India will soon launch an ambitious ‘Deep Ocean Mission’ that envisages the exploration of minerals, energy and marine diversity of the underwater… Continue Reading

Arogya Sanjeevani is a standardised health insurance policy designed by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority. Every general insurance o… Continue Reading

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health’s report on the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and its management. In Detail: The committee has stre… Continue Reading

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Context: The Chairman, National Health Authority and CEO of Ayushman Bharat has announced that the National Digital Health Mission will soon be rea… Continue Reading

In the Third India-U.S. 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue that took place in Delhi recently, the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) for Geo-Spatia… Continue Reading

Stating that it is intended to camouflage the illegal occupation of the region by Islamabad, India slammed Pakistan for its attempt to accord provinci… Continue Reading

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NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman asserted that any tariff protection to promote local manufacturing in India will come with an in-built sunset clause. Note… Continue Reading

The Election Commission (EC) revoked the status of a Congress leader as a star campaigner for the party in the ongoing State Assembly by-polls. The r… Continue Reading

Public Affairs Centre (PAC): The Public Affairs Centre (PAC) is a not-for-profit research think tank situated in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It works at i… Continue Reading

The Fifteenth Finance Commission has finalised its report for fund devolution from the Centre to States for the five years from 2021-22 to 2025-26. … Continue Reading

Owing to a provision in the Code on Wages, those indulging in sexual harassment of any form could run the risk of losing out on bonus dues from their … Continue Reading

A Division Bench has directed the J&K administration to regulate the extraction of minor minerals from water bodies and set up an expert committee to … Continue Reading

Supreme Court Judgement: Justice Kant wrote: “Society has a right to lead a peaceful and fearless life, without free-roaming criminals creating h… Continue Reading

Supreme Court Judgement: The intention to abet suicide cannot be assumed and it needs to be backed by solid, visible proof. A three-judge Bench … Continue Reading

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Official Languages Act 1963: There was widespread resistance to the imposition of Hindi on non-native speakers, especially in Tamil Nadu. This led… Continue Reading

State of India’s continental strategy India is a country that is traditionally obsessed with a continental approach to war and peace. However, I… Continue Reading

India’s fiscal deficit soared to 109% of the Budget target in just the first five months of the year (2020-21), with revenues remaining muted. Th… Continue Reading

Crime in India report 2019 has been published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Crime against women: From 2018, the rate of crime aga… Continue Reading

The move to include Australia would mark a major shift for India’s Indo-Pacific plans. Inclusion of Australia would make it the first time since 20… Continue Reading

The conflict can be traced back to the pre-Soviet era when the region was at the meeting point of the Ottoman, Russian and Persian empires. Once Azer… Continue Reading

The Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP), 2020: The new Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP), 2020 has been released. The draft was finalised by a co… Continue Reading

Land Acquisition Judgement March 2020: In March 2020, a Constitution Bench, led by Justice Arun Mishra gave out a judgement on Section 24 on land a… Continue Reading

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The Chief Minister of Punjab has appealed to farmers not to burn crop residue because the practice could make the situation worse helping COVID-19 to … Continue Reading

The call for a boycott of the elections to the district autonomous councils in Ladakh has been withdrawn in the wake of the lurking danger on the Chin… Continue Reading

The Union Government has constituted the National Medical Commission (NMC). With this, the decades-old institution of the Medical Council of India (MC… Continue Reading

Sri Lankan Prime Minister has promised Sri Lanka’s northern fisher leaders that he would take up their concern over “trespassing Indian trawlers�… Continue Reading

Out of the USD 20 billion in loans issued by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), about $6 billion has gone to India. India is one of t… Continue Reading

The affidavit, filed by the government before the tribunal said the United National Liberation Front of West of South East Asia (UNLFWSEA), had taken … Continue Reading

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has brought out a document titled the ‘Technology Vision for Cyber Security for Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs) 2020… Continue Reading

The Centre has permitted five states to borrow an additional Rs.9,913 crore through open market borrowings to meet expenditure requirements amid falli… Continue Reading

Corporates in India have got three more months of relief from the invocation of insolvency and bankruptcy (IBC) proceedings by lenders. Details: … Continue Reading

Pakistan has moved to give full provincial status to the Gilgit-Baltistan region through an election. The region earlier was known as the “Northern … Continue Reading

China has said that there are enormous divisions and a lack of consensus on taking forward the stalled reforms of the United Nations Security Council … Continue Reading

Abraham Accords: It is the first Arab-Israeli peace deal in 26 years. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have agreed to establish full diplomati… Continue Reading

Toxins in water, produced by cyanobacteria (cyanobacterial neurotoxins) killed more than 300 elephants in Botswana this year. Cyanobacteria Cyanob… Continue Reading

The bonds qualify as tier II capital of the bank. The bonds have a face value of Rs.10 lakh each, bearing a coupon rate of 6.24% per annum payable an… Continue Reading

The Lok Sabha passed the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020. The government had proposed amendments to the Foreign Contribution… Continue Reading

The Rajya Sabha passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill (IBC), 2020. The Bill replaces an Ordinance passed in June 2020. … Continue Reading

Two of the three agriculture-related legislation aimed at liberalising the farm sector have been passed by the Rajya Sabha, these legislations were ea… Continue Reading

The $1 billion World Bank loan comes with a condition of “universal eligibility” in procurements. Background: In April 2020 the World Bank�… Continue Reading

The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has told the Supreme Court to make its code of ethics against airing malicious, biased and regressive content … Continue Reading

Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) FCRA regulates foreign donations and ensures that such contributions do not adversely affect the internal … Continue Reading

The Department of Telecom has directed all telecom service providers in the country to carry out a special audit of their networks by an external agen… Continue Reading

The U.S. is keen that India sign the last foundational agreement, Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-Spatial Cooperation (BECA), at the … Continue Reading

What is Queen’s Counsel? Queen’s Counsel is a barrister or advocate, appointed Counsel to the UK Crown on the recommendation of the Lord Chance… Continue Reading

According to a Pakistani media report, Pakistan has decided to elevate the status of Gilgit-Baltistan to that of a full-fledged province with all cons… Continue Reading

The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPWD) Act, 2016 was passed by the Indian Parliament to fulfill its obligation to the United Nations Conventio… Continue Reading

Inter-State Migrant Workmen (ISMW) Act, 1979: The ISMW Act came into force four decades ago. It is meant to protect vulnerable workers who leave t… Continue Reading

The government’s decision to suspend MPLADS funds for two years has evoked mixed reactions. Arguments in favour of MPLADS scheme: Wrong notion… Continue Reading

The National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2020, proposes to clearly spell out the functions of the Council of Ministers and the Lieute… Continue Reading

A part-time member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister has suggested that India should look at selling enemy properties valued at o… Continue Reading

In the current fiscal year (2020-21), States are looking at a staggering Rs.2.35 lakh crore GST revenue shortfall.… Continue Reading

Amendments have been made to the Essential Commodities Act, new laws have been framed to bypass the State APMC Acts and to facilitate contract farming… Continue Reading

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the top diplomats of the UAE and Bahrain are to sign the deals on normalising relations. They have ag… Continue Reading

The Centre has opposed before the Delhi High Court, a petition seeking recognition of same-sex marriages. Details: The Centre argued that the In… Continue Reading

Unemployment problem in India: Employment concern and associated issues: Notably, the employment-intensive sectors like construction (–50%), t… Continue Reading

As per the data provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR) National Cancer… Continue Reading

The monsoon session of Parliament, delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to begin with strict safety protocols in place. Up to 45 Bills will… Continue Reading

The Supreme Court, in an order on 31st August 2020 had directed the removal of 48,000 slums along the railway tracks in the national capital within th… Continue Reading

The DRDO conducted a flight test of the hypersonic technology demonstrator vehicle (HSTDV) off Odisha’s coast. This HSTDV was able to fly at a hy… Continue Reading

The brain size and shape differ across ages, and across regions and ethnicities, and even within a population. While some countries have their own … Continue Reading

he licences of 13 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been suspended so far this year under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), 2… Continue Reading

A report brought out by the World Wildlife Fund notes that on average, wildlife populations dropped by 68% between 1970 and 2016. Latin America and… Continue Reading

Dhrupad music is of temple origin. Dhrupad is the oldest surviving classical style of Hindustani vocal music. Although Dhrupad consolidated its … Continue Reading

The Environment Ministry has rejected a plea from the Ministry of Mines for exemption from forest penalty The Ministry of Mines has requested an ex… Continue Reading

Five-point course of action: 1. Following the consensus between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping to not allow differences to b… Continue Reading

“Functioning of the Virtual Courts/Courts Proceedings through Video-Conferencing”.- REPORT Recommendations: The panel has argued that the tr… Continue Reading

PM CARES Fund has received an exemption from FCRA although it does not seem to meet the precondition of being a body established and owned by the gove… Continue Reading

The Supreme Court has prioritised the need to expeditiously complete trial in over 4,000 criminal cases, from corruption to money laundering, pending … Continue Reading

The Supreme Court has reached out to Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal to act as amicus curiae and assist it with legal questions raised in a contempt c… Continue Reading

Lok Sabha Speaker has said that if there is a provision for the post of Deputy Speaker in the Lok Sabha, then it was only obvious that there should be… Continue Reading

Israel is in talks with India and China on trade agreements and hopes that border tensions between the two countries would be sorted out peacefully. … Continue Reading

A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court has referred a group of petitions challenging the Maratha reservation law to a Constitution Bench. Chief Just… Continue Reading

India and Japan signed an Agreement between the two countries concerning the Reciprocal Provision of Supplies and Services between the Armed Forces of… Continue Reading

India Post launches Five Star Villages Scheme to ensure 100% rural coverage of postal schemes. The schemes covered under the Five Star scheme inclu… Continue Reading

PM to inaugurate 1.75 lakh houses built under PMAY-G in Madhya Pradesh. Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin completes three years. About the … Continue Reading

Union Minister of State for Shipping launches ‘SAROD-Ports’ (Society for Affordable Redressal of Disputes – Ports). Objectives of SAROD-Por… Continue Reading

A report on the journey of the NSTEDB in catalyzing innovation, entrepreneurship, and incubation was launched by the Secretary, Department of Science … Continue Reading

The Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme was launched in 2015 in 500 cities across India covering about 60% of the ur… Continue Reading

FICCI has urged bold and decisive action from the government to stimulate demand for India to return to a positive growth trajectory, following a 23.9… Continue Reading

India is the third-largest spender on defence around the world. A series of measures have been taken since 2014 to boost exports, including simplif… Continue Reading

Bt Cotton: It is a genetically modified cotton. It contains the pesticide gene from bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). It has now been grown in the… Continue Reading

The Election Commission of India has for a while now been toying with the idea of further digitising the electoral infrastructure of the country. In f… Continue Reading

Recently, Israel and the UAE agreed to a historic deal normalising relations and are scheduled to sign it at a White House ceremony in September 2020.… Continue Reading

NSO released the findings of the survey on household social consumption related to education, as part of the NSO’s 75th round, conducted from July 2… Continue Reading

The ‘Health in India’ report by the National Statistical Organisation (NSO) has been published. The report is based on the 75th round of the Na… Continue Reading

The Supreme Court has ordered the Centre to adhere to a Union Road Ministry circular of March 2018. The circular had advised against building full-… Continue Reading

Money as a factor in elections: 1. The issue of funding political parties and elections. 2. Money has become an important factor deciding the winn… Continue Reading

Acc. to CARE rating agency, the pandemic-stricken states have borrowed a whopping Rs.2.97 lakh crore so far this financial year, which is as much as 5… Continue Reading

Fitch Ratings projected the global GDP to contract 4.4% for 2020-21 but revised upwards China’s growth estimate to 2.7% for 2020. Fitch has slash… Continue Reading

There are fresh tensions between India and China on the south bank of Pangong Tso (lake). Hours after the Chinese Army claimed that Indian troops o… Continue Reading

Gross under-investment: The 2014 National Youth Policy (NYP) defines youth as persons between 15 and 29 years. According to this definition, the yo… Continue Reading

