Context: It has been nearly three years since the School Health and Wellness Programme was launched under the Ayushman Bharat scheme, and so far only 15 of India’s States – less than half – have started weekly 40-minute classroom sessions with students, official sources from the Union Health Ministry said. What is School Health and … Read more
Context: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain various pleas challenging the State Government’s notification to conduct caste-based census in Bihar. What is the caste census? What are the benefits of caste census? Why conducting a caste census is a herculean task? What are the perils of knowing caste-wise population?
Context: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Tuesday proposed a draft rule that would require social media platforms to take down content that has been “fact-checked” by the Press Information Bureau’s fact check unit as false. What is Fake News? About the Draft rule: Concerns regarding the draft rule About PIB Fact Checking
Context: As schools reopened after nearly two years of closure due to COVID-19, student enrolments increased to more than pre-pandemic levels but the learning gap widened for foundational skills in reading and arithmetic, reversing several years of improvement, finds the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2022, released by the NGO Pratham. What is ASER? … Read more
Context: More than four years after its landmark order on passive euthanasia, the Supreme Court said it is for the legislature to enact a law for terminally ill patients choosing to stop treatment but agreed to modify its 2018 guidelines on “Living Will”, an advance medical directive on end-of-life treatment. What is Passive euthanasia? Passive … Read more
Context: The Supreme Court sought the Centre’s response on a batch of petitions related to criminalisation of marital rape. A bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and comprising Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala asked the Union government to file its response on the issue by February 15. The final hearing on … Read more
Context: A team of researchers from the Goa-based National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research and the School of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences in Goa University reconstructed the past deep-water circulations of the Indian Ocean. What is Global overturning circulation? About the Research Indian Ocean Deep water circulation Findings of the study What is … Read more