About ICI The monthly Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI) is a production volume index. The objective of the ICI is to provide an advance indication on production performance of industries of ‘core’ nature. These industries are likely to impact …
CONTEXT Despite the pandemic unleashing in full force, there has been futile debate last month about holding or postponing board examinations instead of exploring alternatives. Rather than viewing this unprecedented situation as a unique opportunity for re-imagining educational assessments and …
CONTEXT India is one of the largest welfare states in the world yet, amidst the pandemic of COVID-19, the state failed to provide welfare for its most vulnerable citizens. EFFECT OF PANDEMIC The country witnessed multiple crises: mass inter- and …
CONTEXT The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of health systems to infectious diseases, and caused millions of deaths around the globe since last year. As serious as the current health and economic crisis is, there is a possibility that …
Why in News? China launched an unmanned module called Tianhe containing what will become living quarters for three crew on a permanent space station that it plans to complete by the end of 2022. About the space station The module …
What are carbon emissions? Carbon emission is the release of carbon into the atmosphere. To talk about carbon emissions is simply to talk of greenhouse gas emissions; the main contributors to climate change. Since greenhouse gas emissions are often calculated …
Why in News? In its report on trends in global military expenditure in 2020, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has found that the world’s top military spenders — the US, China and India — saw their military spending …
Background With COVID-19 and trade tensions between China and the United States threatening supply chains or actually causing bottlenecks, Japan mooted the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) in 2020 as a trilateral approach to trade, with India and Australia as …