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Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme- DHRUV

Recently, the Union Human Resource Development Minister has launched the Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme named...

10 Oct 2019 News Analysis

WHO India Country Cooperation Strategy 2019–2023

Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare has launched ‘the World Health Organisation (WHO) India Country Cooperation Strategy...

10 Oct 2019 News Analysis

GEMINI Device

The Union Minister of Earth Sciences has recently launched the Gagan Enabled Mariner’s Instrument for Navigation and Information (GEMINI)...

10 Oct 2019 News Analysis

Green Wall of India

The Centre is mulling an ambitious plan to create a 1,400km long and 5km wide green belt from Gujarat to the Delhi-Haryana border. The plan is...

10 Oct 2019 News Analysis

Slum Dwellers

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09 Oct 2019 GS Paper II

Aspirational Districts

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09 Oct 2019 GS Paper II

India-Bangladesh Relationship

This article is based on Be Neighbourly which was published in The Indian Express on 8/10/2019, Good going and A triangular affair which were...

09 Oct 2019 News Editorials

Hindu-Kush-Himalayan Region

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) will collaborate with meteorological agencies in China and Pakistan, among others, to provide climate...

09 Oct 2019 News Analysis

Meghalayan Minor Tribes Exclusion

Recently, the Government of Meghalaya has decided to exclude ‘unrepresented tribes’ from the provisions of the Sixth Schedule of the...

09 Oct 2019 News Analysis

Saturn: Planet with Most Moons

Recently the discovery of 20 new moons of Saturn has made Saturn the planet with the highest number of moons (82) against 79 moons of Jupiter. The...

09 Oct 2019 News Analysis

Information Fusion Centre- Sharing Maritime Data

The Information Fusion Centre for the Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) that was set up last year (in 2018) has started functioning as an...

09 Oct 2019 News Analysis

UNHRC’s UPR

The government is forming a task force to prepare a National Action Plan on Human Rights (NAPHR) as mandated under the UN Human Rights...

09 Oct 2019 News Analysis

National Nutrition Survey

The first-ever comprehensive National Nutrition Survey has been conducted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the United Nations...

09 Oct 2019 News Analysis

Ganga Aamantran

The Ganga Aamantran Abhiyan is an exploratory open-water rafting and kayaking expedition on the Ganga River that is to be held between 10th October...

09 Oct 2019 News Analysis

87th Air Force Day

The Defence Minister of India formally received the first Rafale fighter jet (RB-001) built for the Indian Air Force (IAF) in France on 8th October,...

09 Oct 2019 News Analysis

Sedition Law

This article is based on “Criticism is not sedition” which was published in The Hindu on 7/10/2019. It talks about the relevance of...

07 Oct 2019 News Editorials

Donimalai : Iron Mining

National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) is set to restart mining at Donimalai in Bellari district of Karnataka. The iron ore supply is...

07 Oct 2019 News Analysis

MOSAiC: An Arctic Observatory

The Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) is an international research expedition to study the physical,...

07 Oct 2019 News Analysis

World Cotton Day

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is hosting the event at the request of Cotton-4 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali) to celebrate their official...

07 Oct 2019 News Analysis

Geotail

Recently, an instrument on Chandrayaan-2 named CLASS (Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer) has detected charged particles present on the...

07 Oct 2019 News Analysis