Context: India had set a target to eliminate Measles and Rubella (MR) by 2023, having missed the earlier deadline of 2020, due to a variety of reason… Continue Reading

Context: According to the United Nations (UN) World Social Report 2023: Leaving no one behind in an ageing world, the number of persons aged 65 years… Continue Reading

Context: Recently, the Human Rights Watch in its World Report 2023 (33rd edition) said that Indian authorities had “intensified and broadened” th… Continue Reading

Context: Recently, two global reports on child mortality (Levels and Trends in Child Mortality) and stillbirths (Never Forgotten) were released by Un… Continue Reading

Context: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has asked all States to ensure strict implementation of the sexual harassment at workplace law. Rel… Continue Reading

Context: Recently, Karnataka has categorized the two dominant communities, Vokkaligas and Lingayats, as “moderately backward” from the “backwar… Continue Reading

Context: The Parliamentary panel on Social Justice and Empowerment has asked the government to expedite categorisation of Denotified, Nomadic and Sem… Continue Reading

Context: Recently, the Social Progress Index (SPI) for States and Districts of India was released by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minis… Continue Reading

Context: It is estimated that around April 2023, India’s 1.43 billion people will exceed China’s population. In 2022, China will for the first t… Continue Reading

Context: Recently, a girl was attacked with an acid-like substance in Delhi by three assailants. The incident has brought back to focus the heinous c… Continue Reading

Context: Recently, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJ&E) told Lok Sabha that no person had died from Manual Scavenging in the last … Continue Reading

Context: Recently, the Indian President has raised the issue of the plight of a large number of undertrials holed up in the prisons. Relevance: GS2… Continue Reading

Context: Recently, the Supreme Court asked the government to respond to a plea filed by the National Commission for Women (NCW) to raise the minimum … Continue Reading

Context: Recently, the Jama Masjid in Delhi prohibited the entry of single women or women in groups inside the mosque premises and withdrew after the… Continue Reading

Context: The data presented by the Registrar General of India (RGI) presents a gain in momentum of the pace of decline in India’s maternal and infa… Continue Reading

Context: Recently, the Ministry of Urban Development launches the “Nai Chetna-Pahal Badlav Ki”- A Community-led National Campaign Against Gender-… Continue Reading

Context: Recently, the Supreme Court has issued notice to the Centre and the Attorney General for India on a plea by two gay couples seeking recognit… Continue Reading

Demand for Restoring the Old Pension Scheme-The Hindu-07-11-2022 GS-1 SOVIAL ISSUE : Context :- Many states are demanding to restore the Old Pe… Continue Reading

GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE : CONTEXT: Disparity among States in facilities for eye donation. Prelim and Mains : Eye donation :- In most cases, loss of sig… Continue Reading

GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE CONTEXT: Tamil Nadu Minister for Social Welfare Geetha Jeevan on Friday ordered the closure and sealing of a private children’s … Continue Reading

GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE CONTEXY : The Supreme Court did not entertain a plea advocating a link between watching Internet porn and sex crimes, includi… Continue Reading

Marriage Act and Provision-The Hindu-06-09-2022 GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE CONTEXT : Background : Marriage Act and Provision : A marriage which has alr… Continue Reading

Special maternity leave in case of infant death GS-1 WOMEN EMPOWERMENT CONTEXT : Central government has decided to grant a 60 days special matern… Continue Reading

Malnourishment-The Hindu-29-08-2022 GS-1 SOCIAL ISSUE : CONTEXT: Modi urges people to join the fight against malnourishment. MAINS: Malnouris… Continue Reading

GS-1 Society & Governance: CONTEXT: Maharashtra to get the first Divyang park in Nagpur. Prelim : Divyang Park will have different kinds of facil… Continue Reading

GS-2 GOVERNANCE MAINS : What is the Bilkis Bano case? Gujarat had turned violent after the Sabarmati train was burnt in Godhra on 27 February … Continue Reading

GS-1 SOCIETY CONTEXT : More will migration and interaction will lead to acculturation. PRELIM: (NOTE:-From a prelim point of view, you need t… Continue Reading

GS-3 ENVIRONMENT CONTEXT : Health Department personnel carrying out thermal screening amid the tomato flu scare. What is tomato flu? Tomato… Continue Reading

