India’s GDP Grows 7.7 Per Cent in FY26
Source: IE Background & Concept Why does this matter? A growth figure like 7.7% is an aggregate of every act of production in the economy. Understanding it requires knowing what is being measured (GDP vs GNP), at which prices (constant vs current,…
The Power of Mangroves Over Seawalls
Source: The Hindu Background & Concept What is the issue? After Cyclone Dana, the debate over coastal protection has reopened: should India keep investing in “grey” engineered defences (concrete seawalls, groynes), or shift to…
Panchayat Advancement Index (PAI) Wins Gold at National Awards for e-Governance 2026
Source: PIB Background & Concept What is being recognised? The PAI converts Gram Panchayat performance into measurable, comparable scores on a unified digital dashboard, aligned to the LSDG framework — India’s adaptation of the UN SDGs to the…
Project UDAYAK
Source: PIB Background & Concept What is Project UDAYAK? A territorial project of the BRO that constructs and maintains strategic roads, bridges, helipads, and border fencing in the easternmost districts of Arunachal Pradesh and parts of Assam —…
Government Launches ₹200-Crore MAHA Water Mission
Background & Concept What is the MAHA Water Mission? A national mission under the MAHA (Missions for Advancement in High-impact Areas) framework of the ANRF, focused on the water sector. Its core purpose is to create an integrated innovation pathway…
India’s Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)
Source: SRS Special Bulletin on Maternal Mortality Background & Concept What is MMR? The Maternal Mortality Ratio is the number of maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births in a given period. A maternal death (per WHO/ICD) is the death of a woman…
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)
Source: News on Air / PIB Background & Concept What is ABDM? A flagship digital public infrastructure initiative to create a seamless, interoperable digital health ecosystem. It began as the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), piloted in six UTs…
BrahMos Missile
Background & Concept What is BrahMos? A state-of-the-art, two-stage, universal supersonic cruise missile developed by BrahMos Aerospace, an Indo-Russian joint venture set up in 1998. The name fuses two rivers — Brahmaputra (India) and Moskva…
PM SVANidhi Scheme Completes Six Years
Background & Concept What is PM SVANidhi? A Central Sector Scheme launched in June 2020 by MoHUA with the DFS under the Ministry of Finance — the government’s first-of-its-kind response to the pandemic shock on street vendors, a cash-based,…
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Episode, 2026
Background & Concept What is the Gen Z–Democracy Interface? Gen Z and Democracy refers to the evolving relationship between the youngest voting cohort — those born roughly between 1997 and 2012 — and established democratic institutions. Unlike…