Major cities of Ukraine Subject: International Relations Context: New bombing Kyiv: It is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine and seventh most populous in Europe.It lies in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. It is located on the border of the Polesia woodland ecological zone, a part of the European mixed […]
UN Charter Subject :International Relations Context: UN reform is a long drawn process which encompasses five key issues: Categories of membership. Question of the veto held by the five permanent members, Regional representation, The size of an enlarged Council and its working methods. The Security Council-General Assembly relationship. Principles on which United Nation […]
India gets 4th set of Swiss bank account details of its nationals Subject: Economy Context:India has received the fourth set of Swiss bank account details of its nationals and organisations as part of the annual automatic exchange of information(AEOI) Black money in the form of undisclosed foreign income and assets comes under the […]
Mental health in India Subject: Governance Context: On Monday, world observed as World Mental Health Day. Concept: Mental health problems were already a major contributor to the burden of illness in India before the pandemic, with a third of all female and a quarter of all male suicide deaths in the world occurring in this […]
How China Beat Extreme Poverty; And What Lessons It Holds For India Subject: Economy Context– According to the latest World Bank report on global poverty,India has the most number of poor people (5.6 crores). The report found that the number of Indians living in extreme poverty— surviving on less than Rs 46 a […]
What is greenwashing? Subject: Environment Greenwashing refers to “the practice of making products, activities, or policies seem more environmentally friendly or less environmentally damaging than they actually are.” Essentially, it consists of two behaviours – Suppress negative information regarding a product/activity/policy’s environmental performance; Expose positive information about the environmental performance. The term is […]
Graded Response Action Plan or GRAP Subject: Environment Context: According to a recent report, 18 of the 20 cities with the most severe increase in fine particle pollutants called PM 2.5 between 2010 and 2019 were in India. The action plan against Delhi’s air pollution- A rigorous challenge of air pollution in Delhi […]
Nobel Prize in Economics Subject: Economy Context: The Nobel Prize for Economics 2022 has been awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for their role in research related to how banks function. Contribution- Role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises–why we have banks, how to make them less […]
Daily Practice Sheet 11 October 2022 Current Affairs Based GS 1: History Why did Communism survive in China but not in the USSR? GS 2: Polity Over 25 years after the 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments (they mandated the establishment of panchayats and municipalities as elected local governments) Local governments remain hamstrung and […]