Current Affairs
Editorial-3: The road to ending tuberculosis[G.S. Mains Paper-3 Health]
The world got a wakeup call in 1993 about tuberculosis (TB) when the World Health Organization declared it a global health emergency. The 1993 World Development Report labelled TB treatment for adults as the best buy among all developmental interventions. The response in the 30 years since has been short on urgency and long on processes. The... .Read more
Updated on 23 March, 2023 Security Society International Relations Current Affairs Health and Family wellfare
Centre is not committed to Naga peace talks: NSCN (I-M)
New Delhi’s fluctuating commitment to the “IndoNaga political issue” has made the Framework Agreement hang in balance, the Isak Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland [NSCN (IM)] has said. The NSCN (IM) calls itself the National Socialist Council of Nagalim. The Framework Agreement was signed be... .Read more
Updated on 23 March, 2023 GS3 Security Governance Current Affairs
Getting it right: a historian’s effort to document the life of Bhagat Singh
India has been slow to appreciate the genius of Bhagat Singh. Often clubbed with Sukhdev and Rajguru and the three revolutionaries’ hanging on March 23, 1931, Bhagat Singh, the man who wanted to “sow guns” as a child, deserves better. Bhagat Singh Born as Bhaganwala on the 26th September 1907. He belonged to a generation th... .Read more
Updated on 23 March, 2023 GS1 Security Current Affairs Modern Indian History
SC agrees to constitute Special Bench to hear Bilkis Bano’s petition
Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on Wednesday told Bilkis Bano that a Special Bench would be formed to hear her petition, challenging the release of 11 men sentenced to life imprisonment for her gang rape during the 2002 riots. Why in the news? The 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case of the 2002 riots walked out of jail as the Gujarat g... .Read more
Updated on 23 March, 2023 GS2 Polity Governance Social issues & Justice Current Affairs
Editorial-3: A grave mistake in Great Nicobar[G.S. Mains Paper-3 Environment & Conservation]
In unprecedented haste, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has cleared the decks for a mega project at the cost of about ₹70,000 crore at the southern tip of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. NITI Aayog is piloting the project and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation is the project pr... .Read more
Updated on 22 March, 2023 Infrastructure Economy Environment Geography Current Affairs
Editorial-2: Tightrope walk [G.S. Mains Paper-2 IR]
Since 2006, the Prime Ministers of India and Japan have exchanged visits for their “annual summit”, a meeting that has steered the course of this bilateral relationship. However, it was not the India Japan Special Strategic and Global Partnership that was at the heart of athe Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s mission during hi... .Read more
Updated on 22 March, 2023 International Relations Economy Current Affairs