A Government Security (G-Sec) is a tradeable instrument issued by the Central Government or the State Governments. It acknowledges the Government’s … Continue Reading

The RBI has specified five financial ratios and sector-specific thresholds for resolution of COVID-19 related stressed assets in 26 sectors, including… Continue Reading

The Prime Minister asserted that the government’s intervention in the education policy should be minimal. He said that the education policy and t… Continue Reading

Kesavananda Bharati was the chief pontiff of the Edneer Mutt, a monastic religious institution located in Kasaragod district, Kerala. Bharati had some… Continue Reading

The United Nations is steering an initiative called the Financing for Development in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond, to articulate a comprehensive fin… Continue Reading

The PM laid out a vision of making India a manufacturing hub at the heart of global supply chains. The pitch comes in the backdrop of the governmen… Continue Reading

Stress in the power sector: Surplus capacity: Several states have installed capacity that is far in excess of actual requirements. Despite havi… Continue Reading

The Indian Council for Historical research (ICHR) has constituted a three-member committee to review the entries in the book Dictionary of Martyrs: In… Continue Reading

Recent scientific studies point to a connection between the end of the Green Sahara and this mega-drought. As the Sahara started losing its vegetat… Continue Reading

In the emerging security paradigm, the CDS has emphasized the need to look beyond India’s border security and the need to also focus on the strategi… Continue Reading

Typhoon Maysak had made landfall in North Korea and is said to have caused large scale destruction and fatalities. A typhoon is a tropical cyclone … Continue Reading

Ease of Doing Business (EODB) is a joint initiative by the DPIIT and the World Bank to improve the overall business environment in the States. Thes… Continue Reading

The Road Transport and Highways Minister speaking at the annual session of the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA) have ask… Continue Reading

The U.S. administration has announced sanctions, including asset freezes and visa bans against two officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC)… Continue Reading

Attributing the shortfall in GST collections to disruptions due to Covid-19, the Finance Minister said the economy is facing an "Act-of-God"-like situ… Continue Reading

The Indian government has banned 59 + 118 China-based apps including one of the most popular mobile games PUBG Mobile. It was banned under section … Continue Reading

City Gas Distribution (CGD) entities are likely to save on penalties for work delays triggered by the pandemic. The fundamental norm of the law of … Continue Reading

The altered guidelines include funding to segments including start-ups and agriculture. Bank finance of up to Rs.50 crore to start-ups, loans to fa… Continue Reading

UN human rights experts have told China, a new security law for Hong Kong infringes on certain fundamental rights and voiced concerns that it could be… Continue Reading

The ‘State of the Young Child’ in India report was launched by Mr. M. VENKAIAH NAIDU Two indices have been released as a part of the ‘State o… Continue Reading

The deletion of ‘Question Hour’ provision in the forthcoming monsoon session of the Parliament. The Unstarred Questions will continue to be rec… Continue Reading

A group of Special Rapporteurs to the United Nations has written to the Centre expressing concern over the proposed Environment Impact Assessment (EIA… Continue Reading

Indian Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat has said that India has a strategy prepared to fight off the dual-threat posed by neighbours Pakista… Continue Reading

News: The Lok Sabha Secretariat has released the schedule for the monsoon Parliament session. In view of the pandemic and a truncated Monsoon Ses… Continue Reading

India has been ranked 48th in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2020 as per the GII 2020 Report jointly published by Cornell, INSEAD and World Intelle… Continue Reading

3rd Annual Leadership Summit of the USISPF. The theme of the 5-day Summit is “US-India Navigating New Challenges”. Details: The US-India … Continue Reading

The Union Cabinet approved Mission Karmayogi for civil servants across India to help them meet the challenges of society. Mission Karmayogi: Mis… Continue Reading

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said civil rights lawyer Prashant Bhushan’s conviction for criminal contempt of court by the Supreme C… Continue Reading

Turkey favours a dialogue with rival Greece that would lead to the fair sharing of resources in the eastern Mediterranean, where the two countries are… Continue Reading

Gaza’s Hamas rulers said that they have reached an agreement through international mediators to end the latest round of cross-border violence with I… Continue Reading

The number of suicide cases and accidental deaths registered an increase across the country last year from the 2018 figures. The suicide rate in citi… Continue Reading

The Privy Purse was used as a conciliatory move to get the princely state rulers to surrender their sovereignty to the Indian union. As defined from … Continue Reading

The Gopalakrishnan Committee: The committee was set up in 2019 and is referred to as the Expert Committee on Non-Personal Data Governance Framework… Continue Reading

The data released by the National Statistical Office, India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has suffered its steepest contraction on record in the Ap… Continue Reading

A rare inscription dating back to the Renati Chola era has been unearthed in a remote village of Kadapa district in Andhra Pradesh. Renati Cholas: … Continue Reading

A data released by the National Statistical Office(NSO), the GDP of India has shrunk by a record 23.9% in the April to June 2020 quarter in comparison… Continue Reading

Flaws in the current GST system: The current design and implementation of the GST system have failed to deliver on the promise of enhanced economic… Continue Reading

India’s fiscal deficit in the four months to end July 2020 stood at 103.1% of the budgeted target for FY21. Net tax receipts were Rs.2.03 trillio… Continue Reading

Environment Performance Index: India secured the 168th rank out of 180 countries in the 12th edition of the biennial Environment Performance Index … Continue Reading

In August 2020, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) had approved Green term ahead market (GTAM) contracts on the Indian Energy Exchan… Continue Reading

Australia-India-Japan Ministers’ meeting on Supply Chains Resilience held. Details: The Ministers reaffirmed their determination to take a lea… Continue Reading

The discovery was made by a team of astronomers led by Dr Kanak Saha from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) Pune. … Continue Reading

In the letter, Pakistan’s Ambassador sought to portray Pakistan as a victim of cross-border terrorism. It was claimed that Pakistan is responsible … Continue Reading

Inclusive Education: Inclusion is a theme of the Policy beyond technology as well. As per the Ministry, under NEP, efforts will be made to incenti… Continue Reading

The United States has blacklisted 24 Chinese companies. The U.S. Commerce Department said the 24 companies played a role in helping the Chinese mil… Continue Reading

Pulikkali, or tiger dance will go online on the fourth day of Onam. Pulikkali: Pulikkali, or tiger dance, is a colourful part of Onam celebratio… Continue Reading

India will approach the UN Security Council President to bring to his notice a series of false claims levelled by Pakistan on terrorism, in one of the… Continue Reading

In India, while self-interest and national glory dominate, concern for distributive justice is rare. Given the compulsion to advance our self-inter… Continue Reading

In an agreement brokered by the U.S., Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to establish full diplomatic relations. Details: For… Continue Reading

Public health groups, along with doctors and economists, have urged the GST Council to increase compensation cess on all tobacco products. Pros: … Continue Reading

China has launched the first of the four advanced naval warships it is building for Pakistan. Pakistan had signed a contract with the China Shipbui… Continue Reading

Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) It is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre… Continue Reading

The Government of India, (Government of Maharashtra), Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) signed a lo… Continue Reading

The Delimitation Commission is a high-level body set up by an act of Parliament to carry out the delimitation process, that is, fixing limits or bound… Continue Reading

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered the conversion of the Kariye Museum into a mosque. It was originally converted into the Kariye M… Continue Reading

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in his first address, has declared his intention to repeal the landmark 19th Amendment to the Constitution, a… Continue Reading

Punjab’s viewpoint on the issue of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, given Punjab’s critical groundwater situation. Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) … Continue Reading

Aarogya Setu introduces ‘Open API Service’. This is a novel feature in the app to help people, businesses and the economy to return to normalcy… Continue Reading

NEWS: Utilization of excess sugarcane for ethanol production to improve the viability of the sugar industry. Details: The government has taken … Continue Reading

The Budget Speech of 2020 proposed the setting up of a task force to look into the issue of age of a girl entering motherhood to help lower maternal m… Continue Reading

Indore wins cleanest city title again For the fourth year in a row, Indore has been ranked the cleanest city in the country, according to the Swach… Continue Reading

Russia has recently announced the world’s first vaccine to combat COVID-19, named Sputnik V. The vaccine is based on the principle of using adeno… Continue Reading

The World Bank had, previously in May 2020, projected that the Indian economy would contract by 3.2% in the current fiscal year and would only rebound… Continue Reading

National Recruitment Agency (NRA) was created for conducting a Common Eligibility Test (CET) for various government jobs. Initially, three of the o… Continue Reading

According to the Digital Quality of Life Report, India ranks among the lowest in the world in terms of Internet quality. India occupies 79th pla… Continue Reading

Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2020 IIT- Madras has topped the ARIIA 2020 under the ‘Best Centrally Funded Insti… Continue Reading

Gs2- Education- New educational policy-Issue of autonomy in NEP Arguments in favour of the provision: The concerns of over-centralisation, leadi… Continue Reading

NEWS: Union Tribal Affairs Minister to launch Swasthya Portal. About the Swasthya Portal: The online portal will act as a one-stop solution p… Continue Reading

NEWS: Defence Minister launches indigenisation portal SRIJAN. About SRIJAN: SRIJAN is the Ministry of Defence’s portal which acts as a one-… Continue Reading

NEWS: Chandrayaan 2 Orbiter has captured the Moon images of “Sarabhai” Crater – ISRO About Sarabhai Crater: Named after eminent Indian sc… Continue Reading

NEWS: Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Rajesh Verma released the “Report of the Committee on Business Responsibility Reporting (BRR)” from … Continue Reading

NEWS: The Foundation for Reproductive Health Services India (FRHSI) indicated a severe shortage of medical abortion (MA) drugs in five out of the s… Continue Reading

GS2- IR - The need for a new foreign policy roadmap in India Reasons 1.Relations with neighbours are under strain 2.We are losing the strategic e… Continue Reading

GS3- Environmental Impact Assessment- Issues with ignoring environmental concerns. Issues with draft EIA : UAPA usage upon criticism MAINS QUEST… Continue Reading

Gs3- Conservation- Issues with Project tiger Does india emphasize more on tiger conservation at the cost of others? Prelims info : 1) Global … Continue Reading

NEWS: As a part of Israel-India cooperation to fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, AIIMS, Delhi, has received state-of-the-art AI-based technologi… Continue Reading

NEWS: Prakash Javadekar, MoEFCC launched the booklet on “Best practices of Human-Elephant Conflict Management in India” to strengthen coexistence… Continue Reading

NEWS: 1.5 lakh tele-consultations completed through ‘eSanjeevani’ and ‘eSanjeevaniOPD’. About the National Teleconsultation Service: … Continue Reading

NEWS: The Supreme Court has expanded a Hindu woman’s right to be a joint legal heir and inherit ancestral property on terms equal to male heirs. … Continue Reading

Atma Nirbhar Week celebration (Atmanirbharta Saptah) between August 7-14, 2020 of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and to boost Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhi… Continue Reading

NEWS: The Defence Ministry announced a list of 101 items that it will stop importing. Items included in the negative list The items mentioned in … Continue Reading

NEWS: M.K. Narayanan, a former National Security Adviser, analyzes India’s approach to isolate China as a countermeasure to China’s military aggr… Continue Reading

Balance of Payments: The balance of payments (BOP) is a statement of all transactions made between entities in one country and the rest of the worl… Continue Reading

NEWS: According to official data, the nationwide lockdown had a significant negative impact on inpatient care utilisation under the Pradhan Mantri … Continue Reading

NEWS The release of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation due to the States for the financial year 2019-20. Compensation cess fund A comp… Continue Reading

What is Loya Jirga? A loya jirga is a special type of jirga, or legal assembly, in Pashtunwali, the traditional code of laws of the Pashtun people.… Continue Reading

Issues with the concept of contempt: The C-O-C is a centuries-old British law which was abolished in 2013, this was mainly to hide judicial corrupt… Continue Reading

NEWS: India has refused a request by Pakistan to hold a meeting on issues around the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) . DETAILS: According to the terms o… Continue Reading

