The Hindu
GS1: Salient Features of Indian Society
- The many shades of intolerance Intolerance in India is discussed mostly within the framework of religion and not caste
GS2: Parliament and State Legislatures—Structure, Functioning, Conduct of Business, Powers & Privileges and Issues Arising out of these.
- Parliament is abdicating its oversight role The monsoon session which has ended is another example of Parliament being quite ineffective in all its functions
GS2: Issues Relating to Development & Management of Social Sector/Services
- Squaring up to India’s education emergency In making up for months of lost formal learning, there needs to be action on the education, health and livelihood fronts
GS2: Government Policies & Interventions for Development
- Could India have performed even better at the Olympics? Building champions from the school level is what India should aim to do
GS3: Disaster Management
- Another warning Landslips in Himachal Pradesh point to the need for a new development paradigm
GS3: Environmental Conservation
- Common survey to count elephants and tigers Pressing need to improve and harmonise the population estimation methods: Environment Minister
Indian Express
GS2: Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections
- Why are so many sanitation worker deaths uncounted? Lack of data, failure to enforce provisions of Prevention of Employment of Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act are major reasons. The pandemic has only worsened the situation
GS2: Salient Features of Representation of People's Act, Parliament
- Criminalisation of politics must be curbed S Y Quraishi writes: While SC recently expressed anguish over the issue, legislature and political parties remain reluctant to act.
GS2: Indian Constitution
- Allahabad HC quashes detention of 3 under NSA in UP cow slaughter case Ordering their release, the court in its August 5 order observed: “There was no material for reaching the conclusion that the petitioners/detenues would repeat the activity in future”.
GS3: Indian Economy, Mobilization of resources
- How e-RUPI can transform government’s welfare schemes As a one-to-many payments facilitator, it will help the government sharpen targeted welfare programmes. The private sector will find it helpful to disburse non-cash benefits to employees and support focussed CSR programmes. Later, individuals could use it for gifting.
GS3: Indian Economy, Mobilization of resources
- Explained: What is the sovereign right to taxation? While scrapping the retrospective levy is believed to provide clarity to investors by removing a major source of ambiguity on taxation laws, the government has stressed the need to establish its “sovereign right to taxation”.
GS3: Science and Technology
- Explained: Why ISRO’s EOS-03 launch failed ISRO EOS-3 launch: The launch would have marked India’s return to normal spaceflight, but has failed. How important is the rocket, and how far will its failure impact the upcoming missions Gaganyaan, Chandrayaan-3 and NISAR?
- GS2: Schemes for vulnerable sections Explained: Why NCPCR has recommended that minority schools be brought under RTE The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has released a report assessing minority schools in the country. What has it found, and what are its recommendations?
Down To Earth
GS2/3: Transparency and accountability, Environmental pollution
- How transparent are India’s pollution control boards? Here is CSE’s ranking The state pollution control boards (SPCB) and pollution control committees (PCC) in India generate large quantities of data every day, online or manually. Most of them, however, take minimal initiative to disclose the information in public domain, observed the authors of a new report by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based non-profit.
PIB Corner
GS3: Energy
- India achieves 100 GW Milestone of Installed Renewable Energy Capacity The total installed renewable energy capacity in India, excluding large hydro, has crossed the mile-stone of 100 GW.Today India stands at 4th position in the world in terms of installed RE capacity, 5th in solar and 4th in wind in terms of installed capacity.
