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Committee Headed by Home Secretary Submitted Report on Lynching

A committee headed by Home Secretary recently submitted its report on enacting a law to curb lynching. Background  Aftermath of Lynching...

30 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Important Facts for Prelims (30th August 2018)

Smart India Hackathon The third edition of World’s Biggest Open Innovation Model - Smart India Hackathon 2019 (SIH-2019) was launched by the...

30 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Pieces of the Asian Dream

The article appears in The Hindu, of 29th August 2018. It engages with India’s relation with the South-East Asian countries and analyses its...

29 Aug 2018 News Editorials

Punjab Assembly Passes Bills to Curb Sacrilege

The Punjab Assembly unanimously passed a Bill which proposes life imprisonment for the desecration of Guru Granth Sahib, Gita, Quran and Bible in...

29 Aug 2018 News Analysis

CPCB Lists Cities With No Clean Up Plan

Of the 102 cities singled out by the Central Government for their alarming pollution levels, under National Clean Air Program, only 73 have submitted...

29 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Important Fact for Prelims (29 August 2018)

Navalekha Project Google announced Navalekha Project at the fourth edition of the Google For India event which will help vernacular newspaper and...

29 Aug 2018 News Analysis

India's First Biofuel Flight

Budget carrier SpiceJet operated India’s first “technology demonstrator” flight on biofuel. With the test flight, India has...

28 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Final Report on Penal Provisions of Company Act 2013

The Committee to review the existing framework dealing with offences under the Companies Act, 2013 and related matters has submitted its...

28 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Refer Krishna Dispute to Tribunal

Telangana Chief Minister has requested Union Governemnt to refer the water disputes pertaining to sharing of Krishna water to the tribunal under the...

28 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Important Facts for Prelims (28 August 2018)

International Court of Justice Iran demanded the UN’s top court, The International Court of Justice (ICJ) to suspend U.S nuclear linked...

28 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Catastrophe Bonds

The recent floods in Kerala have set off a debate about the need for timely aid required to kickstart the relief process. The damage from natural...

27 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Important Facts for Prelims (27 August 2018)

World Hindi Conference The 11th World Hindi Conference was recently organized in Mauritius in 2018, whose theme was ““Hindi World and...

27 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Our Understanding of the Dynamics of Risks of Disasters is Still Far from Comprehensive

(This editorial appears in the Hindustan Times, for 25-08-2018, and it explains how the problem of floods in India is taking a turn for the worse,...

25 Aug 2018 News Editorials

OECD’S Forecast for Global Economy in 2060

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently released a research analysis- The Long View: Scenarios for the World...

25 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Should Article 35A be scrapped?

The ‘Yes, No, It’s complicated’ column of The Hindu for 24th August, 2018, looks upon the Article 35 A, its constitutionality and...

24 Aug 2018 News Editorials

Important Facts for Prelims (24 August 2018)

National Statistical Commission Recently, the National Statistical Commission (NSC) has sought public comments on a report which showed that the...

24 Aug 2018 News Analysis

New Industrial Policy, 2018

The Government of India will be introducing a New Industrial Policy that will replace the 27-year-old existing policy and pave the way for the...

24 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Panel for Roll Out of 5G Services by 2020

The nine-member Steering Committee, headed by Stanford University Professor AJ Paulraj, submitted the report, Making India 5G Ready, to the telecom...

24 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Aeolus Wind Satellite

Recently the European Space Agency’s (ESA) launched its Aeolus satellite into the polar orbit. It is named after Aeolus, who...

24 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban to Include Elimination of Public Urination

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has issued new norms for declaring town and cities wanting to be declared ODF+ (Open Defecation Free Plus)...

23 Aug 2018 News Analysis