News: Sri Lanka is going through an economic crisis. It’s facing issues like long queues in front of petrol stations, steep rise in prices of essential commodities and frequent blackouts. The Sri Lankan economy has been facing both domestic and foreign debt. In addition, Sri Lanka has been facing a trade imbalance crisis since COVID-19… Continue reading Crisis in Sri Lanka
Author: Luv Sharma
The serious public health burden of gender violence
Context: Gender-based violence constitutes one of the serious public health burdens in India. What is gender-based violence? ‘Gender-based violence’ refers to violence that is directed towards an individual owing to their gender and/or sexual orientation. It also includes efforts to bring young boys or LGBTQIA+ individuals into dominant forms of masculinity or femininity. Global and… Continue reading The serious public health burden of gender violence
Fighting TB with lessons learnt during Covid pandemic
News: Recently, World TB Day was organized. Focus on TB has declined due to Covid-19 Pandemic. It’s time we acknowledge the magnitude of the disease, and work harder at offering individuals’ equitable healthcare access and resources that the disease warrants. Why should TB be considered serious? On one side, 1.8 million people succumbed to the… Continue reading Fighting TB with lessons learnt during Covid pandemic
On India’s education and healthcare: Mind, body & growth
News: Ensuring top quality and a proper delivery of public goods like education and healthcare is one area where successive governments have underperformed in India. The article highlights the current situation, reasons for underperformance and measures to address the issues. What is the situation wrt education and healthcare in India? – Education: ASER reported in… Continue reading On India’s education and healthcare: Mind, body & growth
The controversy over the proposed Mekedatu water project
News: Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are heading for a political confrontation over the Mekedatu drinking water project across river Cauvery, proposed by the former. Within days of Tamil Nadu Assembly’s resolution against the project, Karnataka’s legislative assembly is set to counter it with a resolution seeking the project’s early implementation and clearances from the Centre.… Continue reading The controversy over the proposed Mekedatu water project
Buyers’ power: India depends on Russian arms. But Russia depends on Indian arms purchases. That gives Delhi leverage
News: India’s national interest and its international stand on Ukraine are at centre of debate due to the Ukraine-Russia Conflict. Status of the Russian Economy Russia relies hugely on exports of two products, oil and petroleum products and arms products. Oil and Petroleum: Russia’s oil and petroleum products export was 8 million barrels/day. However, The… Continue reading Buyers’ power: India depends on Russian arms. But Russia depends on Indian arms purchases. That gives Delhi leverage
Phasing out coal-based plants: The way forward
Context: The world including India is making plans to decarbonise in context of the looming threat of climate change Challenges in achieving 500GW non-fossil fuel generation capacity by 2030 There are questions on the availability of the sufficient demand in the economy Such a huge capacity of renewable generation needs grid stability. Renewable energy requires… Continue reading Phasing out coal-based plants: The way forward
Global uncertainties, India’s growth prospects
News: On February 28, 2022, the National Statistical Office (NSO) released India’s GDP data for Quarter 3 of 2021-22. The NSO also released Second Advance Estimates (SAE) for Fiscal Year 2021-22. India’s Growth performance As per the estimates, India’s real GDP and GVA growth are estimated to recover to 8.9% and 8.3%, respectively, in 2021-22… Continue reading Global uncertainties, India’s growth prospects
Recycling heat generated by datacentres
News: Microsoft has partnered with Fortum, Finnish energy company to launch the world’s largest scheme to provide heat to homes, services and business in Finland with waste heat. Heat would be sourced from a new data centre region that Microsoft has planned to build in the Helsinki metropolitan area in Finland. How will this work? … Continue reading Recycling heat generated by datacentres
World Water Day: Are we ready for the thirsty future?
News: Notwithstanding, water scarcity and river pollution, we are making things worse for the conservation of the valuable resource. What is Water Scarcity? Water scarcity implies that either sufficient water is not available (because it does not rain, the water table has gone down, or the demands have increased) or water is inaccessible (because it… Continue reading World Water Day: Are we ready for the thirsty future?
