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Future of tourism: Is India ready ?

If India is to become the third-largest tourism economy by 2028, the country must focus on offering opportunities that allow talent to work on new and innovative projects—with a promise of continued learning and growth. This year, for the first time in the history of India’s travel and tourism sector, we were named the host […]

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Ease of doing business rankings

India climbing up 14 positions in the latest ease of doing business (EoDB) rankings—the 2020 report was released on Thursday—is good news for the country, which is struggling with a slowdown. While the report lauds the government’s efforts in implementing taxation reforms (GST), the real change has been in resolving insolvency. India’s score has improved […]

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NITI Aayog launches India Innovation Index 2019

NITI Aayog launches India Innovation Index 2019 Karnataka tops the Innovation Index followed by Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Delhi NITI Aayog with Institute for Competitiveness as the knowledge partner released the India Innovation Index (III) 2019. Karnataka is the most innovative major state in India. Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Telangana, Haryana, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh form […]

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UPPSC 2019 NOTIFICATION

2019 पीसीएस का नोटीफिकेशन जारी.UPPCS2019 समाज कार्य और रक्षा शास्त्र बिषय सूची से हटाए गए. लगभग 300 सीटों पर आवेदन माँगे गए. कुल सीटों के केवल 13 गुणा अभ्यर्थी ही होंगे प्री पास. इण्टरव्यू के लिए प्रति सीट सिर्फ 2 अभ्यर्थी बुलाए जाएंगे. UPPSC 2019 NOTIFICATIONTotal post more than 300.Last date=13th nov http://uppsc.up.nic.in/View_Enclosure.aspx?ID=107&flag=E&FID=544

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Kerala tops Niti Aayog’s School Education Quality Index; U.P. is worst performer

NITI Aayog releases School Education Quality Index (SEQI) Kerala, Manipur and Chandigarh top in overall performance Haryana, Meghalaya, Daman & Diu show most improvement in the first edition of index. School Education Quality Index (SEQI) was developed by NITI Aayog to evaluate the performance of States and Union Territories (UTs) in the school education sector. […]

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The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2019

India ranked 34th on world travel, tourism competitiveness index: Report For over a decade the World Economic Forum engaged leaders in travel and tourism to carry out an in-depth analysis of the travel and tourism (T&T) competitiveness. Published biennially, Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report and Index benchmarks the T&T competitiveness of 140 economies and measures […]

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Democracy and its discontents

Civilisation progresses with the evolution of institutions designed by humans to govern their affairs. Institutions of electoral democracy have evolved over the centuries, with notable innovations in the U.K., France and the U.S. that provided models for electoral democracies everywhere. These models have been vigorously exported by Western countries to promote democracy around the world. […]

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What is China’s One Country Two Systems policy?

Protests in Hong Kong, now in its 13th consecutive week, have brought a decades-old policy of the People’s Republic of China back into focus — One Country Two Systems. The protesters, who started occupying the city’s streets in April after the local government proposed a controversial extradition law, say Beijing is trying to violate this policy by […]

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