Relevance: Prelims: Economy Why in news? • Unlike in the past, when the RBI used its repo rate as the
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World Earth Day 2020
Relevance: Prelims/mains: Environment EARTH DAY 2020 THEME: CLIMATE ACTION The enormous challenges — but also the vast opportunities — of
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ILO: Indians can slip deeper into poverty due to Covid-19
ILO: Indians can slip deeper into poverty due to Covid-19 Relevance: Sociology: Challenges of Social Transformation:(a) Crisis of development: displacement, environmental
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Why India needs a formal economy?
Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Indian Economy CONTEXT The litmus test for how policy makers handle the economic fallout of
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World Chagas Disease Day
Relevance: Prelims: Health: Science Why in news? • The global community is preparing
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Minor forest produce
Relevance: Prelims: Environment Why in news? • In the latest set of lockdown relaxations, the Ministry of Home Affairs has
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Precautionary principle
Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology Why in news? The aggressive methods to halt the virus by suspending mobility are examples
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NAXAL MOVEMENT IN INDIA
Relevance: Sociology: Social Movements in Modern India: G.S paper III: Internal Security: Linkages between development and spread of extremism. Role of external
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ANTI-DEFECTION LAW: EXPLAINED
Relevance: Prelims/Mains: G.S paper II: Polity: Governance CONTEXT The Supreme Court urged Parliament to set up an independent tribunal to
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June Almeida: The scientist who visualized the first human coronavirus
Relevance: Prelims: Science Why in news? • The scientist who visualized the first human coronavirus was virologist June Almeida. She
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The Whole-Genome sequencing of coronavirus
Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology Why in news? • One more institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
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Kisan Rath Mobile App
Relevance: Prelims/Mains: G.S paper II: Governance & G.S paper III: Agriculture Why in news? • Agriculture Ministry has launched Kisan
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Pseudocapacitors
Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology Why in news? Scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST) have developed
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Gender Stratification: Sociological Perspectives
Relevance: Sociology: Stratification and Mobility:Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race The Functionalist Perspective The
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The Sociology of Gender: Perspective
Relevance: Stratification and Mobility: Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race. INTRODUCTION The sociology of gender is
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