CURRENT AFFAIRS

The intense debates around the recently enacted farm laws have brought to light the issue of developing a sound regulatory framework to promote India’s agricultural growth.

The Election Commission of India has announced dates for elections to five Legislative Assemblies. Petition challenging the electoral bonds scheme, which deals with the vexed issue of election funding, continues to languish in the Supreme Court.

Marked annually on March 8^th, International Women's Day, is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

Recent banking system trends in India and the United States shows great amount of irony. Spurred by a lack of financial inclusion, a public banking movement is rapidly gaining traction in the United States, a bastion of free markets.

The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), launched the Cyber Crime Volunteers Programme.

Subsidised LPG prices have increased by a massive 50% in this financial year alone.This impacts the gains of the government’s flagship scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY). 

With the launch of Brazil’s Amazonia-1 satellite last week from Sriharikota, a new chapter has begun in India’s space history.

Recently , The Haryana government has introduced ‘State Employment of Local Candidates Bill 2020’ which is not only constitutionally dubious, economically myopic, and socially divisive but politically cynical too.

The Reserve Bank of India, in its report “Sectoral deployment of bank credit in India”  has highlighted the sharp decline in bank credit to parts of the economy.

The launch of Brazil’s Amazonia-1 satellite by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) comes weeks after India allowed the export of COVID-19 vaccine to Brazil, as part of its “vaccine maitri” diplomacy.