For Prelims: Democracy Report 2022, India's Rank. For Mains: Threat to Democracy and related issues, Findings of the Democracy Report 2022.Why in News?According to the latest report from the V-Dem Institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg, the level of democracy enjoyed by the average...
The share of poverty in South Asia region excluding India has slightly increased from 7% in 1981 to 9% now, according to the report. India now has the world's largest share of theworld's poor, hungry, illiterate and sickwho stilllack access to very basic sanitation. Pakistan Growth By Dec...
The largest category of Federal employees are the civil servants, the so-called rank and file of the government, literally two million of them, 60 percent of whom work for the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security. Civil servants were created by the 150-year-old meri...
Democracy index assigned to India by Economist Intelligence Unit during the year 2015 was 7.74 at rank 35 which denotes 'flawed democracy'. Countries ranked up to 20 with index ranging between 9.93 (Norway) and Unite States (8.05) were labelled as 'full democracy'....
remote part of the troubled Pakistani province of Balochistan, marking the seventh death of a Pakistani journalist in 2011 and placing Pakistan on pace to rank as the world’s deadliest place for journalists for the second year in a row, according to areportbyThe Committee to Protect ...
India-Pakistan @ 75 and graphic images from Ukraine: Two articles and some context Posted onAugust 18, 2022by beenasarwar Sharing two recent pieces, this time not part of theSapan News Network syndicate. One commissioned by The Wire, and the byThe Conversation. ...
All had individual and very specific requirements, in the case of the former two an entrance exam that produced a rank order entrance list irrespective of grades and other factors. The schools were hypercompetitive and ended up racially tilted toward white and Asian students (in a recent year ...