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The Big Picture- Women in the Workforce
The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2020 ranked India at 149th position out of 153 countries on Economic participation and...
24 Mar 2020 Indian Society
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UN World Happiness Report- 2020
Why in News The Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations released the World Happiness Report on 20th March, 2020. March...
21 Mar 2020 Indian Society
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The Big Picture: Census- Challenges & Importance
There have been rising instances of attack on field enumerators conducting National Sample Survey exercise in some areas of Kerala, Uttar Pradesh,...
18 Feb 2020 Indian Society
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Why in News The Kambala jockey who was compared to world record holder Usain Bolt after a video went viral showing him ‘finishing 100 metres...
18 Feb 2020 Indian Society
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Global Social Mobility Index: WEF
Why in News The World Economic Forum (WEF) has come out with its first-ever Global Social Mobility Report. The Social Mobility Report showed that...
21 Jan 2020 Indian Society
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Why in News Over 100 people were injured in three Jallikattu events in Tamil Nadu. Jallikattu is a traditional bull-taming event that is...
18 Jan 2020 Indian Society
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Why in News Recently, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey released a ranking of the fastest-growing urban areas across the world which...
14 Jan 2020 Indian Society
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World Hindi Day is celebrated every year on January 10 to promote the Hindi language all around the world. It was first celebrated in 2006 to...
11 Jan 2020 Indian Society
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Why in News There has been growing demand to include Tulu in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. At present, Tulu is not an official language...
07 Jan 2020 Indian Society
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Why in News The anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests have brought demands of the Adivasis and tea tribes in Assam to the forefront. The...
04 Jan 2020 Indian Society
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Khond are people of the hills and jungles of Odisha state. They speak Kui and its southern dialect, Kuwi, of the Dravidian language family. Most...
27 Dec 2019 Indian Society
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Steps to Curb Abuse of Synthetic Drugs
Why in News To deal with the problem of abuse of synthetic drugs and New Psychotropic Substances (NPS), the government is considering generic...
22 Nov 2019 Indian Society
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The Ministry of Minority Affairs initiated the Jiyo Parsi Scheme in 2013 to check the declining Parsi population. The main objective of the scheme...
22 Oct 2019 Indian Society
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The Ministry of Minority Affairs initiated the Jiyo Parsi Scheme in 2013 to check the declining Parsi population. The main objective of the scheme...
22 Oct 2019 Indian Society
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Meghalayan Minor Tribes Exclusion
Recently, the Government of Meghalaya has decided to exclude ‘unrepresented tribes’ from the provisions of the Sixth Schedule of the...
09 Oct 2019 Indian Society
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Why in the news Recently, the Supreme Court in a case concerning the question of whether succession and inheritance of a Goan domicile is governed...
07 Oct 2019 Indian Society
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This editorial is based on “Menstrual hygiene: A challenging development issue” which was published in Down to Earth on 27/09/2019. It...
30 Sep 2019 Indian Society
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A population pyramid is a graphical representation of the age and sex composition of a specific population. It consists of two histograms, one for...
27 Sep 2019 Indian Society
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International Day of Indigenous Peoples
International day of indigenous people is observed on August 9 every year, in order to raise awareness of the needs of indigenous people. The first...
10 Aug 2019 Indian Society
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The next census of India to be conducted in 2021 with March 1, 2021 as the reference date, except for the states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal...
03 Aug 2019 Indian Society
