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 therapy facility, Proteus 235, is the first of its kind in India and South-East Asia. The license is issued by … Continue reading Proton Therapy

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 disparities, with 81 districts in the country not having a blood bank at all. On the other hand, it must … Continue reading Blood Banks in India.

The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to allow card payment providers to offer tokenisation services will ensure the safety of digital transactions and reduce chances of fraud. Tokenisation involves a process in which a unique token masks sensitive card details like card and CVV number. The token is used to perform card transactions in … Continue reading Tokenisation.

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 farmers, landless rural labour, and hundreds of millions of workers living on the edge in low-paying, ‘flexible’ forms of employment … Continue reading Inequality and Basic Income

  1 What is angel tax? The ‘angel tax’ is a tax on the excess capital raised by an unlisted company through the issue of shares over and above the fair market value of those shares. This excess capital is treated as income and taxed accordingly. This tax most commonly affects start-ups and the angel … Continue reading Angel Tax

(Data in this article as on September, 2018). This article is also relevant for any topic related to ‘global trade war’. United States (US) has recently imposed higher duties on imports to spur local manufacture and increase jobs in the US. Along these lines, the US has pressurized India to import at least $10 billion … Continue reading India-US Trade Gap.

This article is the second part of the ‘Climate Change’ series of articles. Read Part I here. ‘Climate Change’ is a hot topic for UPSC. Questions from this topic can be expected in the essay paper or any other general studies paper. Therefore, in order to cover various aspects and dimensions of this topic we … Continue reading Climate Change – Part II

This article is the fifth part of the ‘Education’ series of articles. Read Part IV here. ‘Education ’ is a hot topic for UPSC. Questions from this topic can be expected in the essay paper or any other general studies paper. Therefore, in order to cover various aspects and dimensions of this topic we bring to … Continue reading EDUCATION SERIES – PART V