What is the News? A fact-finding team of civil society activists has found serious issues with the Pilot Scheme on Fortification of Rice. About Fortification of Rice Programme Recently, Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval for the supply of fortified rice throughout the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) under the following schemes… Continue reading Fortified rice: Surveyors find that consumers fear traces of ‘plastic rice’
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Drought In Numbers, 2022: Desertification: ‘Droughts reduced India’s GDP by up to 5% in 20 years’
Contents1 What is the News?2 What are the key findings of the report?2.1 Global findings2.2 Report on India3 What are the recommendations given by the report?4 What do the other reports say about India’s drought situation? What is the News? The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD) has released the Drought In Numbers, 2022 Report… Continue reading Drought In Numbers, 2022: Desertification: ‘Droughts reduced India’s GDP by up to 5% in 20 years’
Union Environment Minister delivers the National Statement at the 15th Session of the Conference of Parties of UNCCD
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is the UNCCD Conference of the Parties(COP)?3 What is COP 15?4 What are the key highlights from India’s address at UNCCD COP15? What is the News? The Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change addressed the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United… Continue reading Union Environment Minister delivers the National Statement at the 15th Session of the Conference of Parties of UNCCD
What is tomato flu? Who does it affect?
What is the News? Tamil Nadu has ramped up surveillance at its borders in the wake of “tomato flu” cases being detected in Kerala. What is Tomato Flu? Tomato Flu got its name from the tomato-shaped blisters it causes on the body. Vulnerable Population: The flu is affecting children below the age of five in… Continue reading What is tomato flu? Who does it affect?
Supreme Court puts colonial sedition law on hold
Contents1 What is the News?2 What is Sedition Law?3 What was the issue about?4 What are the directions issued by the Supreme Court on Section 124A?5 What is the significance of this judgment? What is the News? The Supreme Court has suspended pending criminal trials and court proceedings under Section 124A (sedition) of the Indian… Continue reading Supreme Court puts colonial sedition law on hold
The good side of inflation: Accelerating prices make govt debt management easier. Higher food prices mean bigger farmer income
Context: Some positive effects of inflation. How is inflation beneficial in some respects? A higher inflation (consumer price index or wholesale price index) helps in the lowering of the estimated fiscal deficit. The fiscal deficit, is calculated as a percentage of the nominal GDP. The nominal GDP because of the way it is calculated on… Continue reading The good side of inflation: Accelerating prices make govt debt management easier. Higher food prices mean bigger farmer income
Shallow and deep ecologism
News: India continues to face with the unrelenting heatwave. Although, heat waves are known to have been a reality for hundreds of years. But more extreme, frequent and prolonged heat waves in recent has exposed the long-term effects of climate change which have exacerbated them. Concept of Ecologism The concepts emerged in the 1970s,… Continue reading Shallow and deep ecologism
Time to solve a solvable encroachment problem
News: Recently, illegal structures on public land in National Capital Regional of Delhi were razed using bulldozers. This has brought into forefront the major issues of encroachment in the urban areas. What are the major issues in urban areas? Traffic The urban spaces are plagued with the problem of vehicular saturation. There is scarcity of… Continue reading Time to solve a solvable encroachment problem
The good cop
Context: There have been the National Police Commission, the Ribeiro and Padmanabhaiah committees, and other commissions which directly alluded to police reforms. In addition, the Malimath Committee and the Second Administrative Reforms Commission indirectly expressed requirements for police reforms. The Supreme Court acknowledged the requirement of police reforms in Prakash Singh judgment of 2006. Contents1… Continue reading The good cop
Heading for GSTExit
News: Recently, Britain witnessed Brexit because loss of some sovereign freedom in return of the economic gains of a common European market was capitalised. India may also see the “GSTExit” if the trust and faith between the centre and the state is not revived in the Union-states relationship. Importance of GST The GST untangled disparate… Continue reading Heading for GSTExit
