Category: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL & SOCIAL

Context: India, US will discuss a wide array of issues spanning the regional to the bilateral during the first visit by Rex Tillerson to New Delhi as part of his week-long five-nation tour that would also take him to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Switzerland. Introduction: US President Donald Trump surprised India last August with a… Continue reading India-U.S. Partnership-an overview on Tillerson visit

Context: Recently, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Introduction: This year’s Peace prize to ICAN (International campaign to Abolish Weapons) comes at a time when the threat posed by nuclear weapons has been all too evident in the global crisis triggered by North Korea’s… Continue reading ICAN and Nuclear Deterrence

Context The 14th European Union (EU) -India summit completed in New Delhi has given insight about a much clearer political strategic direction. EU Ambassador to India Tomasz Kozlowski also diminished comments by the German Ambassador that it was a failure that EU and India leaders didn’t agree on the resumption of the Free Trade Agreement… Continue reading India and EU promising relationship

Context SoumyaSwaminathan’s elevation to the post of Deputy Director – General for Programmes (DPP) at the World Health Organization (WHO) is a reflection of India’s growing importance in global health diplomacy. What does this mean for the India at the WHO? Recognition as such underlines the fact that India plays a role in global health.… Continue reading India’s growing importance at global health diplomacy

CONTEXT:      In a move towards transparency in the elevation, confirmation and transfer of judges, the Supreme Court has begun to upload the decisions of the collegium, and the reasoning behind them, at the time that its recommendations are forwarded to the government. INTRODUCTION: The collegium, comprising the Chief Justice of India and four senior judges,… Continue reading Transparency and Indian courts

Context India needs to build social infrastructure capable of providing quality education, health, and nutrition to buck the trend. What is the current scenario? According to a recent Indian government committee constituted to estimate poverty, nearly 38% of India’s population (380 million) is poor. 60% of the poor still reside in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand,… Continue reading How well is India dealing with poverty?

Context The apex court had recently highlighted that misuse of IPC Section 498A needs to be addressed by instituting welfare committees to look into cases before action is taken What is the Family Welfare Committee comprised of? The committee shall comprise para-legal volunteers or social workers or retired officers or even the wives of serving… Continue reading Section 498A and its misuse: Explained

Context: Life expectancy in India on the rise, but the quality of health care services is inadequate Introduction: There is a rapid rise in the share of the old age people in India’s population Life expectancy in India has increased by more than 10 years in the past two decades, while globally children born in 2015… Continue reading Increasing old age population of India