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TOPIC – Pursuing post-poll truth
Political violence has long been a feature of West Bengal politics. Whether it is due to a sense of mass empowerment,...
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TOPIC – Top league
The dust has finally settled on a long-winding tournament which also had a pandemic-induced interval. The 14th edition of the Indian Premier League...
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TOPIC – Fast forward
With the Gati Shakti National Master Plan that he launched on October 13, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expanded on the familiar...
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TOPIC – Beguiling base
The latest sets of data on industrial output and retail inflation are beguilingly heartening, with the former showing a double-digit year-on-year increase in production,...
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TOPIC – Jabbing children
As a milestone, the Subject Expert Committee’s (SEC) recommendation to the Drugs Controller to grant emergency use authorization (EUA) for Covaxin among...
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TOPIC – Limits to accommodation
The RBI’s latest monetary policy statement and accompanying actions reflect the dilemma confronting monetary authorities. While the RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to...
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TOPIC – Limits to accommodationThe RBI’s latest monetary policy statement and accompanying actions reflect the dilemma confronting monetary authorities. While the RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to...
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TOPIC – Beating plastic pollutionThe Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules notified by the Centre on August 12 acknowledge the gravity of pollution caused by plastic...
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TOPIC – Handling complexityBringing to close speculation about the winner of the Physics Nobel prize this year, the Nobel committee decided to award a trio of...
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TOPIC – An unproductive idea
Incentives and penalties form an integral component of the measures to control population growth, announced by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on...
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TOPIC – Sensing heatThis year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine — awarded to the researchers, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian from the University of California,...
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TOPIC – Silver win
Sport is a distillation of micro tragedies and megaecstasies enmeshed with whirring limbs, glistening sweat, unabashed tears and booming laughter.And football presents a wider canvas for...
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TOPIC – Needless escalation
The deaths of eight people, four of whom were mowed down by a vehicle that was part of the convoy of Union...
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TOPIC – Cultural genocide
The recent discovery of hundreds of graves in Canada has put the spotlight back on its dark past, when indigenous people faced systemic discrimination and violence....
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TOPIC – No clean sweep
Seven years after launching his government’s marquee programmed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the second phase of Swachh Bharat Mission Urban (SBMU)...
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TOPIC – Failing on food
The approval of the PM POSHAN scheme by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs until 202526 comes at a critical time...
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TOPIC – Tackling the Maoists
In a meeting with State leaders and representatives, Home Minister Amit Shah noted that the geographical influence of the Maoists has...
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TOPIC – Words and deeds
For the third consecutive year in a row, and his fourth such speech since he was elected in 2014, Prime Minister...
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TOPIC – Junior council
No member of the previous Council of Ministers has found a place in the reconstituted Ministry led by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel...
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TOPIC –Another groupingIn its first reaction to AUKUS, the new partnership between Australia, the U.S. and the U.K., India has made it clear that...
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TOPIC – A time to introspectAt its first physical meeting during the pandemic, the GST Tax Council approved a flurry of changes. Concessional tax rates on vital...
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TOPIC – The endgame
The Government has offered a sovereign guarantee to help the new ‘bad bank’, proposed in this year’s Budget, extract better value from...