CURRENT AFFAIRS

As many as 12 Indian institutions have achieved top 100 positions in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021, with three Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) making it to top 50 this time.

The Economic Survey rightly flagged the issue of a growing food subsidy bill, which “is becoming unmanageably large”.

Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, known briefly as Quad, would soon meet at summit level (for the first time), thus signalling the importance attached to this grouping by the Biden administration.

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). 

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 Indian economy appears to have turned the corner. After two consecutive quarters of contraction, it grew by 0.4 per cent in the third quarter of the current financial

The government announced The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

NEP 2020 will bring many changes in education ecosystem which seeks to break the dogma of testing only what is written in the textbooks.

Four Ruling MLAs haveresigned from the Puducherry government led by CM Narayanasamy, throwing the government in the Union Territory in a fresh crisis.