GS-1 Social Issue : CONTEXT : An accident at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya killed one person and left another battling for his life. IN DE… Continue Reading

GS-3 Context : Amul and Mother Dairy have raised their prices of milk, and several other dairy companies across the country India bein… Continue Reading

GS-1 Geography Context: India has taken rapid strides in reducing child mortality since 2014 from 45 per 1,000 live births to 35 per 1,000 liv… Continue Reading

GS-1 Context : Ministry draws a distinction between sewer cleaning and manual scavenging. What is Manual Scavenger? Manual scavenging is a… Continue Reading

GS-2 CONTEXT: The apex court may loosen the grip of an abortion law that bars unmarried women from terminating pregnancies up to 24 weeks. MAIN… Continue Reading

GS-ll Context : India has achieved replacement level fertility, with 31 States and Union Territories reaching a Total Fertility Rate (an average numb… Continue Reading

The Delhi High Court has permitted minor rape victims to terminate their 26weeks pregnancy, saying the mental and physical trauma they would have to u… Continue Reading

Bailable vs Non-Bailable Bail is governed by provisions in the CrPC. Offenses are categorized as bailable and non-bailable. Under Section 436, bail i… Continue Reading

Arogya Sanjeevani is a standardised health insurance policy designed by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority. Every general insurance o… Continue Reading

Witch-hunting: Witch-hunting involves the branding of victims, especially women as witches, where they are accused of possessing supernatural power… Continue Reading

The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPWD) Act, 2016 was passed by the Indian Parliament to fulfill its obligation to the United Nations Conventio… Continue Reading

The Centre has opposed before the Delhi High Court, a petition seeking recognition of same-sex marriages. Details: The Centre argued that the In… Continue Reading

The Budget Speech of 2020 proposed the setting up of a task force to look into the issue of age of a girl entering motherhood to help lower maternal m… Continue Reading

Gs2- Education- New educational policy-Issue of autonomy in NEP Arguments in favour of the provision: The concerns of over-centralisation, leadi… Continue Reading

NEWS: The Foundation for Reproductive Health Services India (FRHSI) indicated a severe shortage of medical abortion (MA) drugs in five out of the s… Continue Reading

Context: Details: *The University Grants Commission’s guidelines of July 6, 2020 on conducting final-year examinations for university students… Continue Reading

Context:Record 53.6 mt of E-waste Dumped Globally in 2019; China Tops: UN Global E-waste Monitor 2020 Report. Details: *In accordance with “Th… Continue Reading

Context:Record 53.6 mt of E-waste Dumped Globally in 2019; China Tops: UN Global E-waste Monitor 2020 Report. Details: *In accordance with “Th… Continue Reading

Context:The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has granted approval to Bharat Biotech to conduct human clinical trials for ‘Covaxin… Continue Reading

Context: The UNFPA has released State of the World Population 2020 report. Details: *The Preference for sons and gender-biased sex selection ha… Continue Reading

Context:Dexamethasone is the first drug to be shown to improve survival in COVID-19. Details: *Based on these results, one death would be preven… Continue Reading

Context: A model based on social distancing only ends up weakening the concept of a classroom being an essential laboratory. Details: *What we h… Continue Reading

Details: Here, we propose certain policy options to leverage private sector resources for testing, hospitalisation, procurement of biomedical equip… Continue Reading

Details: The Pangong Tso lake in Leh district of Ladakh, where large numbers of Chinese troops have moved in. Indian and Chinese officers meet at M… Continue Reading

Details: Medicines are among humanity’s greatest achievements. They have helped attain dramatic improvements in health and longevity as well as h… Continue Reading

Details: Evolutionary similarities: “Epidemiological assessments suggest that the common ancestor emerged in the month of February 2020 and po… Continue Reading

Details: on Saturday, the State’s COVID-19 positive count touched 239 with the addition of 70 infected persons to Friday’s figure. “We are fa… Continue Reading

Details: Poonawalla, whose family owns the vaccine maker, said scientists, drugmakers and manufacturers were collaborating at an unparalleled scale… Continue Reading

