Relevance: Prelims: Current Affairs Astronomers have for the first time discovered water vapour in the atmosphere of a distant planet
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India joins global antimicrobial resistance research hub
Relevance: Prelims India has joined the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research and Development (R and D) Hub as a new
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Relevance: Prelims: Defence Joint Military Exercise MAITREE-2019 between India and Thailand will be conducted at Umroi (Meghalaya) from 16-29 Sep
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Relevance: Prelims: Polity Why in news? Justice Deepak Gupta, a sitting judge of the Supreme Court, noted how the provision
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The Idea of Common School in the Education Policy: Overlooked
Relevance: Mains: Current affairs analysis: G.S paper III: Education In the 1830s, Horace Mann proposed common schools, that is, tax-funded
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Relevance: Mains: Current affairs: Analysis Over the past decade and a half, India has evidenced several important mergers of public
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Relevance: mains: G.S paper II: Indian Polity Citizenship cannot be seen as existing outside the larger concerns of humanity. The
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Infrastructure in Health Care
Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Health Health infrastructure is an important indicator for understanding the health care policy and welfare
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Relevance: mains: Current affairs analysis It is about two years since UDAN was conceived. The Union Government’s flagship regional Connectivity
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National Water Ways: Integrated Transport Network
Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Indian Economy: Transport The Government of India is aggressively pushing for the development of inland
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Medieval India: Bhakti Movement
Relevance: Prelims/Mains: G.S paper: I: Medieval History Brahminism vs Buddhism/Jainism vs Devotional Paths (Bhakitsm, Sufism, and Sikhism) Brahminism based on caste-system was prominent
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Sociology: THEORIES OF STRATIFICATION: TOWARDS A SYNTHESIS , BERGHE
THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON STRATIFICATION we can observe interesting parallels in the manner in which the, phenomenon of social
Continue readingOne year after ‘Navtej Johar’, imagining an equality law
Relevance: Mains: Polity: current Affairs Why in news? The Supreme Court’s decision in Navtej Johar v. Union of India had
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Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Governance Context The Jan Soochna Portal launched by the government of Rajasthan is a remarkable
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Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Education Why in news? Recently, Romila Thapar and 11 others were asked to submit their
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