[IR] “Graveyard of Empires”-Afghanistan

2021-08-06T23:41:56+05:30By |Categories: History|Tags: |

Afghanistan is a notoriously difficult country to govern. Empire after empire, nation after nation have failed to pacify what is today the modern territory of Afghanistan, giving the region the nickname “Graveyard of Empires, ” even if sometimes those empires won some initial battles and made inroads into the region. [...]

[Economy] Nuclear Power-10 Years After Fukushima

2021-08-05T09:15:32+05:30By |Categories: Economy|Tags: |

Syllabus Connect:- GS III (Energy) Context:- At the beginning of the new millennium, amid growing awareness of the link between energy-related greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, the notion of a ‘nuclear renaissance’ became popular. Scientists and policy makers identified low carbon nuclear power as a potential protagonist in the [...]

[Society] Providing horizontal quota: the Bihar way

2021-08-04T22:56:57+05:30By |Categories: Society|Tags: |

Syllabus:- GS II ( Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections) The case for reservations for women and transgender persons in State jobs [...]

Poverty in India is on the rise again

2021-08-04T22:41:44+05:30By |Categories: Economy|Tags: |

 Syllabus:- GS I (Poverty and developmental issues); GS II (Issues relating to poverty and hunger)  India has not released its Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) data since 2011-12. Normally a CES is conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSO) every five years. But the CES of 2017-18 (already conducted a [...]

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