Context: PM to launch a financing facility under Agriculture Infrastructure Fund and release benefits under PM-KISAN. Details: The Union Cabi… Continue Reading

E-Sanjeevani is a platform-independent, browser-based application facilitating both doctor-to-doctor and patient-to-doctor tele-consultations. NEWS… Continue Reading

NEWS: Landslide in Idukki district of Kerala has claimed 22 lives thus far and rendered several families homeless. DETAILS: Heavy rainfall in Kera… Continue Reading

Quick Tips: Have hot/warm water entire day .… Continue Reading

India-European Union Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation renewed for next five years (2020-2025) In the last 5 years, 73 joint re… Continue Reading

Context: MoCA set up Investment Clearance Cell for Assistance & Clearance of Proposals in Aviation Sector; Headed by Amber Dubey. Details: *The … Continue Reading

Details: Indian Navy hold PASSEX with World’s largest aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in Indian Ocean Region. Context: *Indian naval ships conduct… Continue Reading

Context: Prakash Javadekar hails KURMA mobile app as unique tool for conservation of Indian Turtles. Details: *Union Minister of Environment, Fo… Continue Reading

Context:PM SVANidhi app launched to provide micro-credit facility for street vendors at their door steps. Details: *A mobile application of PM S… Continue Reading

Context: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attended 3rd G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting virtually. Details: *Union Mi… Continue Reading

Context: UN’s Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: India Record Largest Reduction in Number of People Living in Poverty. Details: *273 milli… Continue Reading

Context: Centre’s fiscal deficit to increase to 7.6% & India’s GDP to contract by 5.3% in FY21: India Ratings and Research’s Report. Details:… Continue Reading

Context: Collaborative citizen science initiative provides database, helps identify species and lists rescue centres. Details: *The application,… Continue Reading

Context: Dharmendra Pradhan & Dan Brouillette co-chaired 2nd Meeting of India-US Strategic Energy Partnership virtually. Details: * Union Mini… Continue Reading

Context:Why is India out of the Chabahar rail project? Details: *State-owned Ircon International Limited was associated with the rail project ev… Continue Reading

Context:India Established Individual Bilateral ‘Air Bubbles’ with France, Germany and US. Details: *India has established individual bilater… Continue Reading

Context:ICRA projects Indian economy to contract 9.5% in 2020-’21, cites rising coronavirus cases, lockdown. Details: *Rating agency ICRA on T… Continue Reading

Context: Customs unravels hawala trail in Kerala gold smuggling case. Details: *The Customs Department on Friday moved to track down the network… Continue Reading

Context: Details: *The University Grants Commission’s guidelines of July 6, 2020 on conducting final-year examinations for university students… Continue Reading

Context:India’s CERT and Israel’s INCD inked MoU to expand cooperation in cyber security. Details: *The COVID-19 pandemic has not only impac… Continue Reading

Context:NTPC signs MoU with NIIF to Explore Business Opportunities in Renewable Energy in India. Details: *NTPC Ltd has recently entered into a… Continue Reading

Context:NTPC signs MoU with NIIF to Explore Business Opportunities in Renewable Energy in India. Details: *NTPC Ltd has recently entered into a… Continue Reading

Context:NTPC signs MoU with NIIF to Explore Business Opportunities in Renewable Energy in India. Details: *NTPC Ltd has recently entered into a… Continue Reading

NITI Aayog presented India’s 2nd Voluntary National Review at UN’s High-Level Political Forum; held virtually * NITI Aayog presented India’s … Continue Reading

Context:NSDC Collaborates with Microsoft India to Provide Digital Skills to Indian Yout. Details: * The National Skill Development Corporation (… Continue Reading

Context: US formally notified UN of its Decision to Withdraw from WHO,Serves Notice Period till July 6, 2021. Details: *The United States has fo… Continue Reading

Context: Bharat Dynamics Limited signs LAToT of Akash Missile Weapon System with DRDO. Details: *Bharat Dynamics Limited signed Licence Agreeme… Continue Reading

Context: Maharashtra CM, Uddhav Thackeray E-Inaugurates NM1, Yotta Data Centre Near Mumbai World’s 2nd Largest & Asia’s Largest Data Centre. De… Continue Reading

Context: Prakash Javadekar Participated in 4th edition of the Ministerial on Climate Action, held virtually. Details: *The fourth edition of the… Continue Reading

Context: SBM Bank India Partnered with Mastercard to facilitate Real-time domestic & cross-border payments & remittances through ‘Mastercard Send’… Continue Reading

Context: India-Afghanistan inked 5 MoUs for development of educational infrastructure in Afghanistan. Details: *The five memorandums of understa… Continue Reading

Context: DRDO to establish a research cell at IIT-H to meet the future defence technological requirements . Details: *Defence Research and Devel… Continue Reading

Context: Indian Railways Sets up Solar Plant in Bina, MP & Becomes the 1st Organization in the World to Directly Supply Power to Railway Overhead Line… Continue Reading

Context: Amid demand surge, 1.4 lakh families have reached annual MGNREGA work limit. Details: * 1.4 lakh poor rural households have already com… Continue Reading

Context: Amid demand surge, 1.4 lakh families have reached annual MGNREGA work limit. Details: * 1.4 lakh poor rural households have already com… Continue Reading

Context:President Ram Nath Kovind Inaugurates Dharma Chakra Day 2020 Celebrations On July 4. Details: *July 4 , 2020, President of India Shri Ra… Continue Reading

Context:NLC, Coal India to form 50:50 JV to develop solar and thermal power assets. Details: *Government-owned mining majors NLC India Ltd and C… Continue Reading

Context:M.V Asiatic Moon : A New Shipping Service b/w Kolkata Port & Chattogram Begins to Ease Indo-Bangla Trade. Details: * A new shipping serv… Continue Reading

Context:Tourism Sector Could Lose 1.2 Trillion USD Due To Covid Pandemic: UNCTAD Report. Details: *The United Nations Conference on Trade and De… Continue Reading

Context:Record 53.6 mt of E-waste Dumped Globally in 2019; China Tops: UN Global E-waste Monitor 2020 Report. Details: *In accordance with “Th… Continue Reading

Context:Record 53.6 mt of E-waste Dumped Globally in 2019; China Tops: UN Global E-waste Monitor 2020 Report. Details: *In accordance with “Th… Continue Reading

Context:In accordance with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, India’s external debt stood at USD558.5 billion in March 2020, an increase of USD15… Continue Reading

Context:India to accept and abide international tribunal’s ruling. Details: *The 'Enrica Lexie' Incident *The arbitral proceedings were ins… Continue Reading

Context:77.9% Russians Grant Putin Right to Extend His Rule Until 2036. Details: *Russians opened the door to Vladimir Putin staying in power un… Continue Reading

Context:Union Power Minister R. Singh addresses a virtual conference with Power Ministers of States and UTs on July 3, 2020. Details: *Union Pow… Continue Reading

Context:The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has granted approval to Bharat Biotech to conduct human clinical trials for ‘Covaxin… Continue Reading

Context: Details: * The Defence Acquisition Council , chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on Thursday approved deals worth Rs38,900 crore… Continue Reading

Context: Bid to turn Shivalik forest into tiger reserve. Details: *The Saharanpur Divisional Commissioner has sent a proposal to the State gover… Continue Reading

Context:The Commerce Ministry’s provisional figures for the core sector for May 2020. Details: *Output in the eight core industries suffered a… Continue Reading

Context:India will be back in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for a two-year term beginning January 1, 2021 at a critical time in the histo… Continue Reading

Context: Committee for reform in criminal law headed by Ranbir Singh to start online consultation from July 4, 2020: MHA. Details: *The Ministry… Continue Reading

Context: Indian marine fish landings rose 2.1% to 3.56mt in 2019: CMFRI,Tamil Nadu tops . Details: *In accordance with the report “Annual Mari… Continue Reading

Context:India, Japan Hold PASSEX Naval Exercise to Promote Understanding in Indian Ocean. Details: *In order to promote mutual understanding, In… Continue Reading

Context:PM announced extension of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana till November, 2020. Details: *PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced th… Continue Reading

Context: The UNFPA has released State of the World Population 2020 report. Details: *The Preference for sons and gender-biased sex selection ha… Continue Reading

Context:The 600 MW Kholongchhu project is one of four additional projects agreed to in 2008. Details: *The project’s “Concession agreement,�… Continue Reading

Context: Russia begins discreet moves to defuse India-China tension. Details: *Russian diplomatic sources say that Moscow has “high stakes” … Continue Reading

Context:child excavated as part of Keeladi’s 6th phase excavation. Details: *Skeletal remains of a child were excavated from Konthagai village… Continue Reading

Context: The deaths of at least 20 Indian soldiers, and reports of Chinese soldier casualties in clashes at the Galwan valley in Ladakh. Details: … Continue Reading

Context:About China’s legendary revolutionary leader Mao Zedong’s five finger policy Details: Three-pronged foreign policy approach: Mana… Continue Reading

Context:RBI to tighten rules for home finance firms. Details: *The Reserve Bank of India has proposed stringent norms for housing finance compan… Continue Reading

Context:SEBI has further eased fund-raising norms for firms. Details: *These measures along with the relaxation on rights issues, permitted earl… Continue Reading

Context:Assessment of OIL well blowout impact on environment begins. Details: *A team of The Energy and Research Institute and an accredited pri… Continue Reading

Context:The solution to the present crisis between the North and the South caused by the incompetence and irresponsibility of the South Korean authori… Continue Reading

Context:What makes the current stand-offs different is China’s readiness to use force in addressing challenges. Details: *This sharp turn mark… Continue Reading

Context:A Division Bench of Justices Sunil Shukre and Anil Kilor was hearing a petition filed by one Kirti Nipankar, raising concerns over the lake wa… Continue Reading

Context:Guwahati redefines the term “urban jungle” with 334 and counting free-ranging faunal species living in the green spaces within concrete st… Continue Reading

Context:The public sector banks have disbursed Rs16,031.39 crore till June 12, 2020, under the Rs3-lakh crore Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (… Continue Reading

Context:The suspension of the MPLADS for 2020-21 and 2021-22 in the wake of the pandemic has done away with this vital role of MPs. Details: *As… Continue Reading

Context: The changing dynamics of the India- Nepal relations and argues for a changed perspective for the relation. Details: *Benaras was a keys… Continue Reading

Context:Dexamethasone is the first drug to be shown to improve survival in COVID-19. Details: *Based on these results, one death would be preven… Continue Reading

Context:Elections for five non-permanent seats of the UN Security Council . Details: *India expects to sail through as the 193-member United Nat… Continue Reading

Context:Accusing the Chinese troops of “attempting to unilaterally change the status quo” in the Galwan valley. Details: *Accusing the Chine… Continue Reading

Context:New pipeline tariff, authorisation policy to push for higher share of gas in energy basket. Details: *In a bid to raise the share of nat… Continue Reading

Context:In pandemic crisis, bridging the gulf with West Asia. Details: *India’s Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar has said that India… Continue Reading

Context:In pandemic crisis, bridging the gulf with West Asia. Details: *India’s Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar has said that India… Continue Reading

Context: Remaining non-aligned is good advice. Details: *Confirmed facts about incursions during May are that Chinese forces came in sizeable n… Continue Reading

Context:A performance of the variant of Yakshagana theatre was streamed live on social media. Details: *The traditional art of ‘talamaddale’… Continue Reading

Context: India and Nepal need to move quickly to reverse the recent setback to ties. Details: *The Nepal government’s decision to pass the con… Continue Reading

Context:India is unique among democracies in that a constitutional right to equality is not backed by comprehensive legislation. Details: Voice… Continue Reading

Context: MSMEs wait for work as demand slumps post lockdown Pandemic. Details: *In the economic package for MSMEs, one of the major casualties… Continue Reading

Context: Supreme Court to continue virtual court system. Details: *A committee of seven Supreme Court judges, led by Justice N. Ramana, has de… Continue Reading

context: Can a COVID-19 vaccine be developed soon? Details: *A vaccine could be a weakened biological or synthetic agent administered to humans… Continue Reading

