The Narendra Modi government started its innings in 2014 with a constitutional amendment giving the government a vital say in the appointment of judges. But the apex court struck it down as unconstitutional in 2016 as the amendment undermined the primacy of the opinion of the Chief Justice of India in judicial appointments, which the Court said […]
Read MoreThe govt’s proposal to expand the country’s affirmative action agenda implicitly shows how electoral behaviour continues to be defined around religious and caste denominations On Monday the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government moved to expand the country’s affirmative action agenda. It has proposed 10% reservation for the economically weaker sections in […]
Read MoreMost economic policy follows an entropic path. The first iteration is a relatively clean structure that gets complicated either as experience kicks in or interest groups begin to get their way. The Indian tryst with indirect tax reform seems to be moving in the opposite direction—from chaos to order. The initial version of the new […]
Read MoreMoves for reservations on economic grounds are more about politics than social justice Rattled by the erosion in upper caste votes in the recent Assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, the BJP government has attempted to recover this traditional vote base through an unapologetic political manoeuvre. It has sought to provide a 10% quota […]
Read MoreQuestion: 09/01/2019: What do you mean by a fugitive economic offender? Critically discuss the Fugitive Economic Offender Act, 2018.150 words . भगोड़े आर्थिक अपराधी से आपका क्या मतलब है? गंभीर रूप से भगोड़े आर्थिक अपराधी अधिनियम, 2018 पर चर्चा करें | 150 शब्दों
Read MoreResearchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have experimentally shown that methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) can exist as gas hydrates at temperatures and pressures seen in interstellar atmosphere. Gas hydrates are formed when a gas such as methane gets trapped in well-defined cages of water molecules forming crystalline solids. In terrestrial conditions, gas […]
Read MoreQuestion:08/01/2019:“India’s unprecedented economic growth during the last two decades has been spearheaded by lopsided urbanization and spatial economic development” Discuss the causes and impact of skewed urbanization and development.200 word “पिछले दो दशकों के दौरान भारत की अभूतपूर्व आर्थिक वृद्धि एकतरफा शहरीकरण और स्थानिक आर्थिक विकास से प्रभावित हुई है” विषम शहरीकरण और विकास के […]
Read MoreThe man in the moon never seems to look away from the Earth. During its different phases, the Earth’s only natural satellite changes shape, but the sentinel never seems to disappear from his heavenly seat. The first human-made object to touch down on the moon, the Luna-2 of the erstwhile Soviet Union, landed in his […]
Read MoreA robust performance of the agriculture and manufacturing sectors will drive India’s economic growth at 7.2 per cent in 2018-19, the Central Statistics Office said on Monday. This is higher than the 6.7 per cent growth witnessed in the previous fiscal, which slumped due to twin effects of demonetisation and introduction of Goods and Services […]
Read MoreIndia’s unprecedented economic growth during the last two decades has been spearheaded by lopsided spatial development, with clusters of economic activity concentrated in a few highly dense megacities. Engines of growth have failed to spread to less dense secondary cities. Given that a majority of the population in India still lives outside megacities, this has […]
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