In News NITI Aayog and the World Food Programme (WFP), India, will launch the ‘Mapping and Exchange of Good Practices’ initiative for mainstreaming millets in Asia and Africa. They will prepare a compendium of good practices for scaling up the production and consumption of millets in India and abroad. About Millet  It is a common […]

In News Recently, the Supreme Court (SC) has asked the national and state child rights bodies to issue guidelines to facilitate Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs) in making the preliminary assessment . About This is to be done for determining whether a child of 16 years of age and above can be tried as an adult […]

In News Recently, the Kerala State Assembly passed a resolution regarding Supreme Court’s directive regarding Ecologically Sensitive Zones (ESZ). The state of Karnataka is also opposing the Centre’s draft eco-sensitive area norms for the Western Ghats. More about the news Kerala: The resolution passed by Kerala urged the Central government to exclude the State’s human […]

In News  Economist and Nobel laureate Michael R Kremer has said that for a diverse country like India Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) must be carried out at multiple sites for better analysis and to see differences across states. More In News  RCT was heavily discussed after Kremer and fellow economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo […]

In Context  According to reports, eleven districts of Bengal have reported at least 65 cases of black fever or kala azar in the last couple of weeks Kala-azar About: It is a slow progressing indigenous disease caused by a protozoan parasite of genus Leishmania. Kala azar or leishmaniases is one of the most dangerous neglected […]

In Context With inflation at unprecedented levels in many countries, concerns over energy security have gained centre stage. Consumption pattern in India Coal is the most important and abundant fossil fuel in India. It accounts for 55% of the country’s energy needs.  The country’s industrial heritage was built upon indigenous coal. The India Energy Outlook […]

The Hindu Subject Pg No Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains   GS 2 1 Presidential election today; Murmu has an edge over Sinha (Polity and Governance) How the President of India is elected?What is the value of each vote and how is it calculated?What is required to secure a victory?   GS 1 5 How […]

Indian Express Subject  Pg No  Headlines Relevance for Prelims and Mains   GS 2   3   Murmu thanks NDA MPs, says tribal community is ‘excited (Polity and Governance) Know about elections process of President of India and constitutional provisions related to it GS 3 3   Commodity prices’ fall can help India escape global inflation […]

In News The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of universities and colleges for the year 2022 was recently released by the Ministry of Education (MoE).  Key Findings Overall Rankings: IIT-Madras topped the overall category for the fourth consecutive year, and in engineering for the seventh straight year.  The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), which topped […]

In News Iran and Belarus are likely to be the two newest additions to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) grouping. And, Varanasi will be declared the “Cultural and Tourism Capital” of SCO. More about the news Iran and Belarus: 2021 SCO summit in Dushanbe agreed for Iran to join.  Belarus has also begun the membership […]