Context: Persistent global transmission of chikungunya from India. Details: *The resurgence of chikungunya virus in India in 2005, the Indian su… Continue Reading

Context: Participant enrolment to hydroxychloroquine arm was stopped with immediate effect. Details: *The RECOVERY trial, a large randomised con… Continue Reading

Context: The long border between the two Asian countries has neither been delineated nor demarcated. Details: What is LAC? *The Line of Actu… Continue Reading

context:Nepal unveiled the new map on May 20 after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated Darchula-Lipulekh link road on May 8. Details: * Ne… Continue Reading

Context: A model based on social distancing only ends up weakening the concept of a classroom being an essential laboratory. Details: *What we h… Continue Reading

Context: Uddhav Thackeray unveils Mumbai’s new flood warning system, calls it a boon. Details: *The flood warning system called IFLOWS-Mumbai,… Continue Reading

Context: Uddhav Thackeray unveils Mumbai’s new flood warning system, calls it a boon. Details: *The flood warning system called IFLOWS-Mumbai,… Continue Reading

Context: Poll on dark web shows 80% of respondents expressed interest in buying access to hacked accounts. Details: *As of December 2019, India… Continue Reading

Context: Government puts off decision on States' GST dues till July Details: *GST collections in the past two months have only reached 45% of th… Continue Reading

Content: Lockdown wages, Supreme Court allows firms to negotiate with staff. Details: *The Supreme Court on Friday asked factory owners and othe… Continue Reading

Context: Beijing think-tank links scrapping of Article 370 to LAC tensions. Details: *The article 370 allowed the state a certain amount of aut… Continue Reading

Details: The next G7 summit, tentatively scheduled in Washington DC in mid-June, has been postponed by the host, U.S . Logic of expansion: Tr… Continue Reading

Details: A news channel in India alleged recently that several private hospitals in the country were “exposed” by a “sting operation” to be… Continue Reading

Details: The Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change has issued an advisory saying people importing “exotic live species” will have t… Continue Reading

Details: During 2015, the baseline was 523 lions. Moreover, the distribution of the lions expanded from 22,000 sq. As soon as the State shared the … Continue Reading

Details: Its Article 1 states, “The boundary of Sikkim and Tibet shall be the crest of the mountain range separating the waters flowing into the … Continue Reading

Details: Although the latest news on the Ladakh front suggests that Chinese and Indian forces have begun to disengage in select areas, this does no… Continue Reading

Details: On May 12, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon Indians to be “vocal for local”. The way in which we, as citizens and professional… Continue Reading

Details: In what is prima facie suspected to be an act of cyber terrorism from Pakistan, the official email ids of seven employees of an Indian Pub… Continue Reading

Details: Chinese side removed some of the tents and some troops and vehicles have been moved back, and the Indian side too has reciprocated,” off… Continue Reading

Details: Mr. Singh, Secretary, Department of Water Resources, Union Ministry of Jal Sakthi, asked the Chairpersons of the Krishna and Godavari Rive… Continue Reading

Details: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said migrant workers should not be prosecuted for trying to reach home amid the national lockdown. A Bench… Continue Reading

Details: The news last week about a pregnant elephant having her mouth blown caused outrage on social media. It’s impossible not to empathise wit… Continue Reading

Details: Here, we propose certain policy options to leverage private sector resources for testing, hospitalisation, procurement of biomedical equip… Continue Reading

Details: The United Nations defines this body of water as the Persian Gulf. There is a commonality of interest among them in being major producers … Continue Reading

Details: The Odisha government is coming up with three mega educational complexes exclusively for tribal students, where both academic and sporting… Continue Reading

Details: Given the domestic political situation inside China, can the leadership afford to go back to status quo, asks Mr. Ranade, a former Additio… Continue Reading

Details: India has firmly conveyed its demand to China for restoring the status quo as existed in April along the border during the senior military… Continue Reading

Details: Google, they claim, “accomplishes its surreptitious tracking” through near ubiquitous tools such as Google Analytics, Google Ad Manage… Continue Reading

Details: As per the NSO, real GDP in the full fiscal year was estimated to have expanded by 4.2% from a year earlier, the slowest pace of growth in… Continue Reading

Details: It points out that reports of poaching for consumption and local trade have more than doubled during lockdown. The report, however, mentio… Continue Reading

Details: The results were published in the Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders. In all, 254 districts have a “very high level” of diabete… Continue Reading

Details: The Pangong Tso lake in Leh district of Ladakh, where large numbers of Chinese troops have moved in. Indian and Chinese officers meet at M… Continue Reading

Details: The Pangong Tso lake in Leh district of Ladakh, where large numbers of Chinese troops have moved in. Indian and Chinese officers meet at M… Continue Reading

Details: Since May 15, the National Center for Seismology has recorded seven small earthquakes, ranging from 1.8 to 4.5 on the Richter scale, with … Continue Reading

Details: Social bubbles: Micro-communities that could contain spread of Covid-19. Research published by the London School of Economics and Polit… Continue Reading

Details: Medicines are among humanity’s greatest achievements. They have helped attain dramatic improvements in health and longevity as well as h… Continue Reading

Details: RBI will make an initial contribution of Rs250 crore to the PIDF, covering half of the fund, while the remaining contribution will be from… Continue Reading

Details: With economic growth expected to be in the negative territory for the current financial year, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta D… Continue Reading

Details: India will highlight international terrorism, United Nations reforms and Security Council expansion, streamlining the world body’s peace… Continue Reading

Details: These military to military talks will ensure that there is no escalation on the ground between the two sides. But resolution is not going … Continue Reading

UPSC Civil Services Examinations 2020 dates announced. Check the new schedule The UPSC Civil Services and IFS preliminary examinations will now be … Continue Reading

Details: The Swiss cheese model is associated with accident investigation in an organisation or a system. These layers are visualised in the model … Continue Reading

Details: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a state of emergency and criticised a subsidiary of metals giant Norilsk Nickel afte… Continue Reading

Details: Whether the booby-trapped pineapple that took its life was intended for elephants or other animals matters little, because such traps litt… Continue Reading

Details: Justice Bhushan said there were two issues in the case. One, whether interest should be charged at all during the moratorium period. Two,… Continue Reading

Details: Flooding caused by the south-west monsoon led to 26 lakh displacements, while Cyclone Fani alone led to 18 lakh displacements, followed by… Continue Reading

Details: Indulging in Tablighi activities will attract a penalty of USD500 fine. The amended guidelines read, “foreign nationals granted any t… Continue Reading

Details: No talks on China: The summit came amidst tensions between India and China over the standoff at the Line of Actual Control, and Austral… Continue Reading

Details: Exactly 15 years after Manmohan Singh, as Congress Prime Minister, openly spoke against the free power supply scheme for farmers, the Bhar… Continue Reading

Details: Dismissing the current configuration of the “Group of Seven” or G-7 of the world’s most developed nations as “outdated”, U.S Pre… Continue Reading

Details: The Canadian Parliament had its first lockdown meeting towards the end of April, with roughly 280 of the 338 Members of Parliament attendi… Continue Reading

Details: It said the Rs50 crore in compensation, deposited by the company, would be spent on restoration. It also constituted a committee to prepar… Continue Reading

Details: To ramp up infrastructure along the China border, the Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to spend 10% funds of a Centrally sponsored sch… Continue Reading

Details: Special arrangement: At its meeting on Wednesday, the Cabinet also approved ordinances to remove restrictions on farmers selling their … Continue Reading

Details: How can India contain the economic impact of COVID-19? This will make India a more investor-friendly destination and we will also hand-… Continue Reading

Details: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bhutan for cooperation in the field of env… Continue Reading

Details: The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday released former IAS officer and J&K People’s Movement (JKPM) party leader Shah Faesal … Continue Reading

Details: The police have taken enormous risks during the lockdown to ensure strict observance of guidelines, including physical distancing, which i… Continue Reading

Details: The monsoon has finally set in over Kerala in keeping with the textbook date of June 1. In May, the IMD had forecast a four-day delay in t… Continue Reading

Details: To benefit from global change, countries must have a bold vision and make the right strategic choice. Britain quickly built the largest mi… Continue Reading

Details: NCRA scientists discovered tiny radio flashes: While we have not seen the magnetic explosions, these weak radio flashes that we have di… Continue Reading

Details: Modest success: Stating that India had been able to achieve “modest success” in electronics manufacturing, Mr. Prasad said that Ind… Continue Reading

Details: A proposed firing range for the Border Security Force has become the trigger for unrest in northern Tripura’s Kanchanpur Subdivision ove… Continue Reading

Details: Evolutionary similarities: “Epidemiological assessments suggest that the common ancestor emerged in the month of February 2020 and po… Continue Reading

Details: China under the multi-billion-dollar CPEC will set up a 1,124-megawatt power project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir despite India’s object… Continue Reading

Details: President Donald Trump on Tuesday invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the next G-7 summit to be hosted by the U.S Presidency of the Gr… Continue Reading

Details: Maximum City on red alert as cyclone set to make landfall near Alibaug. All activity that was set to resume from Wednesday in the State… Continue Reading

Details: India’s economy is in a severe slowdown that is only going to get worse in a pandemic-stricken world. Three months after Finance Ministr… Continue Reading

Details: ” The Bhuj earthquake in 2001. A few days after the Kutch earthquake in January 2001, I was ringing the doorbell at Arthur C. Clarke’s… Continue Reading

Details: Such conditions have meant that Africa’s cycle of chronic external aid dependence continues. Africa needs medical protective equipment a… Continue Reading

Details: The idea of a social stock exchange for listing of social enterprise and voluntary organisations was mooted by Finance Minister Nirmala Si… Continue Reading

Details: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Monday approved Rs50,000 crore equity infusion for micro, small, and medium enterprises with … Continue Reading

Details: The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on Monday launched a micro-credit scheme for street vendors, which was announced by Finance Mini… Continue Reading

Details: Among cereals, the government increased the support price of bajra by Rs150 to Rs2,150 per quintal for this year, while that of ragi has b… Continue Reading

Details: The monsoon has arrived in Kerala, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday. This is four days earlier than what the IMD had for… Continue Reading

Details: The ‘Unlock 1’ plan should ensure a careful restarting of activities, the most important of which is the delivery of goods and everyda… Continue Reading

Details: The ongoing crisis is creating changes that could end up dividing society into pre- and post-COVID-19 days. These giants, all technology c… Continue Reading

Details: He said they completly ignored non-chemical measures. Chaudhary said a number of effective non-chemical remedies were suggested by experts… Continue Reading

Details: During a reality check, it was found that some had found alternative jobs, while in some cases even graduates have turned to MNREGA for he… Continue Reading

Details: The IMD has indicated that the monsoon is likely to set in over Kerala early this week though other agencies say it has already set in. Cu… Continue Reading

Details: In August 1950, one of Australia’s most celebrated jurists, Sir Owen Dixon wrote to his daughter, Anne, in Melbourne that Delhi was “a… Continue Reading

Details: What does it say? They have targeted Republicans, Conservatives & the President of the United States. Trump May 29, 2020 “At the same… Continue Reading

Details: On May 27, District Forest Officer Nandani Salaria and Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board -Kakinada Executive Engineer A. “On the si… Continue Reading

Details: India’s economic growth slipped to 3. 1% in the January-March quarter of 2019-20 showing impact of COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019-20, the In… Continue Reading

Details: A two-judge bench of the court comprising Chief Justice J. Satyanarayana Murthy directed the government to reinstate Mr. Ramesh Kumar as S… Continue Reading

Details: Uncertainty clouds the monsoon’s arrival over Kerala. Once the monsoon season sets in, there’s a certain uncertainty too in all weathe… Continue Reading

Details: Africa’s rich natural resources, long-term economic potential, youthful demography and influence as a bloc of 54 countries in multi-late… Continue Reading

Details: Again in 2007, China’s perception of the border in Depsang in the Ladakh sector, in Sikkim, and in many other places appeared to change.… Continue Reading

