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Government Plans to Geo-Tag Firms to Check Frauds

As per the newly proposed norms, Companies will have to geotag their registered offices in the annual statutory filings of documents with the...

10 Sep 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

Is Punjab’s Proposed Blasphemy Law Retrograde?

The ‘Yes, No, It’s complicated’ column of The Hindu for 7th September, 2018, traces the history and analyses the possible...

07 Sep 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

Standardising Skill Training, Imparting Digital Literacy

To ensure standardisation of training and learning across all programmes, the Directorate General of Training (DGT) has aligned its courses with...

06 Sep 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

REC seeks RBI nod for Pariwartan ARC

The government is going ahead with plans to start an asset reconstruction company (ARC) to warehouse stressed power projects and protect their value...

06 Sep 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

Solid Waste Management in India

A look at the problem of hills of garbage in megacities of India. One of the most serious issues arising out of the wave of rapid urbanization and...

06 Sep 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

Coral Bleaching

Last Updated: July 2022 For Prelims: Corals, Types of Corals, Coral Bleaching, Great Barrier Reef. For Mains: Causes Responsible for Coral...

04 Sep 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

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 Government Policies & Interventions

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 Government Policies & Interventions

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 Government Policies & Interventions

Ministry of Human Resource Development Launches Innovation Cell

Innovation cell has been established at All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) premises with a purpose to systematically foster the...

31 Aug 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

Cabinet Approves O-SMART Scheme

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

30 Aug 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

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 Government Policies & Interventions

Ban on e-cigarettes

The Union Health Ministry has instructed all the States to put a ban on sale of e-cigarettes and other Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)...

29 Aug 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

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 Government Policies & Interventions

Final Guidelines For Commercial Drone Flights

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued the finalised guidelines for commercial use of drones or remotely operated aircraft from...

28 Aug 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

Final Report on Penal Provisions of Company Act 2013

The Committee to review the existing framework dealing with offences under the Companies Act, 2013 and related matters has submitted its...

28 Aug 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

Panel for Roll Out of 5G Services by 2020

The nine-member Steering Committee, headed by Stanford University Professor AJ Paulraj, submitted the report, Making India 5G Ready, to the telecom...

24 Aug 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban to Include Elimination of Public Urination

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has issued new norms for declaring town and cities wanting to be declared ODF+ (Open Defecation Free Plus)...

23 Aug 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

State can Stop Voluntary Retirement of Doctors

The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that the State can stop government doctors from taking voluntary retirement in light of public...

23 Aug 2018 Government Policies & Interventions

Centre Rules out Total Ban on Firecrackers

The Government of India has ruled out a national ban on firecrackers. This was in response to pleas being heard by the Supreme Court on a complete...

22 Aug 2018 Government Policies & Interventions