Details: IndiGo, the largest airline in the country, which will operate 450 airlines to begin with, requires passengers to “download the Aarogya … Continue Reading

Details: If implemented, they will not only weaken the control of States over an industry supplying a basic human necessity such as electricity but… Continue Reading

Details: A recent medical technique, known as less invasive surfactant administration , has been started at J. Lon Government Children’s Hospital… Continue Reading

Details: Our bowlers have done well to limit the COVID-19 score and flatten the curve. Putting aside threats to personal safety, family interests, … Continue Reading

Details: Called the ‘Special Long Term Transition Loan to Discoms for COVID-19', the financial assistance is meant to help the Discoms clear thei… Continue Reading

Details: Ryan said the concept of herd immunity is generally used for calculating how many people will need to be vaccinated in a population in ord… Continue Reading

Details: India is among 88 countries that are likely to miss global nutrition targets by 2025, according to the Global Nutrition Report 2020 releas… Continue Reading

Details: CM announces compensation of Rs.1 crore for families of deceased. Eleven people, including a six-year-old girl, died and over 350 were adm… Continue Reading

Details: “While academic engagement through e-resources during the period of lockdown is unexceptionable, any attempt to formalise it as online t… Continue Reading

Details: Emergency services across Europe have seen a sharp rise in domestic abuse calls under sweeping lockdowns imposed across the continent, the… Continue Reading

Details: Donald Trump has said the COVID-19 pandemic is a worse “attack” on the U.S. The President has ramped up his rhetoric against Beijing i… Continue Reading

Details: If in April there were early signs of Kerala gaining an upper hand over the virus, its control became clear from the fourth week of April.… Continue Reading

Details: In a recent press briefing, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported noticeable trends with respect to COVID-19 cases in India. … Continue Reading

Details: The government’s Aarogya Setu app to track COVID-19 cases was not accessible to persons with disabilities , particularly those with hear… Continue Reading

Details: The threat of emerging infectious diseases to global health and the economy, trade, and tourism has never abated. Pandemics can spread rap… Continue Reading

Details: In a letter published in The Lancet on April 30, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros A Ghebreyesus and others highlight a fe… Continue Reading

Details: The exigency: There was a great deal of anxiety, particularly about the graduating batches of students, lest the ongoing session should… Continue Reading

Details: South Asia could face a further public health crisis as children miss routine vaccinations, the UN warned on Tuesday, spurring fears that … Continue Reading

Details: A Delhi-based rights body has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention in ensuring food for the Chakma and Hajong communities … Continue Reading

Details: Claims were made of the virus being manufactured in laboratories and then shipped to nations to let loose on their populations. In a paper… Continue Reading

Details: Since the first case of novel coronavirus infection in India was reported in end-January, many healthcare workers have been subjected to a… Continue Reading

Deatils: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had in a recent advisory cautioned against the spraying of disinfectant on people as part … Continue Reading

Details: The microscopic SARS-CoV-2, by causing a global pandemic, has forced much of humanity to cease everyday practices and jump-start new ones.… Continue Reading

Details: “If any of these sets of people had a prior illness, then their condition is likely to worsen because of stress, or due to medicines a… Continue Reading

Details: Besides addressing the immediate distress conditions of migrants, the state needs to think of long-term solutions. Seasonal migration i… Continue Reading

Details: Sepsivac, a drug jointly developed by the Ahmedabad-based Cadilla Pharmaceuticals and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ,… Continue Reading

Details: While it has become anachronistic, the need for legal safeguards and welfare measures for migrants has become even more pressing and urgen… Continue Reading

Details: While catastrophes affect people at large, the economical, sociological and psychological impact that each catastrophe has on women is pro… Continue Reading

Detail: The Delhi High Court has directed the Centre and the city government to hold top-level meeting to deliberate on measures to curb domestic v… Continue Reading

Details: Over the initial phase of the national lockdown , India reported a 20-fold increase in confirmed SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 cases , and a 36-fold… Continue Reading

Details: This group had caused outbreak of SARS in 2002 and MERS in 2009. It is less lethal than SARS but significantly higher than influenza virus… Continue Reading

Details: “All governments in South Asia have responded rapidly to the crisis, but their task is daunting. Governments have imposed social-distanc… Continue Reading

