Ground Water Extraction Guidelines
Context: In order to comply with various directions of the Hon’ble NGT and to address various shortcomings in the existing guidelines of ground water extraction, the Central Ground Water Authority,…
Global Nutrition Report 2018
Context: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has always maintained that "Hunger is quiet violence", which appears more realistic year by year as India struggles to combat malnutrition. According to the Global…
#MeToo’s importance for women’s jobs
Context: The #MeToo campaign has implications for the much-debated issue of India’s female labour force. India's female labour force participation rate: The country’s female labour force participation rate (LFPR)—the share…
RIMES terms Titli cyclone ‘rarest of rare’
Context: The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) for Africa and Asia, a 45-nation international organisation on disaster warning, has termed ‘Titli’, the severe cyclonic storm that devastated Odisha…
Do not disturb this Andaman island
Context: After 12 years, the Sentinelese have again rejected external contact in the most emphatic way possible. In 2006, two fishermen went harvesting crabs illegally off North Sentinel Island and…
Drought: When, and how, does a state govt declare one?
Context: Large parts of Maharashtra are reeling under drought, aspects of which are being reported in the ‘Dry Wave’ series of this newspaper. While the word ‘drought’ usually brings to…
Water ATMs may help in bridging safe water gap
Context: For thousands of communities across India, the process of getting drinking water is now the same as the process of getting cash: they head to an ATM. Facts: With 82 crore…
A national policy for internal migration
Context: Though migration is expected to enhance consumption and lift families out of absolute poverty at the origin, it is not free from distress — distress due to unemployment or underemployment in…
The legacy of Kepler, retired planet-hunter
NASA’s Kepler space telescope, which has been retired after running out of fuel (The Indian Express, November 1), is being widely described as the most prolific planet-hunting machine in history.…
GLOBAL COMPACT FOR MIGRATION
Background: The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is the world’s first, intergovernmentally negotiated agreement covering all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner. It…
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