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The National Digital Communications Policy, 2018

The Union Cabinet has approved the new telecom policy now named National Digital Communications Policy (NDCP) 2018 and also re-designation of the...

27 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Ineffective E-waste Recycle Firms

According to a report by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, many of India’s electronic-waste (e-waste) recyclers...

27 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Important Facts for Prelims (27th September 2018)

Indian Ocean Naval Symposium The ‘Indian Ocean Naval Symposium’ (IONS) is a voluntary initiative that seeks to increase maritime...

27 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Important Facts for Prelims (26th September 2018)

Parakram Parv Armed forces will observe ‘Parakram Parv’ from September 28 to 30 to mark the second anniversary of surgical strikes...

26 Sep 2018 News Analysis

SC Ruled Legislators Can Continue Legal Practices

The Supreme Court  has ruled that legislators cannot be barred from working as lawyers. Background Mr. Ashwini Upadhyay in December 2017,...

26 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Important Facts for Prelims (25th September 2018)

Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary Tipeshwar Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra It is fast emerging as a prime tiger...

25 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Science & Technology

2018 1. Consider the following pairs: Commonly used/consumed materials                 Unwanted or...

25 Sep 2018 GS Paper I (Subject Wise)

NTBN Approves Nutrition Norms

India’s top nutrition panel, the National Technical Board on Nutrition (NTBN) has recommended that severely malnourished children must be...

25 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Ayushman Bharat

The editorial is primarily based on the article “The Primary Anchor of a Health-Care Road Map” which appeared in The Hindu on 24th...

25 Sep 2018 News Editorials

Important Facts for Prelims (24th September 2018)

Citizen Science Initiative to Save Hornbills Recently a citizen science initiative of documenting Indian hornbills has been taken to provide...

24 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Treat One-Sided Laudatory News Reports as Paid News: EC to SC

Laudatory news articles by which a political leader appeals for votes in his favour by boasting his record and achievements should be treated as paid...

24 Sep 2018 News Analysis

RBI Norms for Co-origination of Loans

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released the guidelines on co-origination (a form of loan participation where two or more lenders lend money to a...

22 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Fall Armyworm: Fighting the Pest in India

Fall Armyworm (FAW), or Spodoptera frugiperda, is an insect that is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. In its larva stage,...

22 Sep 2018 News Editorials

Greening India by Planting Bamboo

Recently World Bamboo Day (September 18) was celebrated to create awareness about the importance of bamboo as a versatile material for sustainable...

22 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Important Facts for Prelims (22nd September 2018)

UTRAQ to receive NavIC signals UTRAQ, a vehicle tracking system designed by Ramakrishna Electronic Components will receive signals from NavIC...

22 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Is the NITI Aayog relevant today?

The ‘Yes, No, It’s complicated’ column of The Hindu for 21st September 2018, analyses the relevance of NITI Aayog in the governance...

21 Sep 2018 News Editorials

Mission Gaganyaan

21 Sep 2018 Paper 3

Multidimensional Poverty Index by UNDP and OPHI

The 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released  by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and...

21 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Important Facts for Prelims (21st September 2018)

Tirumala Rathotsavam Gaiety and religious splendour marked Rathotsavam at Tirumala, on the penultimate day of the nine-day annual Srivari...

21 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Mission Gaganyaan

Why in News? The Prime Minister of India in his Independence Day address announced that an Indian astronaut would go into space by 2022, when...

21 Sep 2018 Paper 3