Details: Lawyers have challenged in the Supreme Court a law which makes Hindi the official language in courts in Haryana. Their petition contends t… Continue Reading

Details: A large number of migrant workers are still seen proceeding on foot to different places”. When Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta wondered a… Continue Reading

Details: Just last week, eastern India was battered by one of the most powerful cyclones in decades and now, even as hundreds of lives are lost eve… Continue Reading

Details: Today, India is a leading producer of a variety of agricultural and allied produce and exporter of some of them. This is due to the relent… Continue Reading

Details: The Reserve Bank of India is likely to allow banks to assign zero risk weight for loans that will be extended to the micro, medium and sma… Continue Reading

Details: Surveys show the presence of the Charru mussel in the Kadinamkulam, Paravur, Edava-Nadayara, Ashtamudi, Kayamkulam, Vembanad, Chettuva and… Continue Reading

Details: The threat of locusts, which have invaded vast swathes of land in Rajasthan and entered neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, is bigger this year i… Continue Reading

Details: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared on Wednesday that Hong Kong no longer enjoys the autonomy promised by Beijing, stripping the finan… Continue Reading

Details: A proposed security law could allow Chinese mainland authorities to set up shop in Hong Kong, but their powers would likely be restricted … Continue Reading

Details: Sharma Oli came as the Nepalese government gave more time to the main Opposition Nepali Congress to discuss a proposed amendment to the Co… Continue Reading

Details: A tribal farmer will find it difficult to make it to the district headquarters, said Milind Thatte, of Vayam, which works with tribals in … Continue Reading

Details: In the post-COVID world, countries and tech giants should be obligated to share data in the larger interest of mankind. Underlying most… Continue Reading

Details: The thrust is to get the Reserve Bank of India and other public financial institutions to infuse liquidity and increase lending by the fin… Continue Reading

Details: The thrust is to get the Reserve Bank of India and other public financial institutions to infuse liquidity and increase lending by the fin… Continue Reading

Details: The National Crisis Management Committee , chaired by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, met on Monday to discuss the relief and restoration m… Continue Reading

Details: A group of 10 Central trade unions wrote to ILO, seeking its intervention to protect workers’ rights and international labour standards.… Continue Reading

Details: With wheat harvesting over in the key grain producing State of Punjab, there has been a spike in incidents of stubble burning compared wit… Continue Reading

Details: China on Monday threatened counter-measures against the U.S. insists on hurting China’s interests, China will have to take every necessa… Continue Reading

Details: Indian, Chinese troops dig in with reinforcements. Deliberations are continuing on a daily basis between military commanders of India and … Continue Reading

Details: The late Patamakki Rathnakar, former MLA of Tirthahalli who had requested the State government to conduct research over the issue, had sai… Continue Reading

Details: Every day, we hear of migrant labourers walking hundreds of miles, many dying in the process. I refer here to the Supreme Court, which has… Continue Reading

Details: While it does not mean much on the ground, it has successfully managed to deflect attention from the pittance offered by way of fiscal sup… Continue Reading

Details: The fresh leaks include nearly 2,000 Aadhaar cards and details of 18 lakh Indians, all available for free. The leak of nearly 2.9 crore jo… Continue Reading

Details: Among the rare trees that have fallen include the only full-grown kalpabriksha tree in the garden, the mad tree , the para rubber tree , t… Continue Reading

Details: Foreign Minister says Beijing is open to international probe led by the WHO. The United States is pushing relations with China to “th… Continue Reading

Details: The map showed Kalapani as part of Pithoragarh district. Nepal protested immediately and drew attention to the lingering issue. On May 8, … Continue Reading

Details: On May 14, Indian Army Chief General Manoj Naravane said incidents at the Pangong lake in Ladakh on May 5 and at Naku La in Sikkim on May … Continue Reading

Details: Personal details of about 2.90 crore Indian job seekers have been found dumped on the dark net, raising concerns among cyber crime agencie… Continue Reading

Details: Both governments have discouraged farmers from growing rice, officials told The Hindu. In Haryana, farmers had sown cotton in 5.11 lakh he… Continue Reading

Details: She said clear instructions had been given in a meeting with CEOs and MDs of public sector banks and financial institutions on Friday that… Continue Reading

Details: on Saturday, the State’s COVID-19 positive count touched 239 with the addition of 70 infected persons to Friday’s figure. “We are fa… Continue Reading

Details: China has hinted at a shift in how it will pursue its signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) amid growing concerns about debt repayments… Continue Reading

Details: To intensively advance the trial work of fintech innovation regulation, the PBoC supports the expansion of the pilot program to cover the … Continue Reading

Details: The Reserve Bank of India further reduced the key interest rate or the repo rate by 40 bps on Friday, after a yet another out-of-turn Mone… Continue Reading

Details: Nepal Prime Minister K. Sharma Oli took New Delhi by surprise this month with an aggressive posture on the issue, especially over the inau… Continue Reading

Details: First such invasion since 1992-93: Six swarms of locust entered Madhya Pradesh on May 17 from Rajasthan but have caused minimal crop da… Continue Reading

Details: Poonawalla, whose family owns the vaccine maker, said scientists, drugmakers and manufacturers were collaborating at an unparalleled scale… Continue Reading

Details: IndiGo, the largest airline in the country, which will operate 450 airlines to begin with, requires passengers to “download the Aarogya … Continue Reading

Details: An official source who did not wish to be named said India had proposed a trilateral response in partnership with Pakistan and Iran to com… Continue Reading

Details: China on Friday introduced the draft of a controversial national security law in Hong Kong in its parliament to tighten Beijing’s contro… Continue Reading

Details: When an aircraft travels at supersonic speed – meaning faster than sound – the field of sound waves moves to the rear of the craft. A st… Continue Reading

Details: The trail of death and devastation that Cyclone Amphan has left in West Bengal and Odisha demonstrates, once again, the fragile state of e… Continue Reading

Details: With four incidents along the Line of Actual Control in recent weeks, the India-China border is witnessing the highest tensions since the … Continue Reading

Details: In India, the Constituent Assembly regarded the principle as so foundational that, through Article 32, it granted the Supreme Court the au… Continue Reading

Details: Under the scheme, up to Rs 10,000 per acre a year will be transferred into the bank accounts of farmers and the first instalment totalling… Continue Reading

Details: In addition there have been stand offs at Demchok and Galwan Nalah both in Eastern Ladakh, sources said. In the past few weeks, however, a… Continue Reading

Details : Opening up economic production from a lockdown, even partially, when the COVID-19 pandemic has not peaked in the country poses an extraor… Continue Reading

Details: The decision to notify a list of weapons systems for sourcing entirely from Indian manufacturers, the promise to progressively expand this… Continue Reading

Details: A special purpose vehicle would be set up by a public sector bank to manage a Stressed Asset Fund whose special securities would be guaran… Continue Reading

Details: A seven-member Russian technocrat team reached the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site on Wednesday to inspect the ‘unusual vibrations… Continue Reading

Details: The invasion of locusts had started from the India-Pakistan border on April 11 and they have now crossed the Thar desert and affected 16 o… Continue Reading

Details: In the first instalment, Rs.1,500 crore would be distributed among 18 lakh farmers, more than 80% of them small and marginal, Chief Minist… Continue Reading

Details: China relationship, already strained due to trade disputes, has further deteriorated over U.S accusations of China’s mismanagement of th… Continue Reading

Details: The incidents were marked by “aggressive behaviour by both sides”, which resulted in injuries to 76 Indian soldiers, including serious… Continue Reading

Details: New Delhi says such artificial enlargement of territorial claims will not be accepted by India. Nepal’s new official map is “artificia… Continue Reading

Details: Three persons were killed as super cyclonic storm Amphan made landfall near Sagar Islands in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on … Continue Reading

Details: Three persons were killed as super cyclonic storm Amphan made landfall near Sagar Islands in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on … Continue Reading

Details: Pakistan first operationalised this strategy in regard to Afghanistan following the overthrow of Zahir Shah by his cousin Daud Khan in 197… Continue Reading

Details: If Mao Zedong represented the crude face of Chinese communism, then Zhou was the epitome of its refinement. Where Mao preferred to exercis… Continue Reading

Details: Movement restrictions owing to the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to an initial statistical reduction in drug seizures, but without a real cha… Continue Reading

Details: The Central Bureau of Investigation has sent alerts to all the States, Union Territories and the Central agencies on a malicious software … Continue Reading

Details: health officials said here on Tuesday, listing a number of other ways in which the two countries are working together. “In the context o… Continue Reading

Details: India has upgraded its infrastructure, letting troops beef up patrol in areas where China has established a more frequent presence. A grea… Continue Reading

Details: On Tuesday evening, the cyclone lay about 360 km south of Paradip in Odisha and 510 km south-southwest of Digha. Very high wind speeds ran… Continue Reading

Details: If implemented, they will not only weaken the control of States over an industry supplying a basic human necessity such as electricity but… Continue Reading

Details: Bhadauria. Bhadauria on Monday, while the “high priority” deal for 83 LCA-MK1A jets was expected to be signed in three months. On… Continue Reading

Details: Rajesh Gokhle, Faculty, National Institute of Immunology and former head of the CSIR-Insitute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, who has… Continue Reading

Details: The language of the resolution reflects the diplomatic tug of war that has taken place since the pandemic began in early 2019 . China has … Continue Reading

Details: On May 15, President Donald Trump threatened to “cut off the whole relationship” with China over the COVID-19 pandemic, which originat… Continue Reading

Details: The J&K administration on Monday notified the J&K grant of domicile certificate procedure rules 2020 and set a fast track process in motio… Continue Reading

Details: The Ministry of Law and Justice on Monday notified the appointment P. Krishna Bhat as an additional judge of the Karnataka High Court, alm… Continue Reading

Details: A recent medical technique, known as less invasive surfactant administration , has been started at J. Lon Government Children’s Hospital… Continue Reading

Details: The sea turned rough in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, on May 18, 2020, under the influence of Amphan. Currently, Amphan is located about … Continue Reading

Details: Our bowlers have done well to limit the COVID-19 score and flatten the curve. Putting aside threats to personal safety, family interests, … Continue Reading

Details: As India slowly attempts to lift its nationwide lockdown, under compulsion of reviving the economy, labour rights are disappearing at an a… Continue Reading

Details: The Centre’s objective of using the COVID-19 crisis to usher in an Atmanirbhar Bharat saw Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman focus Frid… Continue Reading

Details: The DSR technique is less time consuming and labour intensive than the conventional practice. The DSR technique called ‘tar-wattar DSR�… Continue Reading

Details: Called the ‘Special Long Term Transition Loan to Discoms for COVID-19', the financial assistance is meant to help the Discoms clear thei… Continue Reading

Details: The total package amounts to almost Rs.21 lakh crore by the Centre’s accounting, but is heavy on credit-related measures, including Rs.8… Continue Reading

Details: It said the highest number of undertrial prisoners released was 9,977 in Uttar Pradesh, followed by 5,460 in Rajasthan and 4,547 in Tamil … Continue Reading

Details: U.S. is trying to salvage its deal with the Taliban, despite rising violence in Afghanistan, National Security Advisory Board member and f… Continue Reading

Details: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and political rival Abdullah Abdullah have signed a power-sharing agreement two months after both declared t… Continue Reading

Details: The first tranche, aimed at micro, small and medium enterprises , non-banking financial companies and at some individuals was announced by… Continue Reading

Details: The government has maintained that the farm sector is functioning smoothly despite the lockdown to check the spread of COVID-19, and the l… Continue Reading

Details: Rawat told a small group of journalists during the week. Saying the naval fighter jets can operate in deserts and the IAF jets there can m… Continue Reading

Details: Sitharaman said, noting that structural reforms were the focus of Saturday’s announcements. “These sectors with these reforms are goin… Continue Reading

Details: Ryan said the concept of herd immunity is generally used for calculating how many people will need to be vaccinated in a population in ord… Continue Reading

