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17Aug 2023

Why is the Cauvery water sharing issue flaring up again?

Relevance GS Paper 1 Water Resources, Inter-State Relations, Dispute Redressal Mechanisms, Tribunals, Co-operative Federalism. What’s in today’s article? Recent Developments Why dispute History of Cauvery River Water Dispute What is Mekedatu Resevoir Project Geography of Cauvery River Water Dispute How has the water being shared Why Tamil Nadu approached Supreme Court Why in News: Recently, …

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17Aug 2023

Thank You Mr Pathak.

Relevance GS Paper 2 Development Processes and the Development Industry — the Role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders. Tags: #SulabhSanitationRevolution #EndingManualScavenging #SwachhBharatInspiration #InnovationForSocialChange. Why in the news? Bindeshwar Pathak famously called as “Toilet Man of India”, was a visionary social reformer, Pathak, born into the Brahmin caste, …

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17Aug 2023

The U20 Promise.

Relevance: GS Paper 2 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests. Tags: #G20 #U20 #India #upsc Why in the News? The Urban 20 (U20) summit held on July 7 and 8 in Ahmedabad marked a significant event in the history of G20 meetings. U20 Overview • U20 represents a …

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16Aug 2023

Vishwakarma scheme.

Relevance: GS Paper-2 Governance Tags: #vishwakarmascheme #independencedayscheme #poors #workers #artisans #skilledworkers. Why in news? In 15th August 2023, Independence-day speech, honorable Prime Minister has announced a host of schemes for skilled workers, women self-help groups and the urban poor among others. He said the government will launch the Vishwakarma scheme, with an allocation of ₹13,000 crore …

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16Aug 2023

consumption based poverty estimates have relevance.

Relevance: GS Paper- 1: Poverty and developmental issues. GS Paper-2: Issues relating to Poverty and Hunger. Tags: #poverty #relativepoverty #absolutepoverty #hunger #endulkarcommittee #rangarajancommittee #worldbank #multidimensionalpovertyindex #consumptionbasedpoverty. Why in news? A report published by NITI Aayog on multidimensional poverty projected that the percentage of the poor has gone down from 25% in 2015­16 to 15% in …

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16Aug 2023

A Clarion Call.

Relevance: GS 1: History of India and Indian National Movement. GS 4: Integrity, Dedication to Public Service, Probity in Governance. Tags: #IndiaAt77  #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav #Modi77thIndependenceDaySpeech #IndianExpressEditorialAnalysis. Why in News? On 15th August 2023  India celebrated 77th  Independence day, as Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, From the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered his 10th  speech, addressing …

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16Aug 2023

Metagenome sequencing is transforming pathogen surveillance.

Relevance: GS Paper 3 Health Recent Update: One of the initial breakthroughs in the definitive identification of SARS-CoV-2 as the causative agent of COVID-19 came from the application of unbiased genome sequencing technologies to infected patient samples. This new approach – called metagenomics. The technique and its adoption also drastically changed the way pathogen identification …

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15Aug 2023

Rewriting the code.

Relevance GS Paper- 2 Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States. Why in the news? Recently, three bills in Parliament were introduced by government that seek to replace the British-era Indian Penal Code (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and the Indian Evidence Act, with the aim of transforming criminal justice system. These …

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15Aug 2023

Take our campus to world.

Relevance GS paper- 2 Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation. Issues Relating to the Development and Management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, and Human Resources. Tags: #iitcampusabroad #globaleducation #nep #genderrepresentationiniit. Why in the news? Tanzania and India inked a Memorandum of …

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