If the past few years of enhanced measures against non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in India had not put enough of a squeeze on them, then the Ministry of Home Affairs’s long-drawn-out process of scrutinising their [Read More]
The health system in India has been facing unprecedented stress during the COVID-19 pandemic which includes the looming Omicron threat now on the horizon. Against this backdrop, the recently released fifth edition of the National [Read More]
In 1957, unhappy with the demarcation of boundaries, Maharashtra demanded realignment of its border with Karnataka. It invoked Section 21 (2) (b) of the Act, and submitted a petition to the Union Ministry of Home [Read More]
With the advent of computers and the internet, and with virtually everything confined under the system of ‘Internet of Things’, a gigantic amount of data is generated continuously. The ever-expanding horizon of ‘Data’ is now [Read More]
An economic theory that applies modern economic tools and analysis to study issues associated often with political science has been considered as Public Choice. James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock developed this theory. The public choice [Read More]
The Union Government hastily passed a Bill to link voter IDs with Aadhaar cards. Such arbitrary approaches without sufficient deliberation have become the norm, it seems. The Government claims that the move will prevent frauds [Read More]
On December 25, the Ministry of Home Affairs declined to renew the registration of Missionaries of Charity under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. The Ministry stated that the FCRA registration of Missionaries of Charity, a [Read More]
India has approved two more vaccines, Corbevax and Covovax, under emergency use authorization, as well as an antiviral drug, Molnupiravir to fight against COVID-19. However, India’s expanded vaccination drive from January 3 will not immediately [Read More]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), hurled into space by the Ariane 5 rocket from European Space Agency’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America, on December 25, at 7:20 am EST (5:50 pm IST), is [Read More]
The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) recently notified the imposition of anti-dumping duty on five products manufactured in China in order to safeguard domestic producers from lower-priced imports that the Directorate General [Read More]
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