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Booklists and Approach for Sociology by CSE Rank 15   I first read the two Class 11 NCERTs – Introducing Sociology and Understanding Society, and the two Class 12 NCERTs – Indian Society and Social Change and Development in India once, and highlighted the important Read More ……

Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan or Self-Reliant India Mission Prime Minister in his address on 12th May 2020 has announced the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan (or Self-Reliant India Mission)’ with an economic stimulus package worth Rs 20 lakh crores aimed towards achieving the mission. Read More ……

Recommended Solutions For Stubble burning Stubble Burning near NCR region Subsidies on Machines for clearing fields Zero tolerance policy to stubble burning Stubble should be converted into biofuels and fertilisers There must also be a sense of proportion, Read More ……

Supreme Court and Aadhaar  SC held Aadhaar as a reasonable restriction on individual privacy that fulfils the government’s “legitimate aim” to provide dignity to a large, marginalised population living in abject poverty. Declared Aadhaar a “document of empowerment”. Read More ……

Hera Mission of ESA What is the News? Planning for humankind’s first mission to a binary asteroid system has entered its next engineering phase. ESA’s proposed Hera mission would also be Europe’s contribution to an ambitious planetary defence Read More ……

Angel Tax What is the News? The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade and Central Board of Direct Taxation are likely to increase the exemption threshold for startups from the so-called Angel Tax. Under the new Read More ……

ISRO’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle(SSLV) and How it differs from PSLV What is the News? ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) at Thumbahas completed the design for the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), the ‘baby rocket’ billed as Read More ……

National Mission for Green India The National Mission for Green India (GIM) is one of the eight Missions outlined under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).  It aims at protecting; restoring and enhancing India’s diminishing forest cover and responding to climate change by Read More ……

Qatar and the Gulf Cooperation Council What is the news? Bahrain’s Foreign Minister criticised Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad alThani for not attending a Gulf Arab summit in Saudi Arabia, an absence that suggests a rift between Read More ……