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The Hindu
GS1: Population related issues
- Is a caste census desirable? It is required to document both the disadvantages and privileges of various communities in India
GS1: Issues related to women
- Arms and the women Gender parity in the Army is happening at a slow pace, and is mostly led by the courts
GS2: Effect of Policies & Politics of Developed & Developing Countries on India's Interests
- The Abraham Accords as India’s West Asia bridge The signing of the Accords has helped remove strategic obstacles for New Delhi and aided defence cooperation
GS2: Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Education
- Back to basics It is important for India to work on ways to strengthen foundational education for children
GS2: Schemes for vulnerable sections
- Activists flay exemption to disability quota rule The Social Justice Ministry is supposed to safeguard the rights of the differently abled, say activists
GS3: Agricultural marketing
- Record sugar exports help reduce cane dues Pending dues to farmers a thorny political issue in several States
GS3: Energy
- Ministry floats draft rules for gencos’ power sale to third party The draft amendment rules are placed on the website of the Ministry of Power.
Prelims Corner
- Rajnath opens Defence Startup Challenge 5.0 iDEX provides strong foundation for innovation, R&D to the industry, he says
Indian Express
GS1: History, Art and Culture
- Explained: An ancient Dravidian language link with the Indus Valley civilisation A new research paper published in the peer-reviewed journal of the Springer Nature Group has provided some interesting new insight on the linguistic culture of the Harappans.
GS3: Environmental pollution and degradation
- Explained: Ozone pact in climate fight India has ratified the Kigali Amendment to the 1989 Montreal Protocol for protection of the ozone layer. This is for phasing out compounds called HFCs, which happen to be powerful greenhouse gases.
GS3: Internal security
- Government should take note of the signals of unease in Northeast states In the best interest of the region, governments need to eschew the emphasis on singular identities and promote a politics of inclusion. That’s the warning from Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland, and now Meghalaya.
GS2: Structure, Organization & Functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary
- Collegium’s list of recommendations to Supreme Court breaks a deadlock — and leaves a trace While the possibility of a woman CJI has now come into view, the fact that her tenure will last just over a month highlights the urgency of planning ahead, widening the pool — more women judges need to be elevated in the high courts.
GS3: Indian economy, inclusive growth
- What India’s informal sector needs right now The lack of frequent and up-to-date economic indicators makes it hard to track India’s large informal sector, which employs around 80 per cent of the labour force and produces about 50 per cent of GDP.
Down to Earth
GS1: Geographical phenomenon, GS3: Environmental degradation
- A third of India’s coastline underwent erosion in 28 years, Bengal worst affected As much as 32 per cent of India’s coastline underwent sea erosion and 27 per cent of it expanded between 1990 and 2018, according to a recent technical report by the National Centre for Coastal Research (NCCR) under the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences.
GS3: Environmental pollution and degradation
- Why the Global South needs birds and bees more than the North Instability in yield of pollinator-dependent crops a ‘serious’ or ‘high risk’ in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Oceania
PIB Corner
GS3: Infrastructure
- Government of India developed robust mechanism for Online Trading of Energy Saving Certificates PAT scheme as a market-based mechanism, under National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE) is to enhance cost effectiveness through certification of excess energy savings in energy intensive industries that can be traded.
- Union Minister for Power and MNRE takes review of implementation of PM-KUSUM and Rooftop Solar Programme Phase-II On the implementation of Rooftop Solar Programme Ph-II, the Minister re-emphasised the need for wide publicity and awareness about the Scheme taking it to each and every household, as installation of rooftop solar will bring down the electricity consumption of the households and save electricity expenditure.
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