Category: Featured Editorials

Context: The recent incident of a Bombay High court Judge sitting past midnight to clear backlog of cases highlights the issues plaguing the Indian judiciary. Fast Facts: Indian Judiciary Judge-population ratio: 12 judge per million as against 110 per million in U.S.A., 60 per million in Australia, and 170 per million in China. Uttar Pradesh,… Continue reading An Analysis of Issues Affecting Indian Judiciary

Context: The Terms of References (ToR) of the 15th Finance Commission has raised considerable criticism Finance Commission: The Finance Commission is appointed every five years by the President of India under Article 280 of the constitution. Functions of the Finance Commission: It is required to make recommendations to the President of India on the following… Continue reading Terms of References of 15th Finance Commission: A Critical Appraisal

Context: The 2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects, released by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs,  projects India’s urban population to rise to 52.8% in 2050. Major Highlights of the Report: Future increases in the size of the world’s urban population are expected to be highly concentrated in few countries:Together, India, China and Nigeria… Continue reading Urbanization in India: An Analysis

Context: Swaraj Abhiyan has filed a Public Interest Litigation in Supreme Court concerning the violation of various provisions of the MGREGA. What is MGNREGA? The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is a employment guarantee act It was introduced in 2005 through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005. In 2010, NREGA renamed… Continue reading Critical Analysis of MGNREGA

Context: A report by McKinsey Global Institute states that India has a huge potential to create jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities for women in the growing market of Renewable Energy. The Scope: The government of India has committed to install 175 GW of Renewable Energy by 2022. Several of these installations will be in rural areas,… Continue reading Creating jobs for women: Renewable energy sector

Context Recently Ministry of Culture had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Dalmia Bharat group for the restoration of Delhi’s Red Fort under ‘Adopt a Heritage’ scheme   What is Adopt a Heritage Scheme? The ‘Adopt a Heritage: Apni Dharohar, Apni Pehchaan’ scheme is key initiative of the Ministry of Tourism, in collaboration with… Continue reading Adopt a heritage: An overview

Context Centre government has announced that the country has achieved 100% of village electrification. Then and Now At the time of India’s Independence only 0.5% of India’s villages were electrified. It is contrary to most developed country which completed their electrification in 1950s. In Constituent Assembly debate K. Santhanam, a member of the Constituent Assembly,… Continue reading 100 % village electrification – A critical analysis

Context On 11th may India marked 20 years of the Pokhran-II Nuclear test. Background On 11th May 1998 India conducted a series of nuclear bomb test explosion at Pokhran, Rajasthan which was popularly known as Pokhran II. Pokhran-II was India’s second nuclear test popularly known as Operation Shakti. ( Watch upcoming John’s Movie – PARMANU)… Continue reading India nuclear regime after Pokhran-II Nuclear test

Context: President Donald Trump has announced that the US will withdraw from the nuclear deal and reimpose the sanctions against Iran. The Timeline of Iran Nuclear Deal: 1967- Iran received technical assistance for nuclear technology under the US Atoms for Peace Programme 1979– Assistance ended with Iranian Revolution ( Islamic revolution which over threw Pahlavi… Continue reading US withdrawal from Iran-Nuclear Deal