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STOCKPILES
STOCKPILES
1. Contemporary context of the article
India’s economic growth has traditionally been hobbled by the three F':forex, food and fuel.
The first two were the bugbears in the 1960s,...
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19-Sep 2022
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT
Source: The Indian Express
Context
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released its latest Human Development Report (HDR).
Key points
It is enough to look at a ...
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19-Sep 2022
COUNTER OFFENSIVE UKRAINE
COUNTEROFFENSIVE UKRAINE
1. Background
President Volodymyr ZelenskyY on Monday said that Ukrainian forces have retaken 6,000 sq km of Russian-held territory since the beginning of September....
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18-Sep 2022
PERIYAR
REMEMBERING PERIYAR ON SOCIAL JUSTICE DAY
1. About
Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), commonly known as Periyar, also referred to as Thanthai Periyar, was an ...
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18-Sep 2022
HATTIS
HATTIS
Source: indianexpress
CONTEXT
The state government’s request for inclusion of the Hatti community in the list of Scheduled Tribes in the state is politically significant, as the Hattis ha...
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17-Sep 2022
EASTERN ECONOMIC FORUM
EASTERN ECONOMIC FORUM
Source: Hindu
CONTEXT
Russia hosted the seventh Eastern Economic Forum at Vladivostok. The forum provided the platform for entrepreneurs to expand their businesses into...
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16-Sep 2022
US-PAK-F16
US-PAK-F16
Source: The Indian Express
Context
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Twitter that he had "conveyed concerns" to his American counterpart on the US decision to provide Pakistan with ...
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16-Sep 2022
TAMIL NADU'S BREAKFAST SCHEME
TAMIL NADU BREAKFAST SCHEME
Source: The Hindu
Context
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin on Thursday, at the Madurai Corporation Primary School Aathimoolam II in Simmakal, Madurai, launched t...
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16-Sep 2022
Future of Old Times
Future of Old Times
Source: The Hindu
Introduction
Life expectancy in India has more than doubled since independence from around 32 years to 70 years.
Over the same period, the fertility rate...
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15-Sep 2022
HEALTH ACCOUNTS
HEALTH ACCOUNTS
Background
The system of health accounts is an international accounting framework for systematically tracking health spending.
Time trends of overall health spending and its comp...
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15-Sep 2022
COASTAL REGULATION ZONE
COASTAL REGULATION ZONE
1.Context
A notice, dated November 11, 2024, had reportedly directed all stakeholders to demolish and clear illegal construction by hotels, resorts and homestays in Ma...
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15-Sep 2022
Water Crisis
WATER CRISIS
Source: The Hindu
Context
Rural-urban water disputes are very likely to occur as scarcity grows, exacerbated by climate change.
Introduction
The UNESCO United Nations World Water D...
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15-Sep 2022
ESSENTIAL MEDICINE LIST
ESSENTIAL MEDICINE LIST
CONTEXT
The national list of Essential Medicines 2022 was released with 384 drugs in its across 27 categories.
while 34 new drugs are on the list,26 drugs from NLEM 2015, in...
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15-Sep 2022
SHADOW LIBRARY
SHADOW LIBRARY
Source: The Hindu
Context
The landing page to Z-Library refused to load and for some flashed a warning banner stating the site had been blocked by a court order.
Key points
Z-Li...
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15-Sep 2022
CRISPR
CRISPR-Cas9
Background
CRISPR-Cas9 is a genome editing tool.
It is faster, cheaper and more accurate than previous techniques of editing DNA and has a wide range of potential applications.
...
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14-Sep 2022