Details: Around eight million people in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries constitute a unique cohort among Indian diaspora communities around … Continue Reading

Details: The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday said it had started pool testing COVID-19 samples in the State. Meanwhile, the number of deaths d… Continue Reading

Details: Kejriwal said that the results of these trials would be out in three-four days from now and hoped that the technique would work and that l… Continue Reading

Details: Adverse effects: “The use of these tunnels may give a false sense of security and may have adverse health effects as sodium hypochlor… Continue Reading

details: Delhi has been given the go-ahead to use plasma enrichment technique on a trial basis to save the lives of critical COVID-19 patients, Lie… Continue Reading

Details: India is facing the worst public health crisis in its independent history which pales the earlier ones such as AIDS, SARS and H1N1 into in… Continue Reading

Details: United Nations has warned that around 117 million children worldwide face measles risk because countries are using their vaccine resources… Continue Reading

Details: Online child pornography traffic after the lockdown in the country has gone up by 95% with online data monitoring websites showing an incr… Continue Reading

Details: Now, at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations recognises domestic violence against women as a “shadow pandemic”. The C… Continue Reading

Details: People with disability have special issues in a situation like the spread of the novel coronavirus . People with disability are a diverse … Continue Reading

Details: Following COVID-19 lockdown, the Bihar Education Project Council has launched a mobile application and plans to book a slot with the All I… Continue Reading

Details: With the available evidence, it was believed that physical distancing was the best weapon to combat this little-known virus, transmitted t… Continue Reading

Details: A cascade of viral particles enters the body through the nose, eyes or mouth. Breathing carries some of these particles to the lower respi… Continue Reading

Details: Lockdowns alone can’t be effective unless combined with other health measures, says the WHO Chief Scientist. We first got the viral sequ… Continue Reading

Details: India has to chart its own strategy, whether it is in planning a staged release from the lockdown or in developing domestic capacity for m… Continue Reading

Details: Ensure resumption of units, urges Department of Pharmaceuticals. A countrywide shortage of medicines and medical devices is likely in the … Continue Reading

Details: The government’s move won it many expressions of gratitude from countries that received clearances for their medical supplies, which had… Continue Reading

Details: The complaint highlighted the issue of mentally ill persons dependent for food and shelter on charities, temples and gurdwaras. The Nat… Continue Reading

Details: Irrespective of whether India bowed to U.S The decision to reverse the ban was made public hours after U.S President Donald Trump warned o… Continue Reading

Details: The proposal submitted to the Indian Council of Medical Research says that the Transfusion Medicine Department of the Sree Chitra Tirunal … Continue Reading

Details: Its responsibility is to monitor threats to public health and inform and advise the member states. The fight against COVID-19 has to be on… Continue Reading

Details: In the first week of the lockdown, one of the 257 complaint calls that the National Commission for Women received was from a father in Raj… Continue Reading

Details: Our life after the pandemic will be defined by at least 10 questions on the prevailing organising principles of humankind. That an agei… Continue Reading

Details: Given that this is harvest season, cessation of activity due to labour issues can trigger food deficits and high prices. Reducing the risk… Continue Reading

Details: The Government of India announced on Tuesday that it had rescinded its earlier ban on the export of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine , whic… Continue Reading

Details: The UN Women has urged member-States to include prevention of violence against women in their action plans on COVID-19 and consider shelte… Continue Reading

Details: On the other, farmers face a stalemate as they are unable to work on their land, earn remunerative prices and gain access to markets. F… Continue Reading

Details: Antibiotic resistance: Animal agriculture is moving away from backyard operations to larger industrial facilities which aim to produce … Continue Reading

Details: Now, more than 50 crore Ayushman beneficiaries can avail free testing and treatment in designated private hospitals across India The Ce… Continue Reading

Details: High engagement: “There has been talk of a German anomaly,” said Hendrik Streeck, director of the Institute of Virology at the Univ… Continue Reading

Details: Explaining about who to test and the scale of testing the Health Ministry has said that testing has to be focused and judiciously done, ev… Continue Reading

Details: Adequate arrangements and protocols in place to handle variation in demand, the Power Ministry says. No harm is likely to India’s pow… Continue Reading