Details: Narendra Modi had announced India’s decision to quit the grouping, which includes the 10 ASEAN nations. As the deadline for a response t… Continue Reading

Details: Faced with dwindling revenue due to the stagnation in economic activity since the national lockdown began, States are desperate to raise m… Continue Reading

Details: In such States institutions of higher learning controlled and managed by governmental agencies act like mercenaries, promote the political… Continue Reading

Details: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday announced Rs 1 lakh crore fund to boost agriculture infrastructure across the country. The f… Continue Reading

Details: Sitharaman said. Several agricultural economists and farm activists welcomed the reform and investment announcements, but questioned the l… Continue Reading

Details: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the government not to resort to any coercive action against private companies who have not paid their wo… Continue Reading

Details: The difference in the arrival dates by both agencies is as much as a week. The normal date of onset for the State is June 1. In a statemen… Continue Reading

Details: “We are testing two N gene regions, so we need to recalibrate the machine to test both of them independently as a common cut-off wasn’… Continue Reading

Details: The UK High Court on Thursday rejected a plea of businessman Vijay Mallya for permission to move the Supreme Court against the dismissal o… Continue Reading

Details: Sitharaman said there are an estimated 8 crore migrant workers who have been housed in government and privately run relief camps across th… Continue Reading

Details: China opposed any move by Taiwan to use the COVID-19 pandemic as a “pretext” to seek independence, its Embassy in New Delhi said on Th… Continue Reading

Details: We are facing COVID-19 crisis and once societies and governments have dealt with the challenges, we will have these talks. The mixed messa… Continue Reading

Details: The recent incidents of face-off between the troops of India and China are neither “co-related” nor have any connection with other glo… Continue Reading

Details: The recent incidents of face-off between the troops of India and China are neither “co-related” nor have any connection with other glo… Continue Reading

Details: The government could have specified the interest cap on these loans without leaving it to individual lenders as each of them has its own r… Continue Reading

Details: The Prime Minister has just announced Lockdown 4.0. The announcements by the Finance Minister thus far involve no additional public spendi… Continue Reading

Details: Shock point: Snatching away labour rights in the midst of a global pandemic and national lockdown is distressing and shocking. Over the… Continue Reading

Details: The Central Board of Direct Taxation , a wing of the Ministry of Finance, has initiated disciplinary proceedings against some Indian Reven… Continue Reading

Details: In a first of its kind proposal. the Army plans to take civilians on a three- year ‘Tour of Duty’ or ‘three-year short service’ on… Continue Reading

Details: Taiwan has proposed a regular communication channel with India to link up medical agencies to better cooperate in the fight against COVID-… Continue Reading

Details: Significantly, the strictures followed an inquiry into the CDC’s funding of an “unapproved” Indian laboratory in Manipal for work on… Continue Reading

Details: Diplomatic solution: Gyawali said that the leaders sought a diplomatic solution to the crisis that involves the territory of Kalapani t… Continue Reading

Details: The Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund, better known as PM CARES, will allocate Rs.3,100 crore … Continue Reading

Details: Fissures in cooperation: ‘National Plan’ under Section 11, as well as issuance of binding guidelines by the Centre to States under … Continue Reading

Details: The Central government has so far followed a mostly top-down approach in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. This centralised approach is coun… Continue Reading

Details: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said a new-look Lockdown 4.0 beyond May 17 was in the offing, while announcing an economic stimulu… Continue Reading

Details: India is among 88 countries that are likely to miss global nutrition targets by 2025, according to the Global Nutrition Report 2020 releas… Continue Reading

Details: Helicopters of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army came close to the border during the face-off with the Indian Army near Pangong Tso… Continue Reading

Details: move to reinstate Taiwan’s observer status at the World Health Assembly or to China’s opposition to it. Jaishankar attended a seven-na… Continue Reading

Details: In addition to making the Aarogya Setu app mandatory, the Health Ministry also directed the States to focus on more effective surveillance… Continue Reading

Details: The Parliament building in New Delhi. The Indian Constitution provides for parity of powers between the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in l… Continue Reading

Details: Over the last few days, many States have made changes to their labour laws. Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab have extended the maxim… Continue Reading

Details: Soon after Independence, while the Constitution of a free India was being drafted, Dr. Ambedkar, the chairperson of the Drafting Committee… Continue Reading

Details: Ten central trade unions on May 11 said they were considering lodging a complaint with the International Labour Organisation against the �… Continue Reading

Details: COVID-19 has given a boost to e-NAM, the national digital platform for agricultural trade, with the number of connected mandis, or wholesa… Continue Reading

Details: The gas will be transported in two consignments: Jolted by the death of 12 persons and hundreds falling sick due to gas leak at LG Poly… Continue Reading

Details: China on Monday threatened to retaliate against a U.S rule that tightening visa restrictions on Chinese journalists, in an escalating row … Continue Reading

Details: Monday though a social media post from the Embassy of India in Nepal stated that Mr. Nepal disputes India’s claims and maintains that th… Continue Reading

Details: In February 2020, the nine-judge Bench dismissed the objections and decided to hear the reference. It had, however, postponed the publicat… Continue Reading

Details: India finds itself in an increasingly dangerous world, one that is fragmenting and slowing down economically. Rapid shifts in the balance … Continue Reading

Details: The National Green Tribunal on Friday directed LG Polymers India to deposit an initial amount of Rs.50 crore for the damage caused by the … Continue Reading

Details: Even pre-lockdown, it was only 800 transactions per month, out of the 22 crore ration cards making transactions each month. If utilised pr… Continue Reading

Details: Rating agency Moody’s said that the negative outlook of India reflects increasing risks that economic growth will remain significantly l… Continue Reading

Details: India should discuss its concerns on terrorism directly with the Taliban, said U. The envoy said India had a “significant role” in Afg… Continue Reading

Details: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Friday asked the Centre to respond to a writ petition challenging its directive to make 'Aaro… Continue Reading

Details: The nationwide lockdown has been central to the government’s strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. While the lockdown has helped con… Continue Reading

Details: They were found in the latest study of one of a pair of binary brown dwarfs. A group of international astrophysicists have identified c… Continue Reading

Details: CM announces compensation of Rs.1 crore for families of deceased. Eleven people, including a six-year-old girl, died and over 350 were adm… Continue Reading

Details: Expressing “deep concern” about the increase in violence in Afghanistan, Mr. Jaishankar and Mr. Doval made a particular mention of the… Continue Reading

Details: “While academic engagement through e-resources during the period of lockdown is unexceptionable, any attempt to formalise it as online t… Continue Reading

Details: Emergency services across Europe have seen a sharp rise in domestic abuse calls under sweeping lockdowns imposed across the continent, the… Continue Reading

Details: Donald Trump has said the COVID-19 pandemic is a worse “attack” on the U.S. The President has ramped up his rhetoric against Beijing i… Continue Reading

Details: During the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19, it has become clear that many activities can simply be done onli… Continue Reading

Details: If in April there were early signs of Kerala gaining an upper hand over the virus, its control became clear from the fourth week of April.… Continue Reading

Details: When complex systems come to catastrophes, i. critical points of instability, they re-emerge in distinctly new forms, according to the sci… Continue Reading

Details: Cyber experts say the aim is to capitalise on the dubious fame and gain followers. Even as the Delhi police cracked down on the ‘Bois… Continue Reading

Details: China on Tuesday successfully launched a new rocket and prototype spacecraft, state media said, in a major test of the country’s ambitio… Continue Reading

Details: Iran's parliament has passed a bill allowing the government to slash four zeros from the rial, Iranian state media reported on Monday, aft… Continue Reading

Details: We defer this task to the best wisdom of those on whom the Constitution of India bestows this duty. Let the Secretary, Ministry of Home Af… Continue Reading

Details: Set up under the Food Corporations Act 1964, in its first decade, the FCI was at the forefront of India’s quest of self-sufficiency in r… Continue Reading

Details: Under the scheme, each Member of Parliament “has the choice to suggest to the District Collector for works to the tune of Rs.5 crores pe… Continue Reading

Details: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed an ultra violet (UV) disinfection tower for rapid and chemical-free… Continue Reading

Details: Businessman Vijay Mallya has sought permission from the U.S . had turned down the businessman’s appeal, concluding that there was a p… Continue Reading

Details: Gilgit-Baltistan has functioned as a “provincial autonomous region” since 2009. India has issued a demarche to protest what it call… Continue Reading

Details: In the global war against the novel coronavirus, emerging economies, many belonging to BRICS, have reached out to other countries humbled … Continue Reading

Details: In a recent press briefing, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported noticeable trends with respect to COVID-19 cases in India. … Continue Reading

Details: Biggest problem: In a CII poll of 300-odd CEOs released on Sunday, almost half say an economic recovery will take over a year. In such … Continue Reading

Details: To overhaul it’s nine year-old uplink and downlink policy for private satellite TV channels, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry h… Continue Reading

Details: Despite a massive 50% drop in oil revenues and a downturn in the economy, Saudi Arabia’s investments in India will not be affected, the … Continue Reading

Details: This is the vaccine candidate to be used in Phase 1 clinical trial at the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility in Oxford, Britain, April 2, … Continue Reading

Details: Why was it needed? That led to fears that the debt funds of many other fund houses could face redemption pressure accentuated by the pa… Continue Reading

Details: The antibody is capable of binding with the spike protein found on the outer layer of the virus. An electrical signal is generated when th… Continue Reading

Details: Remittances to developing nations are set to fall as migrant workers are hit hard by the virus crisis. Mohammad Osman Goni, a migrant w… Continue Reading

Details: The government has unequivocally dismissed the US Commission of International Religious Freedom’s latest report, which ranks India on th… Continue Reading

Details: The government’s Aarogya Setu app to track COVID-19 cases was not accessible to persons with disabilities , particularly those with hear… Continue Reading

Details: The threat of emerging infectious diseases to global health and the economy, trade, and tourism has never abated. Pandemics can spread rap… Continue Reading

Details: Widen the food basket: The second dimension is the access to food, which is a function of purchasing power, as unless you are a farmer … Continue Reading

Details: A new Urban Employment Guarantee Act is needed to complement the existing rural jobs scheme during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, said a gro… Continue Reading

Details: Uttar Pradesh and Bihar joined the Centre’s ration card portability scheme on International Labour Day, offering some hope that their hu… Continue Reading

Details: In a letter published in The Lancet on April 30, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros A Ghebreyesus and others highlight a fe… Continue Reading

Details: The exigency: There was a great deal of anxiety, particularly about the graduating batches of students, lest the ongoing session should… Continue Reading

Details: India was conspicuous by its absence from the meeting on April 16, given its historical and strategic ties with Afghanistan, but not for t… Continue Reading

details: On Monday, the RBI had announced a special window of Rs.50,000 crore for mutual funds in view of the redemption pressure that the fund hou… Continue Reading

Details: Structures built on Mekong river altered its natural flow: A new study highlighting the impact of China’s dams on the Mekong river ha… Continue Reading

Details: While India made “meaningful progress” to enhance IP protection and enforcement in some areas, it did not resolve recent and long-st… Continue Reading

Details: The State government wants to meet the target of 50 lakh downloads of the Centre’s app Following instructions by the State’s Informat… Continue Reading

Details: The court held that rights of trade, business and occupation or religious rights “do not come in the way of securing transparency and re… Continue Reading

Details: ” Justice Khanna was not speaking about the crushing of freedom at the point of a bayonet. He was concerned, rather, about situations wh… Continue Reading

Details: The dissolved oxygen concentration, a measure of the amount of free oxygen available in river systems, “rose marginally” from March 22… Continue Reading

Details: South Asia could face a further public health crisis as children miss routine vaccinations, the UN warned on Tuesday, spurring fears that … Continue Reading

Details: India has moved to the seventh position from the previous year’s eighth in the annual Global Terrorism Index 2019. In March, the Cabinet… Continue Reading

Details: Commission on International Religious Freedom has downgraded India to the lowest ranking, “countries of particular concern” in its 202… Continue Reading

