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Ethics Daily PIB What is ethical life Series – Ethics / Origin of Moral Sensations “That which the world calls virtue is usually nothing but a phantom formed by our…
Value Added Article: Covering the Last Field | Category – Agriculture | Source – The Hindu
Excess rains and floods in Kerala, deficit rainfall in eastern and north-eastern India, and associated large-scale crop losses have again highlighted the need for providing social protection to poor farmers.
Value Added Article: The Curious State of Indo-US Relations | Category – International Relations | Source – The Financial Express
The ‘2+2’ symbolises the unique framework under which India’s external affairs minister and defence minister held talks with the US defense secretary and the US secretary of state.
Value Added Article: Nutrition – Key to Development | Category – Poverty and Hunger | Source – Yojana
With a population of about 1.2 billion as per 2011 census, India is likely to be the most populous country on this planet by 2030 with 1.6 billion people. Thus, ensuring food and nutrition security is a challenge for India.
Value Added Article: What Kind of Reforms Do the Civil Services Really Need? | Category – Governance | Source – EPW
Recently, there has been talk of reforming the administrative services and especially, the process of recruitment. Earlier this year the government decided to allow the recruitment of 10 experts to the joint-secretary level from outside the services.
Value Added Article: Urban Infrastructure Funding | Category – Urbanization | Source – The Economic Times
India has embarked upon what can be called the most ambitious and comprehensive programme of planned urbanisation undertaken anywhere in the world. This development is also a recognition of the fact that by 2030, 600 million Indians, or 40 per cent of India’s population, will live in urban spaces.
Value Added Article: Why India Could Do With One More Time Zone | Category – Human and Economic Geography | Source – EPW
India spans a longitudinal difference of 30 degrees from the western state of Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh in the East. However, India has a single time zone, defined by mean longitude at 82.5 degrees east of the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), passing through Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh. This results in almost a two-hour difference in sunrise from east to west.
Value Added Article: Food to Nutrition Security | Category – Poverty and Hunger | Source – Yojana
Since 1947, achieving food security has been a major goal of our country. This was because the Bengal Famine created awareness of the need for paying priority attention to the elimination of hunger. Our Food Security Act 2013 specially mentions the need for nutritional security.
Value Added Article: Empowering Rural Women | Category – Problems of women/welfare schemes | Source – Kurukshetra
Poverty is particularly acute for women living in rural households. Women’s poverty is directly related to the absence of economic opportunities and autonomy. Goal of inclusive and sustainable development cannot be reached without addressing rural women’s diverse needs.
Value Added Article: China’s vulnerability, India’s opportunity | Category – International Relations | Source – IDSA
India has reportedly decided not to join the US–led counter to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The US initiative, which is a trilateral one involving Japan and Australia seeks to fund infrastructure projects in the region. India has opted to stay out of this initiative and thus maintain a fine balance between the US and China.
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