G20 summit: What’s at stake: Subject: Polity Context: Heads of state and governments belonging to 20 of the world’s major advanced and emerging economies will commence a two-day summit meeting in Bali, Indonesia. What’s on the agenda for the 2022 summit: The Bali summit will have three key priorities: Global Health Architecture: This […]
Forced conversions dangerous, may affect nation’s security Subject: Polity Context: The Supreme Court in its judgement on a petition filed by Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay seeking directions to the Centre and states to take stringent steps to check such conversions said that “forced” religious conversions are “very dangerous” and may “affect the security of […]
2021 Census of India Subject :Polity The 2021 Census of India, also the 16th Indian Census, is intended to be carried out in 2023. In April 2019, a data user conference was held and it was announced that 330,000 enumerators would be enlisted and that they would be encouraged to use their own […]
Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Subject :Polity It will subsume the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), is likely to have extensive penal powers, with the government considering to authorise it to impose fine of up to Rs 5 crore and also proceed against the heads […]
Governor and Chief Minister: The conflict Subject :Polity Issue : recently we have seen the difference of opinion regarding many things between chief minister and the governor leading to sometimes major constitutional crisis. Governor: Article 155. Appointment of Governor: The Governor of a State shall be appointed by the President by warrant under […]
Plugging the defence gap Subject :Polity Srijan Portal- Pursuant to Atmanirbhar Bharat’s announcement, the Department of Defence Production has developed an indigenization portal, srijandefence.gov.in, as ‘opportunities for Make in India’ in Defence, which will give information on items that can be taken up for indigenization by the private sector. On this portal, DPSUs/OFB/SHQs […]
Next door to Delhi, a ‘bank’ to store the country’s digitised biological data Subject :Polity Context- The government has for the first time set up a digitised repository where Indian researchers will store biological data from publicly funded research, reducing their dependency on American and European data banks. About ‘Indian Biological Data Bank’- […]