Daily Editorial Analysis

News & Editorial Analysis 24 December 2022 The Hindu News Analysisi 1 – About the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna: GS II Topic Government Policies and Interventions Context: Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje said on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will decide whether to extend the PMGKAY scheme past December due to the government’s […]

News & Editorial Analysis 23 December 2022 The Hindu Editorial Analysis Srinivas Ramanujan Context Alan Turing, an English computer scientist, claimed that a machine successfully simulates human intelligence (i.e., may lead people to believe it is a human-like intelligence) if it reacts to a query in the same way as a human mind does. It

News & Editorial Analysis 22 December 2022 The Hindu News Analysis Ties with Taliban (IR: GS ll) Page 6 The Taliban “cabinet” in a series of decisions that wipes out the many societal gains since 2001, the last time Taliban was in power, has announced a ban on female students studying in universities. The Taliban

News & Editorial Analysis 21 December 2022 The Hindu News Analysis Three more sites added to tentative list of UNESCO (Art and Culture: GS l) Page 12 Gujarat’s Vadnagar town, the iconic Sun Temple at Modhera, and the rock cut sculptures of Unakoti in Tripura have been added to the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The UNESCO tentative list is

News & Editorial Analysis 20 December 2022 The Hindu News Analysis COP-15 summit adopts historic biodiversity deal (Environment: GS lll) Page 1 Nearly 200 countries, including India, approved a historic Paris-style deal, Kunming-Montreal Agreement, on Monday to protect  and reverse dangerous loss to global biodiversity at the COP-15 biodiversity summit in Canada. The Chinese brokered deal is aimed at saving the lands, oceans and species from pollution, degradation and climate change. The principle enshrined in climate

News & Editorial Analysis 19 December 2022 The Hindu News Analysis Citizenship path to be eased for 6 minority groups from 3 nations ( Polity: GS ll) Page 1 The Union government will ease grant of citizenship to members of six minority communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh whose passports have ceased to be valid during their stay in India. The Home Ministry is expected to revamp the citizenship portal to accept passport

News & Editorial Analysis 18 December 2022 The Hindu News Analysis Pendency poses a hurdle  to Supreme Court’s role as protector of citizens’ rights (Polity: GS ll) Page 6 Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud has said the very purpose of the Supreme Court is to hear every little cry for personal liberty and protection of Fundamental Rights. But pendency is a perennial drawback that affects the court’s role as the timely protector of citizens’ rights. The statement came amid the allegations

News & Editorial Analysis 17 December 2022 The Hindu News Analysis Wayanad rice festival promotes climate resilient crops (Agriculture: GS lll) Page 5 A Kerala based organisation named Thanal  has embarked on a unique conservation experiment, planting 300 climate resilient varieties of traditional rice on 1.5 acre of land at its agroecology centre in Panavally in the Wayanad district. They have launched Ikki Jathre, or the Festival of Rice in tribal parlance.

News & Editorial Analysis 16 December 2022 The Hindu China builds ropeway, roads near tri-junction (Internal Security: GS lll)  Page 1. China has set up a ropeway near the Torsa Nala located near Dokhlam on its side of the India­-Bhutan-China tri-junction, and is strengthening roads and other infrastructure along the entire eastern sector. In the Yangtse area of Tawang sector in Arunachal Pradesh, China had stepped up patrols some years ago to assert its claims in the area, after finding that their grazers could not move in and out. What irks the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is

News & Editorial Analysis 15 December 2022 The Hindu SC gives Centre three months to form Tamil Nadu-Karnataka water disputes tribunal (Society : GS l) Page 3 The Supreme Court gave the Centre three months to constitute an Inter­-state River Water Disputes Tribunal to resolve the dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over constructions in Pennaiyar river. Tamil Nadu had filled an original suit in 2018 against Karnataka’s work on check dams and diversions’ structures in the river maintaining that The flowing water of an Inter-State river was a national asset, and no single state can claim exclusive ownership of it.