Salt Satyagaraha Salt March, also called Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha was a major nonviolent protest action in India against the British rule. It was led by Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi in March–April 1930. The march was the first act in the series of the campaign of civil disobedience (Satyagraha). The civil disobedience movement was extended into early 1931. The movement garnered Gandhi widespread support […]
According to a report (by Orios Venture Partners) titled ‘The Indian Tech Unicorn Report 2021’ revealed that 46 unicorns (companies with $1 billion valuations) were added in the list of unicorns in 2021 alone, more than doubling the total number of unicorns to 90. These include ShareChat, Cred, Meesho, Nazara, Moglix, MPL, Grofers (now Blinkit), […]
Chandragupta Maurya Chandragupta Maurya (321–297 BCE) was the founder of the Maurya Empire in ancient India. Chandragupta built one of the largest empires on the Indian subcontinent. Greek writer Phylarchus (c. third century BCE), who is quoted by Athenaeus, calls Chandragupta “Sandrokoptos”. The later Greco-Roman writers Strabo, Arrian, and Justin (c. second century) call him “Sandrocottus”. In Greek and Latin accounts, Chandragupta is known as Sandrakottos and Androcottus. Chandragupta Maurya was an important […]
The Finance Ministry of every country prepares and presents its budget for each new Fiscal Year. A budget is an annual account of a Government’s estimated or projected receipts and expenditure. Government’s finance is called ‘Public Finance’ in economic literature. Government’s receipts are called ‘Public Revenue’ and Government’s expenditure is called ‘Public Expenditure’. A Fiscal […]
An ethical theory is a theory about what makes an action or set of actions morally right or wrong. Four fundamental ethical principles The Principle of Respect for autonomy—- Autonomy is Latin for “self-rule” We have an obligation to respect the autonomy of other persons, which is to respect the decisions made by other people concerning their own lives. […]
Swami Vivekananda In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. May He who is the Brahman of […]
Gandhi’s Home Coming Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa on January 9, 2015. His return galvanized the Indian freedom movement. Armed with novel ideas—non-violence and civil disobedience—the “little brown man in the loincloth”, as he was described by a British commentator, brought the mighty British colonial administration to its knees and eventually secured […]
Establishment of Indian National Congress To give expression to the political aspirations of Indians and articulate their wish for participation in governance in India in order to ultimately realize the goal of self rule, the Indian National Congress was established at Bombay in 1885. The Englishman Allan Octavian Hume, a former British civil servant and W. C. Bonnerjee […]
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2022, the fourth budget of Modi 2.0 on February o1, 2022 Economy Capex target expanded by 35.4 per cent — from Rs 5.54 lakh crore to Rs 7.50 lakh crore. FY23 effective capex seen at Rs 10.7 lakh crore India’s growth highest among all major economies; […]
