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Upgrade At CERN

Six years after the Higgs boson was discovered at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), particle physicists have recently observed how the elusive...

03 Sep 2018 News Analysis

India and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

The editorial analyses SCO's significance for India. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) The SCO was formed in 2001, with the intent of...

03 Sep 2018 News Editorials

Green Tribunal Steps in to Conserve Ghats

The  National Green Tribunal (NGT) has restrained the six Western Ghats States (Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat),...

03 Sep 2018 News Analysis

UN Begins Talks to Regulate the High Seas

The United Nations started talks on a 2020 treaty that would regulate the high seas, which cover half the planet yet lack adequate environmental...

03 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Important Facts for Prelims (3rd September 2018)

MOVE Cyclathon The Move Cyclathon, a cycle rally was organized by NITI Aayog to promote cleaner, accessible modes of transport. It was held in...

03 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Social Audit to Track Construction Workers' Benefits

The Labour Ministry has issued the draft framework for the social audit on the implementation of the Building and Other Construction Workers...

03 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Prime Minister Launched India Post Payments Bank

The Prime Minister launched India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) on September 1, 2018. The government has a target to link all 1.55 lakh post office...

03 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Law Commission's Report on Wrongful Prosecution

The Law Commission has submitted to the government a report titled “Wrongful Prosecution (Miscarriage of Justice): Legal...

01 Sep 2018 News Analysis

4th BIMSTEC SUMMIT 2018

The 4th BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) summit was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on August 30-31....

01 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Shale Gas Extraction- Challenges in India

The article ‘The Shale Gas Challenge’ appeared in The Hindu on 31st August, 2018. It brings out the various issues and challenges related...

31 Aug 2018 News Editorials

Important Facts for Prelims (31st August 2018)

Water Spotted at Jupiter's Great Red Spot NASA scientists have found water above Jupiter’s deepest clouds using ground based...

31 Aug 2018 News Analysis

High Water Discharge From China Threatens Arunachal, Assam

State of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam have been put on high alert after Government received a report from China of high water discharge in Siang river...

31 Aug 2018 News Analysis

Cabinet Approves O-SMART Scheme

Recently the cabinet approved Umbrella scheme “Ocean Services, Technology, Observations, Resources Modelling and Science (O-SMART)”...

30 Aug 2018 News Analysis

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