Editorial Simplified: The Crackdown on Civil Society | GS – II

The modern democratic state, armed with technologies of surveillance and control, possesses the kind of power that has ocsphere that stands between the individual and the omnipresent and omnipotent state is civil society.

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Editorial Simplified: A People’s Campaign to Rebuild Kerala | GS – III

The material loss due to the Kerala floods has been estimated at Rs. 26,000 crore, but beyond this there has been an immense loss of natural, human, and social capital for which no estimates are available.

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Editorial Simplified: Pieces of The Asian Dream | GS – II

This has so far been the year of the India-China reset. From the informal summit at Wuhan to Prime Minister Modi’s keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit at the Chinese port city of Qingdao, all have sparked a lot of analysis.

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Editorial Simplified: How Dams Can Control Floods | GS – III

With the floodwaters finally receding in Kerala, a number of experts and politicians have stated various possible reasons for the tragedy. Some have blamed dams, which were all opened when they were nearly full, causing heavy floods downstream and greatly affecting the lives of the people there.

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Editorial Simplified: Until Dams Do Us Part | GS – III

The tragedy in Kerala has highlighted the dangers of excess water accumulation in dams. More than 20 dams released water that cascaded down the hills, leaving behind a trail of destruction.

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Static – World History – The United Nations Organizations – (4) | Focus – Mains

The UN has been in existence for over 70 years, but it still has not achieved its basic aims. The world is still full of economic and social problems; acts of aggression and wars continue. The UN's failures were caused to some extent by following weaknesses in its system:

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