UPSC Editorial analysis

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🔆Does inequality leads to growth #gs3 #economy @upsc_4_economy @upsc_the_hindu_ie_editorial

🔆Consumption and voting #gs2 #polity_governance @upsc_polity_governance @upsc_the_hindu_ie_editorial

🔆Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai (HTHH): ✅It is a submarine stratovolcano in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean. ✅The HTHH volcano includes the small islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha’apai, along with shallow reefs along the caldera rim of a much larger submarine edifice in the western South Pacific Ocean, west of the main inhabited islands in the Kingdom of Tonga. ✅It is located about 30 km south of the submarine volcano of Fonuafoʻou and 65 km north of Tongatapu, the country's main island. ✅The volcano is part of the highly active Tonga–Kermadec Islands volcanic arc, a subduction zone extending from New Zealand north-northeast to Fiji. ✅The Tonga-Kermadec arc was formed as a result of the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Indo-Australian Plate. ✅It has erupted regularly over the past few decades. #gs3 #science_technology @upsc_science_and_technology @upsc_the_hindu_ie_editorial

🔆Postal Voting ✅Postal voting, also known as absentee voting, is a method of voting in which electors cast their ballots by mail rather than in person at a polling station. ✅This method is particularly useful for individuals who are unable to vote in person due to various reasons. 📍Eligibility ✅Service voters: Members of the armed forces, paramilitary forces, and other government employees deployed on election duty far from their home constituencies. ✅Absentee voters: Individuals who are unable to vote in person due to reasons such as being away from their home constituency for work, illness, or disability. ✅Electors on election duty: Government officials and polling staff who are assigned duties at polling stations other than their own. ✅Electors under preventive detention ✅ In March 2024, the govt decided to raise the minimum age for senior citizens, eligible for voting by postal ballot, to 85 years from 80 years. #gs2 #polity_governance @upsc_polity_governance

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🔆Incentives to push India's blue economy #gs3 #economy @upsc_4_economy @upsc_the_hindu_ie_editorial