GS-II: Social Justice

Poverty and Globalization

India embraced liberalisation, privatisation, globalisation (LPG) in 1991. Embracing globalisation has been a mixed experience for India. Poverty...

📅 October 10, 2017

Global Hunger Index 2015

The 2015 GHI was calculated for 117 developing countries and countries in transition, 80 of which with alarming...

📅 October 10, 2016

2016 Global Nutrition Report

The 2016 Global Nutrition Report (GNR) was released recently providing an independent and annual review of the state...

📅 October 10, 2016

Poverty and State Of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) by FAO 2015

FAO had released the SOFA in 2015. It highlights the status of agriculture and food in the counties....

📅 October 10, 2016

Poverty and Socio-Economic and Caste Census

The 1st ever post independence Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) was conducted in 2011.  Government released the results...

📅 October 10, 2016

Poverty and Terrorism

Experts have noted recently that the failure to provide opportunities which leads to poverty coupled with misreading of...

📅 October 10, 2016

Urban Poverty versus Rural Poverty in India

Earlier, poverty was only looked upon as a rural phenomenon. However, India faces problem of both rural poverty...

📅 October 10, 2016

Poverty and SDG-1: India’s Challenges and Way Forward

Amongst the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), the goal 1 relates to ending poverty in all its forms...

📅 October 10, 2016

Quercetin and Public Health

Recently, a team from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, had found that Quercetin helps to prevent multiplication...

📅 October 6, 2016

Various Issues Around NPDS Act

As per the NDPS Act, narcotic drugs include coca leaf, cannabis (hemp), opium and poppy straw. Psychotropic substance...

📅 October 6, 2016