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Digital divide in India

The COVID-19 induced lockdown highlights India’s great digital divide. Practice question for mains: Q.What are the various facets of Digital Divide in India? Discuss how the Digital India initiative has impacted ruling out India’s digital divide? What is Digital divide? A digital divide is any uneven distribution in the access to, use of, or impact… Continue reading Digital divide in India

What is the Gandhi-King Initiative?

A Bill to promote Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr’s legacies has been passed in American Senate. Practice question for mains: Q. Discuss how the civil rights movement in America is paralleled by India’s freedom struggle under Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi-King Initiative The initiative is an exchange program between India and the U.S. to study… Continue reading What is the Gandhi-King Initiative?

[pib] Atal Innovation Mission launches ‘AIM-iCREST’

NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), has launched AIM iCREST – an Incubator Capabilities enhancement program for a Robust Ecosystem, focused on creating high performing Startups. Note the following things about AIM-iCREST 1) Meaning of the acronym as it gives the central idea of the initiative 2) Aims and objective 3) Technological partners AIM-iCREST AIM… Continue reading [pib] Atal Innovation Mission launches ‘AIM-iCREST’

The South Asian-Gulf Migrant Crisis

The pandemic has exacerbated the plight of the migrant workers in the Gulf countries. This article examines the issue and suggests the ways to deal with it. Context The Covid-19 exposed the precarious conditions of migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Employers have used the crisis as an opportunity to retrench masses… Continue reading The South Asian-Gulf Migrant Crisis

What is Green-Ag Project?

The Union government has launched the Green-Ag Project in Mizoram, to reduce emissions from agriculture and ensure sustainable agricultural practices. Note the following things about Green-Ag Project: 1)Core objective 2)Implementing agencies 3)Regions of Implementation Green-Ag Project The Green-Ag project is designed to achieve multiple global environmental benefits in at least 1.8 million hectares (ha) of land… Continue reading What is Green-Ag Project?

Ammonia Pollution in Yamuna River

For the second time in a week, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) had to reduce water production capacity by 25 per cent after high levels of ammonia were detected in the Yamuna River. Try this PYQ from CSP 2019: Q. Consider the following statements: Agricultural soils release nitrogen oxides into the environment. Cattle release ammonia… Continue reading Ammonia Pollution in Yamuna River

What is Interplanetary Contamination?

As ambitious space missions are proliferating, along with advances in commercial space flight, astrobiologists have expressed concerns about possible ‘interplanetary contamination’. A statements based question can be expected from the two types of interplanetary contamination. What is Interplanetary Contamination? Interplanetary contamination refers to biological contamination of a planetary body by a space probe or spacecraft,… Continue reading What is Interplanetary Contamination?

SDGs amid Covid

Context As lockdown eases, return to business as usual is unimaginable in Asia and Pacific which was already off track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  Efforts to respond to the pandemic have revealed how many people in our societies live precariously close to poverty and hunger. Progress towards SDGs in pandemic  The SDGs … Continue reading SDGs amid Covid

Information war

Information war waged against India from across the border needs consideration. Three factors have triggered the war in the realm of information. This article examines the way in which it is perpetrated. Factors  Following three triggers are responsible for Pakistan’s information war. 1) The Balakot attack of February 2019. Balakot demolished Pakistan’s presumed nuclear equivalence… Continue reading Information war

Kashmir saffron gets GI certificate

The J&K administration has issued the certificate of geographical indication (GI) registration for saffron grown in the Kashmir Valley. Must read: GI Tags in news for 2020 Prelims All time GI tags in news Kashmir saffron It is cultivated and harvested in the Karewa (highlands) in some regions of Kashmir, including Pulwama, Budgam, Kishtwar and… Continue reading Kashmir saffron gets GI certificate

Need for open protocols and networks in the realm of internet

We are familiar with the dominance of some platforms on the internet. That dominance start to create problems. This article discusses the issues with dominance and suggests the solution drawing on the success of UPI. Platforms on the internet Platforms are technology layers that leverage the internet to bring together producers, resellers and consumers. Platforms… Continue reading Need for open protocols and networks in the realm of internet

In news: National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)

India’s premier organisation mandated to collect data about diseases, the NCDC is failing in its task as the spread of COVID-19 continues unabated. Practice question for mains: Q. Health infrastructure in India is hardly capable of handling any pandemic. Critically comment. About the National Centre for Disease Control The NCDC carries out nationwide disease surveillance… Continue reading In news: National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)

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