Indian households waste 50 kg of food per person per year, says UNEP The latest Food Waste Index Report, released
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Current Affairs
ORAL DEMOCRACY
Critical scrutiny of the challenges of electoral democracy including elite capture, corruption, and patronage has led to a revival of
Continue readingCRIMINAL POLITICIANS AND INFORMED VOTING IN INDIA
In the context of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections, a voter information experiment was conducted across more than
Continue readingUSING MOBILES TO IMPROVE GOVERNANCE
Measuring how well major public programmes are implemented remains a core governance challenge. With the increasing mobile-phone penetration in the
Continue readingNEW MINISTRY – FOR POOR AMONG UPPER CAST
Bihar IPS officer: Need ministry for backward among upper castes A SENIOR serving IPS officer of Bihar cadre has called
Continue readingCOVID-19 and the crumbling world order
COVID-19 will fundamentally transform the world as we know it: the world order, its balance of power, traditional conceptions of national
Continue readingRoll Call: Describing the pandemic
The Covid-19 epidemic is not the proverbial ‘elephant in the room’ but a ‘black elephant’ event ‘The Coronavirus is the
Continue readingTRANSGENDERS AS CONSTABLES
In a 1st, Chhattisgarh inducts 13 transgenders as constables..In a reflection of changing times, transgenders popularly known as kinnars, have
Continue reading“House Will Be Known By Daughter’s Name”
Uttarakhand’s New Initiative : “Our government is dedicated to the betterment of women. The house will be known by the name
Continue readingReading Marx in times of COVID-19
Karl Marx writings helps us understand how situations like the pandemic do not affect all sections of the society in
Continue readingImmunity passports might be inevitable as we go along
In the first phase of the covid-19 pandemic, most countries tried to starve the disease of the oxygen it needed
Continue readingOpposing Same-Sex Marriage In Court, Government Cites “Indian Ethos”
The Centre has said that the top court by its judgement in the Navtej Singh Johar case only decriminalised a
Continue reading“ESSENTIAL RELIGIOUS PRACTICES”
How Supreme Court’s Sabarimala verdict differs with Ayodhya order In Adelaide Co. of Jehovah’s Witnesses Inc. v Commonwealth (1943), Australia’s
Continue readingSummary of the Budget 2021-22
Summary of the Budget 2021-22 PART-A The Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs, Smt Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union
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Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the Union Budget 2021 of India on the 1st of February, 2021. Here
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