The Hindu
GS2: Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.
- The direction that the National Curriculum Framework needs to take Shaping a National Curriculum Framework using only the National Education Policy will be shortsighted
GS2: Issues and Challenges Pertaining to the Federal Structure
- Limits of cooperation Reforms in cooperative sector should not be at the cost of federal principles
GS2: Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections of the population by the Centre and States
- Govt. portal for children orphaned by COVID-19 The government introduced the portal to all the States and Union Territories on July 15, 2021
GS3: Indian Economy
- RBI plans digital currency pilots soon CBDC will help cut the cost of currency management while expediting real-time payments: Sankar
GS2: Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.
- Govt. nod for Central university in Ladakh (how central universities formed) Cabinet also approves integrated multi-purpose infrastructure devp. corpn. for UT
GS2: Structure, Organization and Functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary
- ‘HC appointments an ongoing process’ The Supreme Court Collegium, in the past one year, has recommended 80 names to be appointed as judges of various high courts, out of which 45 were appointed as judges and the remaining are under various stages of processing
Indian Express
GS3: Environmental Conservation
- Explained: Great Indian Bustards of Kutch – their habitats, existential threat On Monday, the Central government informed the Rajya Sabha that there were no Great Indian Bustards (GIB) in Kutch Bustard Sanctuary (KBS) in Gujarat's Kutch district as on January 1 this year.
GS2: Effect of Policies and Politics of Developed and Developing Countries on India’s interests
- Explained: Why the US has changed its mind on Nord Stream 2 pipeline, why others object to it The green signal to the Russia-Germany pipeline by Biden has angered Republicans, with Ted Cruz denouncing the agreement as “a generational geopolitical win for Putin and a catastrophe for the United States and our allies.”
GS2: Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.
- Explained: The laws for surveillance in India, and the concerns over privacy (Update over Pegasus) Communication surveillance in India takes place primarily under two laws — the Telegraph Act, 1885 and the Information Technology Act, 2000.
GS3: Environmental degradation
- Analysis by NGO reveals microplastics in Ganga An analysis of the stretches of the river Ganga by Delhi-based environment NGO Toxics Link has revealed pollution by microplastics.
PIB Corner
GS3: Indian Economy
- Union Cabinet approves Production-linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for Specialty Steel Speciality steel has been chosen as the target segment because out of the production of 102 million tonnes steel in India in 2020-21, only18 million tonnes value added steel/speciality steel was produced in the country.
GS3: Agriculture
- Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati (BPKP) Government is implementing Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati (BPKP) as a sub scheme of Paramparagat .rishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) since 2020-21 for the promotion of traditional indigenous practices.
Down To Earth
GS3: Environmental degradation
- Microplastics concentration in Ganga more than any other major world river, finds new study Microplastics are plastics that are less than 5 millimetres in size but are a major source of marine pollution. They are non-degradable plastics that often entered the Ganga through industrial waste or packaging of religious offerings, its research found. The density of population in the three cities also added to the problem because a large chunk of pollutants got directly discharged into the river by people living on the banks.
