Search

PRS Capsule April 2019

Key Highlights of PRS Finance Supreme Court struck down an RBI circular on stressed assets of banks RBI releases draft enabling framework for...

11 Jun 2019 PRS Capsule

Raise Farm Productivity to Boost Manufacturing!

This article is based on "From Plate to Plough: The farm-factory connect" that appeared on 10th June 2019 in Indian Express. It talks about the...

10 Jun 2019 News Editorials

Childhood Index

India ranks 113 of 176 countries on an index that evaluates countries on the wellbeing of children. The End of Childhood Index is part of the Global...

10 Jun 2019 News Analysis

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: UNESCO

Across India, students are bullied because of their sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), forcing many to drop out from...

10 Jun 2019 News Analysis

Milk Fortification Project

The Milk Fortification Project of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is intended to address vitamin deficiency in consumers. It has seen...

10 Jun 2019 News Analysis

Traffic Index 2018

As per the GPS-based study on traffic congestion, Mumbai has been ranked as the most traffic-congested city in the world for the second consecutive...

10 Jun 2019 News Analysis

Barcoding of Medicine

The government plans to make barcoding mandatory on all medicines sold locally in a bid to offset India’s growing reputation as a source of...

10 Jun 2019 News Analysis

Tax-free Bonds

As the name suggests, interest earned from tax-free bonds is exempt from tax. In simple terms, irrespective of the income slab one need not pay...

10 Jun 2019 News Analysis

Disaster Management–I

Why in News? In May 2019, more than 20 young people died due to a deadly fire at a coaching centre in Surat. According to National Crime Records...

10 Jun 2019 Paper 3

Employed Poverty is India's Employment Issue, Not Unemployment

This article is based on the editorial "The only mantra”, that appeared in Indian Express on 8th June 2019. It talks about issues in India's...

08 Jun 2019 News Editorials

World Food Safety Day

The first-ever World Food Safety Day is being celebrated on June 7. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018 in...

08 Jun 2019 News Analysis

River Linking Project

The National Green Tribunal(NGT) has stayed the Godavari-Penna river interlinking projects due to lack of environmental clearance. The NGT has...

08 Jun 2019 News Analysis

RBI’s Debt Resolution Norms

The Reserve Bank of India has issued a new set of norms for dealing with stressed or Non Performing Assets (NPA’s) assets in the banking...

08 Jun 2019 News Analysis

Indian Accounting Standards

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is going to align the definition of financial difficulty with the guidelines issued by the Basel Committee on Banking...

08 Jun 2019 News Analysis

In Depth – Drug Resistance

Whenever one suffers a severe infection, medical practitioners prescribe antibiotics to help one fight the infection caused by bacteria. Also known...

08 Jun 2019 Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha Discussions

What is India's Neighbourhood!

This article "Modi’s visit to Male, Colombo can affirm the salience of the Indian Ocean island states", appeared in Indian Express on 7th...

07 Jun 2019 News Editorials

Cabinet Committees Formed

Recently, the Union government has released the composition of eight Cabinet Committees, including two new ones — one on Investment, the other...

07 Jun 2019 News Analysis

India-Marshall Islands TIEA

Recently, India has notified the Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) signed with the Marshall Islands in 2016. The Agreement enables the...

07 Jun 2019 News Analysis

Consumer Confidence Survey

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released the Consumer Confidence Survey for the month of May 2019. The CCS is conducted in 13 Indian...

07 Jun 2019 News Analysis

Asola Wildlife Sanctuary

Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has declared an area of 1km around the Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary in Gurugram and Faridabad as...

07 Jun 2019 News Analysis