Details: The government had said the State government employees’ salary for six days every month would be deducted for the next five months. The … Continue Reading

Details: A deemed institution under the University Grants Commission Act of 1956 has the same common public duty like a university to confer academ… Continue Reading

Details: The Maha Kumbh Mela is organised once in 12 years, and the last time the event was held in 2010, about 10 million had reportedly congregat… Continue Reading

Details: Amidst the national lockdown, the Supreme Court and several other courts have been holding virtual proceedings. A question of concern to t… Continue Reading

Details: *The COVID-19 epidemic has mercilessly highlighted our shortcomings and our failures, even as we pride ourselves on being the world’s la… Continue Reading

Details: The very complexity of the novel coronavirus leads to radical uncertainty. Hence, it it unlikely that the world will ever be the same agai… Continue Reading

Details: Under a lockdown with summer approaching and with the injunction of constant hand washing as a preventative for the spread of COVID-19, ho… Continue Reading

Details: India’s tensions and rivalry with Pakistan, China are among major drivers for its increased expenditure’. The global military expen… Continue Reading

Details: A high-powered panel must take over management of fund house, says brokers’ association. The Association of National Exchanges Member… Continue Reading

Details: In a bid to address concerns arising out of Franklin Templeton’s decision to wind up six debt funds, the Reserve Bank of India on Monday… Continue Reading

Details: Election to the council, scheduled on April 4, had been deferred because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The BTAD, comprising four districts of … Continue Reading

Details: The Central Bank of Sri Lanka recently sought a USD400 million currency swap with the Reserve Bank of India , to boost its foreign reserve… Continue Reading

Details: A Delhi-based rights body has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention in ensuring food for the Chakma and Hajong communities … Continue Reading

Details: In the wake of the controversy surrounding the Sprinklr deal, the State government has decided to carry out a security audit by CERT-In, t… Continue Reading

Details: Movement of inputs and finished goods is still disrupted even after lockdown relaxation, say 60% of companies. Almost half of the indus… Continue Reading

Details: Shortage of labour due to COVID-19 pandemic likely to influence decision of the farmers in the State. Punjab can see around three lakh … Continue Reading

Details: Developed by the National Informatics Centre under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, the app got its biggest push when… Continue Reading

Details: Claims were made of the virus being manufactured in laboratories and then shipped to nations to let loose on their populations. In a paper… Continue Reading

Details: The Centre plans to fast track the review of some investment proposals from neigbouring countries such as China following concerns new scr… Continue Reading

Details: Forest department warns public against harming bats. We should remember that all wild animals harbour viruses and it is very biased and… Continue Reading

Details: The merging entities were about 30 and 8 times the Sun’s mass: The event, dubbed GW190412, was detected nearly a year ago, and this i… Continue Reading

Details: This is exactly where the pandemic could help BRICS, experts believe. Apart from that, BRICS countries are planning to work on an early wa… Continue Reading

Details: If every adversity presents an opportunity and every cloud has a silver lining, then the COVID-19 pandemic is the time to bring in innovat… Continue Reading

Details: The Supreme Court is right in considering cent per cent reservation as anathema to the constitutional scheme of equality even if it is for… Continue Reading

Details: He recommended a “cautious approach” for preserving the “basic integrity of this forested hill slope” that is a part of the elepha… Continue Reading

Details: Despite the strain on government finances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no credible proposal to amend the legislation meant to co… Continue Reading

Details: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Friday directed the State government to anonymise the data of COVID-19 patients and those un… Continue Reading

Details: Since the first case of novel coronavirus infection in India was reported in end-January, many healthcare workers have been subjected to a… Continue Reading

Details: In recent days, China has conducted military drills and deployed large-scale military assets to the maritime area, while officially celebr… Continue Reading

Details: The Reserve Bank of India has announced simultaneous purchase and sale of government bonds in a bid to soften long-term yields. Such open … Continue Reading

Details: In a major relief for corporate borrowers hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, the government has decided to amend the insolvency law to… Continue Reading

Details: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday barring certain categories of immigrants from admission to the U.S. This wil… Continue Reading

Deatils: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had in a recent advisory cautioned against the spraying of disinfectant on people as part … Continue Reading

Details: Enacting a law barring appointments of retired judges by the government will restore confidence in the judiciary. The Constitution has … Continue Reading

Details: The upheaval caused by the novel coronavirus should inspire a review of past choices and policies. When several States decided to stop giv… Continue Reading

Details: The microscopic SARS-CoV-2, by causing a global pandemic, has forced much of humanity to cease everyday practices and jump-start new ones.… Continue Reading

Details: MGR Medical University has developed a vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 through ‘reverse vaccinology’, the institution’s Vice-Ch… Continue Reading

Details: The Union Department of Biotechnology has allotted Rs.143.89 lakh for JNTBGRI to take up the project. The whole genome sequencing of 1,… Continue Reading

Details: The pandemic and declining oil prices are likely to reduce remittances from the U.S. the U.K, and EU countries to South Asia, resulting in… Continue Reading

Details: A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday held that both the Central and State governments have the power to fix the price of… Continue Reading

Details: President Donald Trump has taken his administration’s war on immigration to the next level. What does the suspension mean? Trump h… Continue Reading

Details: The two-stage satellite launch took off from Iran’s Central Desert, says Revolutionary Guard. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard … Continue Reading

Details: “If any of these sets of people had a prior illness, then their condition is likely to worsen because of stress, or due to medicines a… Continue Reading

Details: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a Rs15,000-crore investment package for the COVID-19 emergency response and health system prepared… Continue Reading

Details: A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court held it unconstitutional to provide 100% reservation for tribal teachers in schools l… Continue Reading

Details: They generally do not cover harassment at home and workplace and are focussed more on physical violence. The penal provisions contained in… Continue Reading

Details: Five decades after the oil shock of 1973, when an Arab embargo on the supply of oil to some western powers including the United States sen… Continue Reading

Details: Besides addressing the immediate distress conditions of migrants, the state needs to think of long-term solutions. Seasonal migration i… Continue Reading

Details: SAGAR seeks to differentiate India’s leadership from the modus operandi of other regionally active major powers and to reassure littoral… Continue Reading

Details: The name given to diseases transmitted from animals to humans is “zoonoses”, based on the Greek words for “animal” and “sickness… Continue Reading

Details: Why did prices fall like this? WTI oil is traded as futures contracts in the NYMEX where traders buy and sell monthly futures such as, … Continue Reading

Details: In this August 18, 2013 photo, Japanese Coast Guard boat and vessel sail alongside Japanese activists' fishing boat, not in photo, warning… Continue Reading

Details: It has been reduced to under 3,800 in the past 18 months, according to Castellum. About 1,800 of the names have been removed since the beg… Continue Reading

Details: Sepsivac, a drug jointly developed by the Ahmedabad-based Cadilla Pharmaceuticals and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ,… Continue Reading

Details: While it has become anachronistic, the need for legal safeguards and welfare measures for migrants has become even more pressing and urgen… Continue Reading

Details: The government’s decision to ban foreign direct investments through the automatic route from neighbouring countries that share a land bo… Continue Reading

Details: While catastrophes affect people at large, the economical, sociological and psychological impact that each catastrophe has on women is pro… Continue Reading

Details: The threat of COVID-19, however, will continue. This will lead to a fundamental transformation in the role of the state in regulating soci… Continue Reading

Details: oil futures contract in a frenzy on Monday, sending the contract into negative territory for the first time in history, as barely any buye… Continue Reading

Details: on Monday dismissed the appeal of businessman Vijay Mallya against a lower court’s order for his extradition to India in connection with… Continue Reading

Details: The quality of water in the Yamuna has improved along the Delhi stretch during the nationwide lockdown, compared to April last year, accor… Continue Reading

Details: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has allowed the holding of a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Information and Technology via video con… Continue Reading

Details: In an April 17 decision, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry imposed restrictions saying companies from countries that share borders wit… Continue Reading

Detail: The Delhi High Court has directed the Centre and the city government to hold top-level meeting to deliberate on measures to curb domestic v… Continue Reading

Details: Over the initial phase of the national lockdown , India reported a 20-fold increase in confirmed SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 cases , and a 36-fold… Continue Reading

Details: On April 11, the Department of Pharmaceuticals told the Home Ministry that the industry was operating at just 20%-30% of capacity and call… Continue Reading

Details: I have been impressed by the reaction of the India government and other governments in South Asia. With limited health-care capacity, it i… Continue Reading

Details: This group had caused outbreak of SARS in 2002 and MERS in 2009. It is less lethal than SARS but significantly higher than influenza virus… Continue Reading

Details: The principal fault is with Beijing and not WHO, which is still a body dependent on member states, says the former U. Had global governanc… Continue Reading

Details: Electron microscope image of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Excitement about treating the new coronavirus with malaria drugs is rai… Continue Reading

Details: The Ministry of Commerce press note amending the FDI policy to make investments from countries which ‘share a land border’ with India … Continue Reading

Details: In a move that will restrict Chinese investments, the Centre has made prior government approval mandatory for foreign direct investments f… Continue Reading

Details: “All governments in South Asia have responded rapidly to the crisis, but their task is daunting. Governments have imposed social-distanc… Continue Reading

Details: Manipur’s tradition of making rice beer, the practice of tying turbans in Rajasthan and several different dances, forms of music and fes… Continue Reading

Details: Kerala’s much heralded success in social development has invited endless theories of its cultural, historical or geographical exceptiona… Continue Reading

Details: Late night on March 23, while the nation was vexed with the coronavirus crisis, Shivraj Singh Chouhan of the Bharatiya Janata Party was sw… Continue Reading

Details: RBI stipulated that small and mid-sized NBFCs and micro-finance institutions should receive at least 50% of these funds. Banks can avai… Continue Reading

Details: Shaktikanta Das further said surplus liquidity in the banking system has increased substantially as result of central bank’s actions. In… Continue Reading

Details: The Chitra GeneLAMP-N, made by scientists at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology , Thiruvananthapuram, h… Continue Reading

Details: Disruptions in domestic food supply chains are a pressing issue as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, World Bank President David Malpass told … Continue Reading

Details: She has lost her source of livelihood because we are under a lockdown and economic activity has stopped. A lockdown is necessary to preven… Continue Reading

Details: Around eight million people in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries constitute a unique cohort among Indian diaspora communities around … Continue Reading

Details: State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender, has decided to extend term loan facilities to non-banking finance companies as well a… Continue Reading

Details: The Agriculture Ministry hopes to ramp up production of coarse cereals this year. The Ministry admits that the challenge is how to create … Continue Reading

Details: Beijing denies accusations, says it is committed to a moratorium on tests: China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclea… Continue Reading

Details: Let’s not make it any tougher,” Kristalina Georgieva told BBC radio. , of the EU, the whole world. The transition period is due to end… Continue Reading

Details: The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday said it had started pool testing COVID-19 samples in the State. Meanwhile, the number of deaths d… Continue Reading

Details: Kejriwal said that the results of these trials would be out in three-four days from now and hoped that the technique would work and that l… Continue Reading

Details: The President said the group had promoted China's “disinformation” about the virus that likely led to a wider outbreak of the virus th… Continue Reading

Details: A partial reopening of the economy is being proposed, but a lot will depend on the extent of success in containing the spread of the COVID… Continue Reading

Details: Cosmetic cuts: The 30% cut in the Rs.1 lakh per month salary and the Rs.27,000 cut in office and constituency allowances amount to savi… Continue Reading

Details: Under the NFSA, the PDS is supposed to cover 75% of the population in rural areas and 50% of the population in urban areas, which works ou… Continue Reading

Details: Adverse effects: “The use of these tunnels may give a false sense of security and may have adverse health effects as sodium hypochlor… Continue Reading

details: Delhi has been given the go-ahead to use plasma enrichment technique on a trial basis to save the lives of critical COVID-19 patients, Lie… Continue Reading

Details: The outbreak, which spread from Constantinople to both the West and East, had killed up to 25 to 100 million people. The plague would c… Continue Reading