Details: India’s official position is that there is no evidence of community transmission in the country. According to Lav Agrawal, spokesperson,… Continue Reading

Details: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for switching off electric lights at homes across the nation for nine minutes at 9 p. on April 5, as… Continue Reading

Details: Tribals stitch leaves, collected from forests, to make plates in Odisha’s Rayagada district. Lakhs of tribals in Odisha, who have pinned… Continue Reading

Details: Supreme Court, in an en banc sitting led by Chief Justice John Marshall, affirmed the powers of the state to enact quarantine laws and imp… Continue Reading

Details: Migrants walk to their villages after the announcement of the nation-wide lockdown near the Delhi-U. India’s impoverished millions are l… Continue Reading

Details: The Health Ministry has noted that no specific antiviral have been proven to be effective as per currently available data. Health Ministry… Continue Reading

Details: This is compounded by the large amount of fake news and false information being generated today. Some groups face the additional element t… Continue Reading

Details : It has been nearly a week since the Centre’s lockdown measures to slow down the spread of SARS-CoV-2 came into force. But what was done… Continue Reading

Details: State-to-State coordination: To what extent India’s ongoing efforts to control COVID-19 using physical distancing and isolation will … Continue Reading

Details: File photo of Nivaquine, tablets containing chloroquine, a commonly used malaria drug that has shown signs of effectiveness against corona… Continue Reading

Details: Pune-based MyLab is the first indigenous manufacturer to be approved for deploying its kits for COVID-19 testing. “Congratulations to ou… Continue Reading

Details: The use of hydroxyl chloroquine as prophylaxis for high risk population faced with the SARS-CoV-2 infection was recommended by the Indian … Continue Reading

Details: You have to remember that India started proactive action from January 17 onwards, whereas our first cases came in the end of January. The … Continue Reading

Details: Its top-down approach may be difficult to replicate: While some experts caution against accepting Beijing’s figures at face value, WH… Continue Reading

Details: Its top-down approach may be difficult to replicate: While some experts caution against accepting Beijing’s figures at face value, WH… Continue Reading

Details: On March 20, Italy reported 5,900-odd fresh cases and 627 deaths, the highest daily tally of mortality reported from anywhere in the world… Continue Reading

Details: Unprecedented restrictions were imposed in 80 districts across 17 States and five Union Territories affected by the pandemic. The Union He… Continue Reading

Details: State government has released an amount of Rs.116.25 crore from the State Disaster Response Fund to pay for measures to control spread of … Continue Reading

Details: The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a bill that will accord the Jamnagar-based Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda the status of �… Continue Reading

Details: Denying permanent commission to women officers who have served the nation would result in a serious miscarriage of justice, it said. The S… Continue Reading

Details: The “special categories of women” include rape survivors, victims of incest, the differently abled and minors, Health Minister Harsh V… Continue Reading

Details: Health-care resources, limited to begin with, are even more so when under stress. At a time when the disease did not have a name, and much… Continue Reading

Details: You have to remember that India started proactive action from January 17 onwards, whereas our first cases came in the end of January. The … Continue Reading

Details: Population density: While she maintained that there had been no case of COVID-19 infections in the State, she underlined that West Beng… Continue Reading

Details: A diverse set of industries has been impacted by the spread of the virus. With daily news reports painting a dismal picture of supply chai… Continue Reading

Details: How does washing with soap help get rid of the coronavirus? Washing with water without using soap helps reduce the amount of microbes b… Continue Reading

Details: As India goes into emergency mode to tackle the potentially catastrophic impacts of the novel coronavirus , the ‘Kerala model’ is bein… Continue Reading

Details: In the recent subject-wise ranking of world universities by Quacquarelli Symonds , Indian institutions improved with 26 departments or sch… Continue Reading

Details: Special squads: Special squads had been formed to cull birds within a certain distance around the affected areas. He said the State was… Continue Reading

Details: Their lifespan is approximately 26 years less than the average Indian’s life expectancy. Despite the village’s proximity to several pu… Continue Reading

Details: Sex-selective abortion is the practice of ending a pregnancy based upon the predicted sex of the infant. It is a problem in India where t… Continue Reading

