the… Continue reading

Scientists remain sceptical about how Liquid Nano Urea benefits crops

Liquid Nano Urea, a fertilizer patented and sold by the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd. (IFFCO), has been approved by the government for commercial use because of its potential to substantially reduce the import bill, but several experts have questioned the science underlying its efficacy. What is Liquid Nano Urea (LNU)? Urea is chemical nitrogen… Continue reading

Public health should be led by doctor alone

Context Doctor shortages are creating hurdles in health emergency response What is the crux of the article in simple words? Medical qualification and expertise is necessary to deliver quality health services by medical professionals unlike by general health care workers who lack competency. What is public health? Public health has been defined as “the science… Continue reading

Gyanvapi -Kashi Vishwanath Temple Complex Dispute

The Varanasi District and Sessions Court has rejected the plea of the organization which manages the Gyanvapi mosque complex, challenging the maintainability of the civil suits filed by some women seeking the right to worship Goddesses on the outer wall of the complex. About Gyanvapi Mosque The Gyanvapi Mosque was built in 1669 during the… Continue reading

IIP gives us true health of our economy

Context India’s statistics ministry generates only one high-frequency gauge of economic activity. And that lone barometer, the index of industrial production (IIP), is completely broken. What is IIP? The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) is an index that indicates the performance of various industrial sectors of the Indian economy. It is a composite indicator of the… Continue reading

Cheetah reintroduction

Context This is the world’s first intercontinental translocation of a carnivore. It is even more unique because this is the first time cheetahs has reintroduced in an unfenced protected area (PA). The Government is preparing to translocate the first batch from South Africa and Namibia to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. About Asiatic Cheetah Feature: Cheetah,… Continue reading

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