Inflation
22 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: An article, part of the RBI’s September bulletin titled “State of the Economy” noted that despite CPI inflation staying...
GS-3
Environment, Ecology and Biodiversity
Savannisation of Amazon Forest
22 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: The Amazon region is experiencing its second consecutive year of severe drought, impacting biodiversity and communities dependent on waterways....
Science and Technology
Surge in Global Stroke Rates
22 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: A recent study published in the journal Lancet Neurology has revealed a significant rise in global stroke rates, with...
Economy
‘Relative Economic Performance of Indian States’
22 September 2024 | The Study IASWhy in the News? The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) released a working paper titled ‘Relative Economic...
Economy
FATF Mutual Evaluation Report on India (2024)
21 September 2024 | The Study IASWhy in News? The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has praised India’s efforts in combating money laundering and terror financing,...
Economy
Reducing India’s Debt/GDP ratio and Fiscal Deficit
21 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: Managing a country’s economy involves reducing the debt-to-GDP ratio by controlling the fiscal deficit, as focusing on debt reduction...
Economy
Nano Businesses
21 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: Government data from 2015 identified over 63 million MSMEs, with more than 60 million classified as micro-enterprises. But within...
Economy
India’s first fashion forecasting initiative ‘VisioNxt’
20 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: Union Minister of Textiles launched the ‘VisioNxt Fashion Forecasting Initiative,’ a bilingual web portal developed by the National Institute...
Economy
Downfall in Casa ratio of banks to Pre-Covid level
20 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: SBI Chairman CS Setty stated that the share of low-cost deposits in the banking system, already declining, could drop...
Economy
Innovation, Competition and Ambition
20 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: Indian industry invests only 0.3% of GDP in in-house R&D, far below the world average of 1.5% and India...
Economy
National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) for Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics, and Extended Reality (AVGC-XR)
20 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: The Union Cabinet approved the establishment of the National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) for Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics,...
Science and Technology
Light Pollution and Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
20 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: Over the past 25 years, global artificial lighting has surged by 49%, causing the night sky’s brightness to increase...
Internal Security
NCB and Narco- Terrorism
20 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: Anurag Garg, an IPS officer of the 1993 batch, has been appointed as the new director general of the...
Schemes
Government Partially Restores Wheat Allocation Under PMGKAY
20 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: The Centre will partially restore wheat distribution for beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) after...
Environment, Ecology and Biodiversity
CAQM has revised the GRAP to address air pollution in the NCR.
20 September 2024 | The Study IASContext: The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has revised the Graded Response Action Plan (Grap) to address air pollution...
