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Regulating Right to Freedom of Religion

The High Court of Karnataka has issued guidelines to all city municipal corporations regarding granting permission for temporarily using public roads...

28 Sep 2019 News Analysis

Silicosis and Mining Safety

Saharia tribe miners in Madhya Pradesh have appealed to the government to treat them for silicosis rather than Tuberculosis. Recently the...

28 Sep 2019 News Analysis

A Better Way of Waste Management

This article is based on “Segregation of waste: There is a disturbing pushback against this effort” which appeared in The Indian...

27 Sep 2019 News Editorials

Policy Watch- Power Tariff Policy

In the proposed Draft Amendments to the National Tariff Policy 2016, the government has included the provisions for imposition of penalties on the...

27 Sep 2019 Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha Discussions

Indigenous Fuel Cell System

On the occasion of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Foundation Day, the President of India recently introduced India’s...

27 Sep 2019 News Analysis

World Digital Competitiveness Ranking

India has jumped four places from 48th place in 2018 to 44th rank in 2019 in World Digital Competitiveness Ranking (WDCR). The country has...

27 Sep 2019 News Analysis

Population Pyramid

A population pyramid is a graphical representation of the age and sex composition of a specific population. It consists of two histograms, one for...

27 Sep 2019 News Analysis

World Tourism Day

The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has chosen India as the host country to observe World Tourism Day 2019. The theme for this...

27 Sep 2019 News Analysis

2I/Borisov: An Interstellar Object

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially declared a recently spotted comet as an interstellar object. This means that the object,...

27 Sep 2019 News Analysis

India- CARICOM

India’s historic and warm relations with the countries of the Caribbean witnessed a new momentum with the meeting of Prime Minister of India...

27 Sep 2019 News Analysis

India-New Zealand

The Prime Minister of India met Prime Minister of New Zealand on the sidelines of UNGA meetings in New York. The issues of International Terrorism...

27 Sep 2019 News Analysis

India-Estonia

Recently, the Prime Minister of India met President of the Republic of Estonia on sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly...

27 Sep 2019 News Analysis

Right Livelihood Award

The Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was recently awarded the Right Livelihood Award-2019, also known as Sweden's alternative Nobel...

27 Sep 2019 News Analysis

Israel-Palestine

Why in the news? Palestine has rejected the US-Bahrain led Peace to Prosperity economic workshop on the ground that it says nothing about ending...

26 Sep 2019 Paper 2

Biotechnology Sector in India

This article is based on “Different peas in different pods” which appeared in The Hindu on 26/09/2019. It talks about challenges...

26 Sep 2019 News Editorials

Quantum Supremacy

The phrase ‘quantum supremacy’ was coined in the year 2011 by John Preskill, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute...

26 Sep 2019 News Analysis

Darknet

The Kerala Police has set up a ‘state-of-the-art lab’ to intervene and crack down on the rising criminal activities over the Darknet,...

26 Sep 2019 News Analysis

Line of Credit to Pacific Island Nations

On the sidelines of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, the Indian Prime Minister has announced a $150 million worth line of credit to the...

26 Sep 2019 News Analysis

Special Report on Climate Change: IPCC

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made public ‘The Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate’...

26 Sep 2019 News Analysis

Israel-Palestine

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26 Sep 2019 Paper 2