Friday Factly
GS 1 Geography At least 100 million hectares of healthy & productive land were degraded every year between 2015 & 2019, the UN body pointed out. This added up to 420 million hectares (4.2 million square km) slightly over the combined area of 5 Central Asian Nations: – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan & […]
GS1 Geography India completely depends on imports for its lithium requirements. Its only official find so far is to the tune of 5.9 million tones in J&K & currently price determination for auctions are being carried out by the Ministry of Mines. A report by the International Energy Agency earlier this year noted […]
ESSAY IMF Deputy MD: – India is a relative bright spot in the world economy today, growing at rates significantly above its peer average GS-1 SOCIETY Gender Gap According to the World Bank, the gender gap in labour force participation has been narrowing globally, including in India. However, this is primarily because of […]
GS 1 Society Urbanization According to the Ministry, 34% of India’s population lives in cities. In 2021, it was 49.17 crore. 50% of the country’s population living in inadequate housing. Population: India has the largest adolescent population in the world, 253 million, and every fifth person is between 10 to 19 years. Child […]
GS 1 According to the U.S. Geological Survey, while identified lithium resources worldwide stood at 89 million tonnes at the start of 2022, the reserves or mineable parts of the resources stood at 22 million tonnes. Half of the world’s lithium resources are concentrated in Latin America (mostly Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina), Australia, and […]
ESSAY Quotes for Farmer’s Day 2022 “If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right in the country”—S. Swaminathan “I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world”—George Washington “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”—Franklin D. Roosevelt “The farmer is the only man […]
ESSAYS On highway to climate hell, humanity has a choice – cooperate or perish Freedom gave us hope; independence gave us courage; democracy gave us rights and responsibilities; and nation-building defined our charter. Upcoming decade is going to be a ‘Techade’: FM Mission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment), launched on October 20 in the […]
ESSAY Swami Vivekanand said, “Give me 100 energetic youth and I will change India”. It is time to give wings to the aspirations of our youth by moving from policy to action. Education institutes at all levels, public and private, need to recognise this concept of sewa leadership and incorporate it in their […]
ESSAY In 1965, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri gave a well-known slogan “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan” to highlight the role of soldiers and farmers at a time when India faced the twin threats of food shortage and external incursion. Then, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee added “Jai Vigyan” at the time of the […]
ESSAY Environment Another facile argument used by policymakers is that environment and ecological security are a luxury and cannot be prioritized ahead of human development. This argument is not only dated but dangerous. It starts with the deadly assumption that humans are separate from the environment. That, actually, is the root of the […]