Details: It says 36% of respondents from media houses say they have experienced sexual harassment Over 70% of respondents who had approached an … Continue Reading

Patterns of disability: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) “Disabilities is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limita… Continue Reading

Details: The Government has made amendments in the export policy and restricted export of specified APIs (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) and fo… Continue Reading

Details: The World Health Organization has increased the assessment of the risk of spread and risk of the impact of the coronavirus from “high”… Continue Reading

Details: A few days ago, we learnt that 12 children died in Udhampur district of Jammu due to poisoned cough syrup . This is the fourth mass glycol… Continue Reading

Details: Though the number of confirmed cases in Wuhan and other parts of mainland China has come down of late, the spread of the novel coronavirus… Continue Reading

MP(Madhya Pradesh) tops the list for outgoing patients at a number of at least 11,765. According to the analysis carried out by the National Health… Continue Reading

The Supreme Court upheld the validity of applying the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to under-graduate courses under the … Continue Reading

Details: 1. The Bill, called the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Regulation Bill, 2020, intends to regulate ART clinics with the objecti… Continue Reading

Context: A study on school students has revealed that one in every three adolescents exposed to the Internet are victims of cyberbullying and other… Continue Reading

Analyzing the performance of the Ayushman Bharat scheme. The Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), or the national health prot… Continue Reading

News: In its daily update, Hubei's health commission also confirmed another 1,638 new cases in the central province, where the outbreak emerged in … Continue Reading

News: The title of the third chapter of my China memoir, Smoke and Mirrors, was ‘Coronavirus’. This was not an act of precognition, but merely … Continue Reading

Cleaning of drains & septic tanks claims 110 lives in 2019 What’s in News? The number of people who died while cleaning sewers and septic tank… Continue Reading

News: After being directed by the Madras High Court to consider the issue of providing medical care to those suffering from the rare Lysosomal Stor… Continue Reading

News: The United States has one of the most prodigal health systems, but this does not help the U.Z.Z.Z.S. health care has seen numerous elaborate … Continue Reading

News: The report titled “UNCOMPENSATE VICTIMS”, released by Sanjog, a technical resource organization that works to combat trafficking and gend… Continue Reading

Research has shown that some of the 2,000-plus firefly species face extinction threats. The major hazards include habitat loss and excessive use of… Continue Reading

What is the quality of water globally? Countries with a high development index tend to have good quality tap water. Finland, Denmark, Switzerlan… Continue Reading

Context: Rajya Sabha proceedings. Details: The Sexual Badgering of Ladies at Working environment (Avoidance, Disallowance and Redressal) 2013… Continue Reading

Context: • The NITI Aayog has come out with draft norms to link existing private medical colleges with district hospitals through viability ga… Continue Reading

Mains Paper 2: Health Prelims level : Classical Swine Fever Mains level : Preventive measures of Classical Swine Fever Department of Agricu… Continue Reading

News: World Cancer Day is organized by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and celebrated each year on 4 February. It aims to r… Continue Reading

Mains Paper 2: National Prelims level : NCRB Mains level :Highlights of the missing women report • The highest number of women and childre… Continue Reading

News: • The Golden Jubilee edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) began in Panaji, Goa. Actors Amitabh Bachchan and Rajinikan… Continue Reading

News: • Union environment Minister was heckled by protesters for giving a go-ahead to Karnataka for the Kalasa Banduri project, which aims to pro… Continue Reading

News: • The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday declared the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as a Public Health Emergency of International … Continue Reading

Double Burden of Malnutrition challenges Introduction: • The inter-linkage between health and nutrition has been recognized since ages. Good … Continue Reading

News: The Union Minister of Development of NER (North Eastern Region), reviewed the preparations of Madhavpur Mela in Gujarat. It is to be org… Continue Reading

News: The World Health Organization recently increased the spreading risk of Corona Virus from medium to high. With the virus spreading to differen… Continue Reading

News: Every year January 30 is to be marked as World Neglected Tropical Diseases day. The day creates awareness in addressing the tropical diseases… Continue Reading

• In its review petition with reference to its 2018 Sabarimala verdict, SC had concluded that its 2018 judgment lifting age restrictions on the entr… Continue Reading

