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Regulating Payment Aggregators and Gateways

Why in News The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released guidelines for regulating activities of Payment Aggregators (PAs) and Payment Gateways...

18 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Subdued Gender Participation In STEM

This article is based on “Closing the gender gap in science” which was published in The Hindu on 17/03/2020. It talks about the gender...

17 Mar 2020 News Editorials

Classical Languages

Why in News Recently, a Bill to grant the status of Central universities to three deemed Sanskrit universities was passed by the Rajya Sabha. The...

17 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Use of Waterways for Reducing Transportation Cost

Why in News Recently, the Minister of State for Shipping has informed in the Rajya Sabha that significant savings in the cost of transportation are...

17 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Superhydrophobic Coating on Metallic Surfaces

Why in News A team from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, and Ohio State University has created a...

17 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Sheikh Mujibur Rehman

Why in News The 100th Birth Anniversary celebrations of ‘Jatir Pita’ Bangabandhu, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is being celebrated on 17th...

17 Mar 2020 News Analysis

ICMR to test for Community Transmission of COVID-19

Why in News The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has announced that it would start testing influenza patients without any travel history or...

17 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Boko Haram

Boko Haram is the militant group in northern Nigeria that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced more than 3 million people. Boko...

17 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Covid-19 and India

This article is based on “Smart-locking India” and “Virus, on balance: Dealing with coronavirus requires a clear public health...

16 Mar 2020 News Editorials

OneHealth Approach

Why in News Recently, to deal with zoonotic diseases, a need to operationalize “OneHealth’ policy in India was...

16 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Video Conference of SAARC Leaders on COVID-19

Why in News The Video Conference of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Leaders on COVID-19 was held recently. All the...

16 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Successful Trails in Treating Drug-Resistant TB

Why in News Recently, a small trial was undertaken to test the safety and efficacy of a few oral drugs against the extensively drug-resistant TB...

16 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Defence Fund Shortfall

Why in News Recently, a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence has shown concern at the widening gap between projections and allocations in the...

16 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Tara Tarini Temple

Why in News The annual Chaitra Jatra festival scheduled to be held on 17th March, 2020 at Odisha’s Tara Tarini hill shrine has been cancelled...

16 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Krishna Raja Sagar Dam

Why in News The water level in the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam in Mandya district (Karnataka) is coming down rapidly owing to the increase in the...

16 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Iron Rain on Exoplanet

Why in News Wasp-76b, an exoplanet (planet outside the solar system), probably has iron raining on it. Key Points Wasp-76b orbits so close...

16 Mar 2020 News Analysis

ROPAX Service

Why in News The Ministry of Shipping has launched a roll on-roll off cum passenger ferry service, called ‘ROPAX’, between Mumbai and...

16 Mar 2020 News Analysis

India’s Diaspora

This article is based on “The ambit and the limits of ‘diaspora diplomacy’ ” which was published in The Hindu on...

14 Mar 2020 News Editorials

AT-1 Bonds

Why in News Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made a proposal to write-down Additional Tier-1 (AT-1) bonds as part of the SBI-led...

14 Mar 2020 News Analysis

Spanish Flu

Why in News As COVID-19 declared a global health crisis, parallels are being drawn with the Spanish influenza of 1918-19, which is considered the...

14 Mar 2020 News Analysis