Category: Daily Editorials for UPSC IAS Exam Preparation

Palliative Care in India Click here to Download Daily Editorial PDF (23rd Feb. 2017) Context: It is projected that approximately 20% of Indians will be elderly by 2050, marking a dramatic jump from the current 6% and there is likely to be a shift in the disease patterns from communicable to non-communicable, which itself calls…

Direct Election of City Mayors Click here to Download Daily Editorial PDF (22nd Feb. 2017) Context Civic Elections are going on and around the corner in several states; it is the time when citizens are given the opportunity to hold a magnifying glass over the ruling government bodies. There are multiple cases of civic mismanagement…

Click here to Download Daily Editorial PDF (20 Feb. 2017) Railway Accidents in India  Context Just yesterday, Kalindi Express got derailed at the Tundla Junction adding to the long list of train accidents over the last six months.God forbid there were no casualties or injuries in this incident unlike Kanpur incident or the recent derailment…

Supreme Court has recently given a judgement on the late Jayalalitha’s Disproportionate Assets case and jailed the CM prospect Sasikala for 4 years, which has far reaching implications on TN politics, the judgement was not just about that, at the end in a 570 page judgement Honorable Justice Amitava Roy penned in what he called…

Politicization of Appointments of Governors Context Click here to Download Daily Editorial PDF (17th Feb. 2017) The controversy over the politicization of the Governor post is once again in the news over delayed decision making by the Governor of TN in the appointment of CM. Let us examine detail the debates related to the gubernatorial posts.…

Municipal Bonds in India Click here to Download Daily Editorial PDF (16 Feb. 2017) Context The City of Pune is getting ready to launch the biggest Indian municipal bond issueto raise Rs. 2300 crore which is more than all the other cities cumulatively collected over the past two decades. In this context let us get…

Exit Polls: Latest Conundrum Click here to Download Daily Editorial PDF (15 Feb. 2017) Context The Election Commission on Monday asked for a police case to be initiated against the management of Dainik Jagran, a Hindi newspaper, for publishing results of what appeared to be an exit poll conducted after the first phase of Assembly…

India’s Quest for becoming a Solar Superpower Click here to Download Daily Editorial PDF (13th Feb. 2017)   Context The bids for solar power projects in the country have been decreasing to new lows,providing a clear pointer to the future course of renewable energy. Recently the auctioned price of solar photovoltaic (SPV) power per kilowatt…