Should India have two time zones?
Context: OVER THE years, various citizens and political leaders have debated whether India should have two separate time zones. The demand is based on the huge difference in daylight times…
A clean environment for human empowerment
Context: Human beings and nature have a very special relationship. Mother Nature has nurtured and nourished us. The first civilisations were established on the banks of rivers. Societies that live…
1 in 5 Indian children ‘wasted’, says GHI
Context: At least one in five Indian children under the age of five are ‘wasted,’ which means they have extremely low weight for their height, reflecting acute under-nutrition, according to…
Role for CMs in river basin management
Context: To resolve differences among States on sharing water from rivers that are common to them, the Union Water Ministry has proposed creating 13 river basin management authorities. The inter-State…
The Swachh Bharat Mission Facts
Context: The Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) recently launched the 150th birth year celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi, as the Mission enters its fifth and final year of implementation. The SBM has…
In Good Faith: Sarvodaya for polarised times
It is an axiom that a nation can forget its great leaders only at its own peril. Indeed, some leaders have a far-reaching influence on the nation in its onward…
Satyagraha then, Swachhagraha now
Context: No one person has had a bigger influence on the shaping of India than Mahatma Gandhi. He was at once a man of action and a visionary. He worked and…
What is the Sabarimala case?
Context: The Supreme Courtruled that women, of all age group, can enter Sabarimala temple in Kerala. The apex court in a 4:1 majority said that the temple practice violates the…
General Studies Paper – 1 UPSC Civil Services Mains Exam – 2018
Safeguarding the Indian art heritage is the need of the moment. Comment (10) Assess the importance of the accounts of the Chinese and Arab travellers in the reconstruction of the…
One manual scavenging death every five days: Official data
Context: SINCE JANUARY 1, 2017, one person has died every five days, on an average, while cleaning sewers and septic tanks across the country, according to numbers collated by the…
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