What is NSA? The National Security Act of 1980 is an act of the Indian Parliament promulgated on 23 September, 1980 whose purpose is "to provide fo… Continue Reading

• The magnificent tableau of the Ministry of Jal Shakti, highlighting the Government’s new initiative ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ which aims at provi… Continue Reading

News: • The Adhoc Committee of the Rajya instituted by Chairman Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has made 40 far reaching recommendations to prevent sexual… Continue Reading

Ground realities A State Bank of India Research report of March 2019 showed that U.P. had not bettered its human development index over the last 27… Continue Reading

• For the year 2020, Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre, Uttarakhand (in the institution category) and Shri Kumar Munnan Singh (Individual ca… Continue Reading

• India slipped 10 places to 51st position in the 2019 Democracy Index’s global ranking, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit, which cited… Continue Reading

• Amnesty International India released a report titled “Troll Patrol India: Exposing Online Abuse Faced by Women Politicians in India”. Key … Continue Reading

Context: India – the world’s biggest democracy has slipped 10 places in the 2019 Democracy Index to 51st place. The report, “A year of democ… Continue Reading

• The 12th National Tribal Youth Exchange Programme was inaugurated in Puducherry under which tribal youths will be visiting many places to know abo… Continue Reading

• Annual Statistics, published by Project 39A at the National Law University (NLU), Delhi. Project 39A is a research and litigation initiative focus… Continue Reading

• The Union health ministry has launched the campaign to check the disease that affects children at a young age. About Polio: • The World … Continue Reading

Context: Recommendations to strengthen laws against sexual harassment at workplace. Background: Existing laws: The WCD Ministry had steer… Continue Reading

Context: The signing of the quadripartite agreement in New Delhi to solve the Issue of the Brus. Background: The Brus and their displacement:… Continue Reading

Context: The signing of the agreement between the Government of India, Governments of Tripura and Mizoram and Bru-Reang representatives. Concern… Continue Reading

Bru Tribe: Bru (or Reang) tribals inhabit parts of Northeastern states of Assam, Mizoram and Tripura. In Mizoram, they are largely restricted t… Continue Reading

Abstract: The curative petitions of 2 convicts who were sentenced to death in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, were rejected by a five… Continue Reading

Context: India is among the few countries in the world where, in 2018, the mortality for girls under 5 years of age exceeded that of boys, accordi… Continue Reading

Abstract: The advent of a new tetravalent vaccine against the dengue virus has thrown new light into the evidence-based management of dengue. Ab… Continue Reading

Abstract: The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) published the annual Crime in India Report 2018 on Wednesday. It was published with provisional … Continue Reading

Abstract: Taking stock of infant deaths: in Rajasthan, Gujarat and the rest of India As outrage continues over the deaths of babies in J K Lon Hos… Continue Reading

Abstract: Delhi University ad-hoc teachers demand job regularisation. Overview: The ad-hoc teachers are demanding absorption and promotions for… Continue Reading

At the End TB summit, 2018 the prime minister of India made a bold commitment to end tuberculosis by 2025-five years ahead of the global target. Which… Continue Reading

Shri Tomar said that the special achievement of this session of Parliament was that both Houses passed The 124th Constitutional Amendment Bill -rese… Continue Reading

Context: A study on child malnutrition in India by a team of researchers from Cambridge and Harvard University. Malnutrition: Malnutrition, a… Continue Reading

News: • In the backdrop of protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, a number of minor under the age of 18 have been detained and … Continue Reading

News: The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC), has decided to “return the proposal in its present form” to the Maharashtra State Power Generation … Continue Reading

News: Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is a flagship central scheme promising housing for all by 2022. The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) … Continue Reading

Context In the latest edition of the Global Gender Gap Index 2020 India has slipped to 112th position out of 153 countries from 108 last year. G… Continue Reading

Abstract According to a new study, incidence of cancer in India is centuries old and not a phenomenon caused by westernization as it is popularly b… Continue Reading

Context: Karnataka government’s issuance of the notification allowing women to work night shifts in all factories registered under the Facto… Continue Reading

Context: India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative report has been published in the Lancet Psychiatry. • Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana, … Continue Reading