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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 […]
Freebies Subject :Polity Context: Freebies debate At present no law prohibit political parties from announcing freebies. Such programmes further the Directive Principles of State Policy under Part IV of the Constitution. Article 36 of the Constitution encourages the state to secure a just social order. Article 39 says that the state shall make […]
Fatalities among U.N. Peacekeeping Forces rising Subject :International Relations UN Peacekeeping Mission: United Nations Peacekeeping is a joint effort between the Department of Peace Operations and the Department of Operational Support. Every peacekeeping mission is authorized by the Security Council. The financial resources of UN Peacekeeping operations are the collective responsibility of UN […]
Gaming Sector Subject: Science and Technology Context: A task force set up by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has prepared a final report of its recommendations to regulate the online gaming industry in India. Key recommendations: It proposed a central-level law for online gaming -for real money and free games of […]
Universal immunization programme Subject : Government Scheme Context– The Union health ministry has directed states and union territories to focus on the universal immunization programme (UIP), which was severely affected during the worst years of the covid pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Concept: The universal immunization programme/Mission Indradhanush The Immunization Programme in India […]