Current Affair Category: Social Justice

Sir Fredrick Banting’s birth anniversary is observed as World Diabetes Day onNovember 14every year as a tribute to the history behind the discovery of insulin, one of medicine’s greatest breakthrough; the eternal Flame of Hope burns in Canada tohonourBanting’s achievement Discovery of Insulin: Historical Context: Before the discovery of insulin, diabetes, especially Type 1 diabetes, […]

The State of Food and Agriculture 2024’ (SOFA 2024): Why in News? The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has  recently released ‘The State of Food and Agriculture 2024’ (SOFA 2024). Key Findings: True Cost Accounting: The report calls for the importance of true cost accounting in agrifood systems. It helps to uncover the hidden costs […]

The top court has laid down a ‘holistic and realistic’ test to determine the ‘minority character’ of an educational institution that would ensure special protections underArticle 30 Is Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) a minority educational institution (MEI) with significant constitutional protections to manage its affairs? A seven-judge Bench of the Supreme Court has  laid down in […]

The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has taken cognisance of representations sent to it against a June advisory of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), asking state forest departments to submit action plans on the relocation of villages from tiger reserves. Further, the commission also decided to seek an action-taken report from the Union […]

Maharashtra economically better off, but lags behind in social measures: The State is among the top 10 in per capita income; it ranks last among all the States in the share of wasted children: Maharashtra is economically better off than many other States and it weathered the pandemic well. However, its performance on various social […]

Coal will be central to India’s energy mix for at least another decade, and moving away from it poses a massive challenge. For a just transition away from coal, India will require over $1 trillion or Rs 84 lakh crore over the next 30 years, according to a study by environment and climate change research think-tank […]

Need to legalize Marital Sex: The omission of MRE is violative of constitutional guarantees of equality to women and India’s obligations under the Convention on Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) states that the definition of violence against women shall include marital rape. The non-recognition of marital rape […]

Doctors’ strike reveals how apathy to health pushes people into poverty: West Bengal’s healthcare expenditure is 1% of its gross state domestic product, and 68% of healthcare expenses in the State come from the pockets of patients, the second worst figure in India after Uttar Pradesh. The State also spends less than 3% of GDP […]

Why in News?  Poor households globally lose 5% of their total income in an average year from heat stress and 4.4% from floods compared with households that are relatively better off, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said in a report recently, warning about the negative impacts of climate change on the […]

The concepts of inclusive and extractive institutional frameworks are central to understanding why some nations prosper while others remain in poverty. These terms were popularized by economists Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in their book “Why Nations Fail.” Here’s an explanation of both concepts: 1. Inclusive Institutional Framework: Inclusive institutions create a level playing […]