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EU Ruling on Gene Editing Technology

The European Court of Justice has ruled that altering living things using the relatively new technique of genome editing counts as genetic...

30 Jul 2018 News Analysis

All About the FASTag

The FASTag is a reloadable tag that allows automatic deduction of toll without having to stop for carrying out the cash transaction. The tag uses...

30 Jul 2018 News Analysis

Gold Council to Aid Exports on the Anvil

The Government of India has decided to set up a Domestic Council for Gold to aid exports of jewellery and to create an ecosystem to harness the true...

30 Jul 2018 News Analysis

The Big Picture – India’s Africa Outreach

Prime Minister Narendra Modi began a three-nation, five-day tour to Africa today (July 23, 2018). The visit to Africa comes ahead of the 10th...

28 Jul 2018 Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha Discussions

Justice BN Srikrishna Committee Submits Data Protection Report

A committee headed by retired Supreme Court Judge Justice BN Srikrishna has submitted its report on "Data Protection Framework" to the...

28 Jul 2018 News Analysis

India in the AI Race

This article is based on an opinion piece published in The Hindu “AI superpower or client nation?” and has inputs from various...

28 Jul 2018 News Editorials

Lending Hands to Someone is Better than Giving a Dole

–Aditya Choppa Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. According to Dalai Lama, our prime purpose in life is to help...

28 Jul 2018 Model Essays

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