The Government of India has initiated the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP) with a view to address cyclone risks in the country.The overall objective of the Project is to undertake suitable structural and non-structural […]
Indias nuclear triad, stated in its nuclear doctrine, is operational after indigenous ballistic missile nuclear submarine INS Arihant achieved a milestone by conducting its first deterrence patrol. Arihant is now prowling the deep seas carrying […]
In June 2017, the government of India launched the National Data Repository (NDR) and Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) under the progressive, market driven Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP) of Government of India. What […]
History of Universal Basic Income (UIB) in India: The first serious attempt to figure out how to guarantee a minimum standard of living for every Indian was made way back in 1962. A group of […]
Relevance – Palghar district (in Maharashtra) has seen thousands of small earthquakes since November 2018, but the March 01, 2019 quake measuring 4.3 on the moment magnitude (Mw) (a measure of earthquake magnitude) scale was […]
Relevance – How AIIB has impacted Indian finance? What are AIIB’s strengths? What are the challenges and way ahead? How developed countries like USA do not react well to a changing global financial order? […]
(Update: March 06, 2019) This is a ‘follow-up update’ to the previously written article on GSP. This will keep our readers updated with recent events and at the same time provide them with an opportunity […]
Almost 16,000 desalination plants worldwide produce bigger-than-expected flows of highly salty waste water and toxic chemicals that are damaging the environment, a U.N.-backed study said. Desalination plants pump out 142 million cubic meters (5 billion […]
1 Relationship between employment and housing: Based on an interview of Mr. Srinivas Acharya, managing director of Sundaram BNP Paribas Home Finance. Growth in stable employment opportunities and addressing local infrastructure concerns are key for […]
Advantages of ”proton therapy’ over conventional cancer treatment methods: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has issued licence to Apollo Hospitals in Chennai to operate the proton therapy facility for treating cancer patients. The proton […]
A ready supply of safe blood in sufficient quantities is a vital component of modern health care. In 2015-16, India was 1.1 million units short of its blood requirements. Here too, there were considerable regional […]
1 (A critical account of Universal Basic Income) India’s GDP is growing quite well, however, benefits of India’s economic growth must trickle down much faster to people at the bottom of the pyramid: to poorer […]
The 25th edition of the India-Singaporebilateral naval exercise, SIMBEX, took place at the tri-services command in Port Blair. Changi Naval Base, officially known as RSS Singapura – Changi Naval Base, is the latest naval facility […]
Astronomers have discovered a frozen planet with a mass over three times that of the Earth, orbiting the closest solitary star to the Sun. The potentially rocky planet, known as Barnard’s star b, is a […]
The Strait of Malacca or Straits of Malacca is a narrow, 550 mi stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. As the main shipping channel between the Indian Ocean […]
The Bonda are a Munda ethnic group approximately 12,000 who live in the isolated hill regions of the Malkangiri district of southwestern Odisha, India, near the junction of the three states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and […]
“Raksha Gyan Shakti” is a mission to promote self-reliance in Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in defence. Under the mission, the target for the year 2017-18 is to train 10,000 personnel of Defence Public Sector Undertakings […]
The ‘Ex Cope India-18’ was the fourth edition in the series of bilateral drills between the Indian Air Force and the U.S. Air Force. An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered “good”, 51 and […]
Talc, or talcum, is a clay mineral consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate which finds wide use including in cosmetics, paints, ceramics. In a first-of-its-kind exercise code-named CROSS BOW-18, the Indian Air Force successfully conducted combined […]
The Kaiga nuclear power plant in western Karnataka has created a world record for the longest uninterrupted operation of 941 days, breaking the earlier record of 940 days by the Heysham plant in the United […]