Editorial Simplified: Innovation, Not Eminence, is Key | GS – II

In India, the better institutions of higher education tend to prepare graduates for their first job or vocation. But this is of limited merit in a world where a person is expected to change vocations and re-skill herself six times over a career.

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Editorial Simplified: Avoiding the Currency Basket Case | GS – III

The rupee is currently not even in the top 10 traded currencies. There is no magic wand to making the rupee appreciate. But institutional resistance against rupee convertibility should be overturned.

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Editorial Simplified: Eyes on India | GS – II

Asia is in a state of flux. China’s Belt and Road Initiative is reshaping the region’s geography. Due to this, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia have unveiled strategies to forge closer economic ties with India.

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Editorial Simplified: Next Steps at Gir | GS – III

The magnificent Asiatic lion is under threat. Twenty-three lions have died in as many days in the eastern part of Gujarat’s Gir sanctuary. While mass mortalities in wildlife are always a cause for concern, this case is even more worrisome as the big cat population in Gujarat is the last of the Asiatic lions in the wild.

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