[Simplified] Budget-2023 Highlights
Hi, Here you can find all the details of the Budget-2023 and all the terminologies are explained as needed. […]
[Explained]-Ethics Case Study Answer-04 [UPSC 2022]
UPSC 2022 Ethics Case Study and Perfect Solution: Ramesh is State Civil Services Officer who got the opportunity of getting posted to the capital of a border State after rendering 20 years of service. Ramesh’s mother has recently been detected cancer and has been admitted [...]
[Explained]-Ethics Case Study Answer-03 [UPSC 2022]
UPSC 2022 Ethics Case Study and Perfect Solution: The Supreme Court has banned mining in the Aravalli Hills to stop degradation the forest cover and to maintain ecological balance. However, the stone mining to still prevalent in the border district of the affected State with connivance of certain corrupt [...]
[Explained]-Ethics Case Study Answer-02 [UPSC 2022]
UPSC 2022 Ethics Case Study and Perfect Solution: 11. Rakesh was working as a Joint Commissioner in Transport department of a city. As a part of his job profile, among others, he was entrusted with the task of overseeing the control and functioning of City Transport Department. A case [...]
[Explained]-Ethics Case Study Answer-UPSC 2022
UPSC 2022 Ethics Case Study and Perfect Solution:You are appointed as an officer heading the section in Environment Pollution Control Board to ensure compliance and its follow-up. In that region, there were large number of small and medium industries which had been granted clearance. You learnt that these industries provide [...]
[History] 1947: Jammu & Kashmir becomes part of India
On October 26, 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir signed the Instrument of Accession with India, thereby ending the intense angling for that princely state by rival players India and Pakistan. The prelude to it was an intricate maze of bureaucratic jostling, uncertainty, simulation of friendship by vested [...]
[Polity] Supreme Court Ruling on EWS reservation quota
Background A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, in a 3:2 majority decision, upheld the validity of the 103rd Constitutional Amendment, which provides 10% reservation in government jobs and educational institutions to the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) of society but excludes the “poorest of poor” among Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled [...]
[FP & IR] Matera Declaration, India’s G20 presidency and food security
Global and regional food security have been deliberated upon as one of the priority agendas of the G20 for many years now. The situation has worsened with growing conflicts, and spiralling climate crises marked by droughts, floods, cyclones, and economic downturns in the past few years. In this context, India’s [...]
[Society] How is India planning to end child marriage?
Background The steering committee of a global programme to end child marriage is on a visit to India to witness state interventions which have helped reduce the prevalence of child marriage. The visit by the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage team is in view of an estimated increase [...]
[Polity] Uniform Civil Code – In-depth
Background Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, Gujarat on October 29 joined the list of BJP-ruled States that have called for implementing the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). […]