Details: The anatomy of rumours: Not all rumours are pernicious. For a start, a rumour is an untested piece of information, opinion, report or s… Continue Reading

Details: “India is not able to get required quantities of test kits, PPE and parts of ventilators through importation. A disastrous model: … Continue Reading

Details: India is facing the worst public health crisis in its independent history which pales the earlier ones such as AIDS, SARS and H1N1 into in… Continue Reading

Details: Global economic output to contract by 3% due to coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a “severe” effect on the world e… Continue Reading

Details: “The mobile application has been customised to collect COVID-19 specific geospatial datasets through community engagement to augment the… Continue Reading

Details: Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba will hold a videoconference on Wednesday with Chief Secretaries of all States to discuss the future road map… Continue Reading

Details: United Nations has warned that around 117 million children worldwide face measles risk because countries are using their vaccine resources… Continue Reading

Details: The quality of water in the Delhi stretch of the Yamuna has increased due to “complete reduction in industrial pollutants” in the rive… Continue Reading

Details: Any offset agreements will be defined in negotiations between India and contractors The U.S. State Department has approved two potentia… Continue Reading

Details: The background to the Poona Pact was the Communal Award of August 1932, which, among other things, reserved 71 seats in the central legisl… Continue Reading

Details: Removal of A.P The legality of the removal of the Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner is seriously in doubt. That it was the culmin… Continue Reading

Details: With Indian courts too under a lockdown for three weeks , citizens have severely restricted access to justice for this period. However, th… Continue Reading

Details: The Union government is exploring raising a loan to pay the shortfall of the Goods and Services Tax compensation amount to States as the l… Continue Reading

Details: Judgment is based on M. A Governor can call for a floor test any time he objectively feels a government in power has lost the confidence o… Continue Reading

Details: Online child pornography traffic after the lockdown in the country has gone up by 95% with online data monitoring websites showing an incr… Continue Reading

Details: Now, at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations recognises domestic violence against women as a “shadow pandemic”. The C… Continue Reading

Details: The only certainty right now in a pandemic-gripped world is the all-enveloping uncertainty. And the WTO acknowledged as much when it relea… Continue Reading

Details: A week after the Ministry of External Affairs announced that it would “license” the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and supply it to v… Continue Reading

Details: With the government likely to extend the nation-wide lockdown till the month end, the Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution minis… Continue Reading

Details: They are key to improve economic activity and liquidity, says Industries Ministry. In a letter to Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla on S… Continue Reading

Details: The government is “engaged” in talks with the U.S administration to reconsider President Donald Trump’s orders to impose visa sancti… Continue Reading

Details: People with disability have special issues in a situation like the spread of the novel coronavirus . People with disability are a diverse … Continue Reading

Details: Following COVID-19 lockdown, the Bihar Education Project Council has launched a mobile application and plans to book a slot with the All I… Continue Reading

Details: With the available evidence, it was believed that physical distancing was the best weapon to combat this little-known virus, transmitted t… Continue Reading

Details: A cascade of viral particles enters the body through the nose, eyes or mouth. Breathing carries some of these particles to the lower respi… Continue Reading

Details: The second is a messenger RNA vaccine developed by Moderna and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In RNA vaccines, the… Continue Reading

Details: Gadkari said. “As for the logistics of their return as and when the lockdown is eased, the guidelines will have to come from the State g… Continue Reading

Details: Migrants labourers have been among the worst hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most Indian migrants in the GCC countries are at the bottom… Continue Reading

Details: Lockdowns alone can’t be effective unless combined with other health measures, says the WHO Chief Scientist. We first got the viral sequ… Continue Reading

Details: The government is in the process of applying its mind on whether it should extend or lift in phases the 21-day lockdown that ends next wee… Continue Reading

Details: India has to chart its own strategy, whether it is in planning a staged release from the lockdown or in developing domestic capacity for m… Continue Reading

Details: The Centre’s decision to remove the tariff ceiling from renewable energy tenders will give the beleaguered industry a much-needed leg-up… Continue Reading

Details: Once the COVID-19 dust settles down, a new order will emerge in the job market, analysts say. Several new jobs in the field of health and … Continue Reading

Details: With cancellation of over 50% of the orders and a gloomy forecast for the future, 15 million job losses in exports are expected. About 15 … Continue Reading

Details: Ensure resumption of units, urges Department of Pharmaceuticals. A countrywide shortage of medicines and medical devices is likely in the … Continue Reading

Details: The government’s move won it many expressions of gratitude from countries that received clearances for their medical supplies, which had… Continue Reading

Details: The complaint highlighted the issue of mentally ill persons dependent for food and shelter on charities, temples and gurdwaras. The Nat… Continue Reading

Details: Though the market has recovered since and a wider production-sharing compromise is in the works, the general outlook remains bleak. In a r… Continue Reading

Details: Irrespective of whether India bowed to U.S The decision to reverse the ban was made public hours after U.S President Donald Trump warned o… Continue Reading

Details: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on free trade is yet to be completely understood. Biswajit Dhar and Nagesh Kumar spoke to Vikas Dhoot … Continue Reading

Details: The proposal submitted to the Indian Council of Medical Research says that the Transfusion Medicine Department of the Sree Chitra Tirunal … Continue Reading

Details: While States will come up with varying measures for support and relief, the Centre must lead this effort to ensure uniformity, optimisatio… Continue Reading

Details: The incident happened in Indore: “We have arrested six of the accused and the law has been invoked against four,” said Vivek Sharma… Continue Reading

Details: Central Government on Thursday announced that Rs.15,000 crore has been sanctioned to States under the India COVID-19 Emergency Response an… Continue Reading

Details: Its responsibility is to monitor threats to public health and inform and advise the member states. The fight against COVID-19 has to be on… Continue Reading

Details: In the first week of the lockdown, one of the 257 complaint calls that the National Commission for Women received was from a father in Raj… Continue Reading

Details: The suspension of the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme for two years to boost the funding available for the COVID-19 fi… Continue Reading

Details: Over the course of the last few weeks, as we have found ourselves in the throes of a pandemic, one of the striking features of governance … Continue Reading

Details: Entomologists say the caterpillar feeds on more than 80 species of plants: A pest attack, albeit confined to a district, has added to t… Continue Reading

Details: The warning came after the advisory issued by the National Tiger Conservation Authority and the Wildlife Division of the Ministry of Envir… Continue Reading

Details: I chaired the meeting of standing committee of NBWL through videoconference and approved wildlife clearance for a number of developmental … Continue Reading

Details: Differences over the prisoner release question have been complicating U.S. brokered attempts to create a lasting peace agreement to end mo… Continue Reading

Details: April 9 will mark the 70th anniversary of the ICCR’s foundation. ICCR has a great history and many stalwarts had shouldered this respons… Continue Reading

Details: Our life after the pandemic will be defined by at least 10 questions on the prevailing organising principles of humankind. That an agei… Continue Reading

Details: Given that this is harvest season, cessation of activity due to labour issues can trigger food deficits and high prices. Reducing the risk… Continue Reading

Details: As it fights COVID-19 with its meagre healthcare resources, India has chosen to bring the economy to a near halt with no clear idea of how… Continue Reading

Details: In an alert sent to 194 nations, including India, Interpol said organisations at the forefront of the global response to the COVID-19 outb… Continue Reading

Details: The Government of India announced on Tuesday that it had rescinded its earlier ban on the export of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine , whic… Continue Reading

Details: The UN Women has urged member-States to include prevention of violence against women in their action plans on COVID-19 and consider shelte… Continue Reading

Details: On the other, farmers face a stalemate as they are unable to work on their land, earn remunerative prices and gain access to markets. F… Continue Reading

Details: Antibiotic resistance: Animal agriculture is moving away from backyard operations to larger industrial facilities which aim to produce … Continue Reading

Details: A tweet by Prime Minister Narendra Modi resulted in the first-ever virtual summit of SAARC leaders on March 15. Solid follow-up: Tho… Continue Reading

Details: With just over a week left of the 21-day coronavirus containment lockdown, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday that India has now ste… Continue Reading

Details: Russia-based ultra-nationalist movement is the first such organisation to be given the designation. The Trump administration on Monday … Continue Reading

Details: The Supreme Court on Monday deemed all restrictions imposed on people from entering, attending or taking part in court hearings as lawful … Continue Reading

Details: A car being disinfected in Guwahati on Monday. Assam govt. The Assam government has set a deadline for the elusive Tablighi Jamaat attende… Continue Reading

Details: The savings will go into the consolidated fund of India. The Union Cabinet on Monday approved a 30% cut in the salaries of all Members of … Continue Reading

Details: As India lacks the resources to significantly ramp up testing, imposing a lockdown was the government’s preferred option. Distrustful of… Continue Reading

Details: The government on Sunday said it set up an empowered group, chaired by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, to undertake discussions with the priv… Continue Reading

Details: Now, more than 50 crore Ayushman beneficiaries can avail free testing and treatment in designated private hospitals across India The Ce… Continue Reading

Details: High engagement: “There has been talk of a German anomaly,” said Hendrik Streeck, director of the Institute of Virology at the Univ… Continue Reading

Details: Explaining about who to test and the scale of testing the Health Ministry has said that testing has to be focused and judiciously done, ev… Continue Reading

Details: Trump’s assurance that the West Asian kingdom and Russia, major oil producers, would soon announce a production cut sent prices up again… Continue Reading

Details: India’s real GDP decelerated to its lowest in over six years in third quarter of 2019-2020, and the outbreak of the COVID-19 posed fresh… Continue Reading

Details: Adequate arrangements and protocols in place to handle variation in demand, the Power Ministry says. No harm is likely to India’s pow… Continue Reading

Details: Scientists have mapped out human proteins that interact with those of the virus In a breathtaking feat, nearly a hundred scientists fro… Continue Reading

Details: The researchers have identified 31 candidate molecules to target the main protease which helps the virus replicate Using new methods, t… Continue Reading

Details: India’s official position is that there is no evidence of community transmission in the country. According to Lav Agrawal, spokesperson,… Continue Reading

Details: China’s pivotal role: What is known is that China’s growth rate has further plummeted, even as it was confronting an economic slowd… Continue Reading

Details: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for switching off electric lights at homes across the nation for nine minutes at 9 p. on April 5, as… Continue Reading

Details : Benchmark Brent crude oil futures climbed to as high as USD 34.91 a barrel on Friday on rising hopes of a new global deal to cut global c… Continue Reading

Details: Indian rice traders have stopped signing new export contracts amid the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, as labour sh… Continue Reading

Details: Further, both the equity and debt segments have individually registered new highs in terms of monthly outflows of Rs.61,973 crore and Rs.6… Continue Reading

Details: The ‘COVID-19 Community Mobility Report’ covers 131 countries and regions, and uses aggregated, anonymised data to chart movement tren… Continue Reading

Details: Tribals stitch leaves, collected from forests, to make plates in Odisha’s Rayagada district. Lakhs of tribals in Odisha, who have pinned… Continue Reading

Details: Supreme Court, in an en banc sitting led by Chief Justice John Marshall, affirmed the powers of the state to enact quarantine laws and imp… Continue Reading

Details: The rapid spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus across the world has focused attention on the seemingly invisible processes that help pathogens o… Continue Reading

Details: In December 1999, Saeed was released along with Masood Azhar and another alleged terrorist Mushtaq Zargar by the Indian government in exch… Continue Reading

Details: Modi emphasised that the supply lines for medical equipment and drugs and raw materials needed for the manufacture of these products need … Continue Reading

Details: The Centre is using powers under the Indian Telegraph Act to “fetch information” from telecom companies every 15 minutes to track COVI… Continue Reading

Details: Russia’s move to reject production cuts is driven by its strategy of denying market share to U. The global economy, grappling with the C… Continue Reading

Details: The emergence of evidence of a rise in Indian defence exports, also accompanied by a decline in imports, is a welcome development though t… Continue Reading

Details: The Reserve Bank of India has announced more measures to fight economic disruptions caused by COVID-19, including extension of the realisa… Continue Reading