GS2: Governance
- Fixing the Vaccine Crunch The unprecedented rise in COVID-19 cases has changed vaccine hesitancy to vaccine advocacy
GS2: Schemes
- Yojna Reality Check While 10.35 crore PM-JAY Cards have been issued since the launch of ‘the world’s largest health assurance scheme’ in September 2018, it has proved to be of little use in the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic.
GS2: Schemes for vulnerable sections
- How to adopt a child legally During a crisis, an outreach programme must warn everyone not to entertain any illegal adoption offers
GS2: International Relations
- Evaluate the Ladakh crisis, keep China at bay A critical assessment of the stand-off offers New Delhi key lessons in managing the strategic competition with China
GS3: Science and Tech
- COVID-19: Why liquid oxygen should be handled properly Medical oxygen may be more precious than gold in India right now as COVID-19 rips us apart; but medical personnel must be thoroughly familiar with liquid oxygen’s properties before being allowed to handle it
- Queries raised on DRDO's COVID drug Experts flag lack of published data on performance in human trials, history of drug’s use in cancer cure
GS3: Energy
- Distributed renewable energy: How to make it work for India DRE projects have greater scalability and offer substantive co-benefits; they need a more favourable regulatory and policy environment
- IREDA bags "Green Urja Award" IREDA under the administrative control of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) is the only dedicated institution for financing Renewable Energy (RE) & Energy Efficiency (EE) projects in India. Since, its inception the company has played a catalytic role in developing market for financing RE & EE projects. IREDA has over the years sanctioned loans aggregating to Rs. 96,601 crores, disbursed Rs. 63,492 cores and supported more than 17,586 MW of RE capacity in the country till date.
GS3: Economy
- How rising metal prices affect the Indian Economy Metal prices are on a tear as investors bet on global economic recovery amid supply side constraints. China’s benchmark iron ore futures surged 10% to a record high on Monday. Mint looks at the reasons behind the rally.
