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Make Ethanol Directly From Sugarcane Juice

Recently, the government has notified a decision to allow sugar mills to manufacture ethanol directly from sugarcane juice or an intermediate product...

28 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Agitations for Reservations and the Way Out

Reservations in India has grappled with the question of whether “caste” or “class” should be made the basis of giving...

27 Jul 2018 News Editorials

Einstein Was Right: Astronomers Confirm Key Theory of Relativity

Astronomers have finally confirmed the ‘gravitational redshift or Einstein shift’ with observational data. They got this result by...

27 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Supermarkets Flooded with Foreign GM Foods Despite Ban

Recently, researchers from Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) randomly tested 65 food samples in Gujarat, Punjab and Delhi-NCR and they have...

27 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Important Facts for Prelims (27th July 2018)

Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) aims at the overall development of selected SC majority villages. It...

27 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Direct Benefit Transfer under MGNREGS

To streamline the fund flow mechanism and bring down delay in payment of wages, the Ministry of Rural Development has implemented the National...

27 Jul 2018 News Analysis

New Models for Airport Management

The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India Act, 2008, was enacted to provide an independent authority to protect the interests of airports,...

27 Jul 2018 News Analysis

RBI Moves to Wind-up CDR System

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is considering shutting down the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) system, its very first loan recast mechanism,...

27 Jul 2018 News Analysis

AIM & MyGov Launches ‘Innovate India Platform’

Atal Innovation Mission and MyGov have collaborated together with NITI Aayog to launch the ‘#InnovateIndia Platform’. The platform will...

27 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Panel Finds Dosing Mismatches in Many FDCs

The Drug Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) sub-committee has found that many Fixed-Dose Combinations (FDCs) were formulated without due diligence, with...

27 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Government to Give Free Antiviral for Hepatitis C

The Government of India is set to launch an ambitious programme — National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme - to control viral hepatitis. As...

27 Jul 2018 News Analysis

US, EU Agree to Ease Trade Tensions

United States (US) and the European Union (EU) agreed on a plan to defuse the festering trade dispute between the two major economies. The agreement...

27 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Gender Equality, Religious Freedom and Sabarimala

This article is based on the editorial published in The Hindu "The Sabarimala Singularity" and contains inputs from various sources. In the west,...

26 Jul 2018 News Editorials

The New Emerging Women-Power: Ground Realities

“I believe that the rights of women and girls are the unfinished business of the 21st century.” – Hillary Clinton Gender issues...

26 Jul 2018 Model Essays

Need to Ease Carbon Taxes: NITI Aayog

India is one of the most expensive places to produce coal-based electricity despite having a competitive advantage in coal. From a developing...

26 Jul 2018 News Analysis

The Focus of Healthcare is Increasingly Getting Skewed Towards the ‘Haves’ of our Society.

Good health is one of the most fundamental and basic essential needs of all human beings. That is why, third of the seventeen Sustainable Development...

26 Jul 2018 Model Essays

Important Facts for Prelims (26th July 2018)

Nilgiri Mountain Railway It is one of the five hill railways in India. Apart from NMR, the other four include Darjeeling Himalayan Railways (West...

26 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Underground Lake Found on Mars

Using a radar instrument on an orbiting spacecraft, scientists have spotted a sizable salt-laden lake under ice on the southern polar plain of...

26 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Compensation Scheme Must Cover Child Victims: SC

The Supreme Court has said that the Compensation Scheme for Women Victims/Survivors of Sexual Assault/Other Crimes-2018, proposed by the National...

26 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Optimum Utilization of Fly Ash

Recently, Ministry of Power has informed that ash produced by thermal power plants is being utilized in the manufacture of Portland Pozzolana Cement...

26 Jul 2018 News Analysis