Pakistan and China are on the path of executing a multi billion dollar mammoth infrastructure project called China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). These two countries are describing the project as a “game-changer” and a crucial arm of China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) Project. The project announced in June 2015 by Chinese President Xi Jinping stipulated […]
The Oscar Award 2017 end with an unusual drama as La La Land is wrongly announced for best picture instead of Moonlight. “There’s a mistake. Moonlight, you won best picture,” Fred Berger, the La La Land producer announced showing the card. Warren Beatty ,who announced the wrong name, said he had been given the wrong […]
India is struggling with its expenditure management since the Economic crisis of 1991. The fiscal deficit of India had touched unmanageable level at 8.4 per cent of GDP in 1991 and it was panned to bring it down to 4.5 per cent by 1996. Indian government was able to contain the fiscal deficit to the […]
The US Treasury added 13 Iranians and 12 companies on February 4, 2017, some of which are based in Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and China, to its sanctions list. The United States has announced new sanctions against Iran after its recent missile test. Tehran denounced US sanctions saying that it would impose its own legal restrictions on […]
Washington is in the grip of a revolution. The bleak cadence of last month’s inauguration was still in the air when Donald Trump lobbed the first Molotov cocktail of policies and executive orders against the capital’s brilliant-white porticos. He has not stopped. Quitting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, demanding a renegotiation of NAFTA and a wall with […]
The Government has simplified the maintenance of Labour registers of about 5.85 crore establishments in agriculture and non- agriculture sectors. These registers are related to details of employees, their salaries, loans/recoveries, attendance etc. This exercise will drastically reduce the number of registers being maintained by these establishments from 56 to only 5 by doing away […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) set a new record in space mission achievements after it successfully launched 104 satellites in desired orbits one go from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on February 2017morning. This was ISRO’s first space mission for the year 2017, and the most complicated mission it has ever carried […]
US President is very angry on media. Media is called fourth estate in democracy. In the fast moving information age, media has immense power to affect people’s choices- sometimes based on truth and facts and sometimes by their capacity to propagate a certain ideology, agenda or propaganda. But media is not a neutral entity. It […]
Scientists of NASA announced discovery of an entire system of Earth-sized planets. In these seven planets, six innermost are rocky like earth. Three of the planets lie in the star’s habitable zone. The habitable zone or goldilocks zone is the region surrounding a star in which liquid water could theoretically exist. This means that all […]
1. Solstice The word solstice is derived from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), because at the solstices, the Sun stands still in declination; that is, the seasonal movement of the Sun’s path (as seen from Earth) comes to a stop before reversing direction. A solstice is an astronomical event that occurs twice each year (in June and December) as the Sun reaches its highest […]