CURRENT AFFAIRS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to Dhaka this week to commemorate an important moment in the subcontinent’s modern history i.e. Bangladesh’s Declaration of Independence from Pakistan 50 years ago.

Women everywhere carry a disproportionately higher burden of unpaid work, namely, unpaid domestic services as well as unpaid care of children, the old and the disabled for their respective households.

Asia watchers observing that China will no more remain economic growth engine in Asia rather this decade belongs to India.

After 12 march summit of QUAD, the first Leaders’ Summit of the Quadrilateral Framework, the message of the virtual meeting between leaders of Australia-India-Japan-the United States was delivered directly to Beijing.

The Centre’s Bill seeking to amend the law relating to the running of the National Capital Territory of Delhi claims that it is aimed at giving effect to the interpretation given by the Supreme Court judgments on Delhi’s governance structure.

Rajasthan government in its state budget for 2021, announced the ‘Rajasthan Model of Public Health’ (RMPH), wherein a Right to Health Bill will be brought.

The Supreme Court recently said, it was a “very serious” matter if three crore ration cards have been cancelled, including those of tribals and the poor, solely because they could not be biometrically linked with Aadhaar.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently took a swipe at Indian Administrative Service (IAS) ‘babus’ in Parliament, apparently in a spontaneous expression of frustration with the slow pace of decision-making in the bureaucracy.

Term of the original agreement between the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on inflation targeting ends on March 31, 2021.

Under the new U.S. administration, the economic relationship with India can be expected to be on the radar as India has enjoyed bipartisan support in the U.S.