What is blue whale threat facing the children? Why children have become more vulnerable to computer or mobile games? Will promotion of sports and constructive extra-curricular activities help curb this menace? Give reasons. What are the advantages and disadvantages of reservations in government jobs in India on the basis of economic criteria? Do you […]
What are the main features of New Armed Forces Doctrine Of India? What are its implications for India’s security and defense strategy in future? What do you mean by hot pursuit? In view of existing international laws, can India’s recent surgical strikes be justified? Naxalism in India is byproduct of inequality and exploitation on […]
What are the main findings NCRB data on farmers’ suicide? Explain how farmers’ suicide in India is outcome of institutional and economic failure both. What are the basic flaws in loan waiver schemes? Suggest alternative measures to help farmers in distress. What are the main components of the third generation of economic reforms? Enlist the […]
Noble for Physiology or Medicine — Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash Michael W. Young- “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm” Physics— Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, Kip Thorne- “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” Chemistry— Jacques Dubochet, Richard Henderson, Joachim Frank – “for developing […]
On September 27, several media outlets published a nine-page document in which the “Big Six” group of White House and congressional Republican negotiators laid out their plans for a bill to overhaul the federal tax code. No bill has been released as of October 10, when President Trump told reporters that the plan would be adjusted over […]
Days after the International Monetary Fund lowered its growth forecast for the current and the next year, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said on October 15 the Indian economy is on a “very solid track” in the mid-term. The IMF Managing Director Lagarde said, “Turning to India…we have slightly downgraded India, but we believe that India […]
The Supreme Court on Friday decided to give a detailed and holistic hearing from November 21 on the contentious issue of government’s decision to deport Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar. The apex court also made it clear that in case any contingency arises in the intervening period, the petitioners have the liberty to approach it for […]
The United States will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of next year, the US State Department said on October 12, to stop accumulating unpaid dues and make a stand on what it said is anti-Israel bias at the U.N.’s educational, science and cultural organization. In notifying UNESCO of the decision Thursday morning, the State […]
The economic survey 2016 had cautioned about the build-up of deflationary impulses in the economy that are weighing on an economy yet to gather its full momentum and still away from its potential. According to it the deflationary impulses included: stressed farm revenues, as non-cereal food prices have declined; farm loan waivers and the fiscal […]
The Catalan independence referendum of 2017 was an independence referendum called by the Generalitat de Catalunya and approved by the Parliament of Catalonia, but declared illegal on 6 September 2017 and suspended by the Constitutional Court of Spain because it breached the Spanish Constitution of 1978. It was held on 1 October 2017 in the […]