• Broadly, central banks reveal information through statements which are plain as daylight, by scattering clues across timelines and documents so that a pattern emerges only after joining disparate dots and, finally, by embedding nuances between the lines • The…
• The recent death of at least 23 children and many others in a school bus crash in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, or of the 18 labourers in a lorry accident in Maharashtra, or of nine people in a truck mishap…
• India’s larger security environment issue is, assuming complex dimensions with a US-China trade-war looming, US-Russia relations taking a nose-dive and China’s Belt and Road masterplan unfolding in the Indo-Pacific. For India, however, it is the emerging Moscow-Beijing axis and…
==> YES • Ayushman Bharat, the new, flagship health initiative of the government, has two dimensions. => PHC with HWC roll out • First, it aims to roll out comprehensive primary health care with Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) serving…
• Most federations in the world have arrangements for the mobilisation and devolution of resources. In India, the Constitution provides for the appointment of a Finance Commission every five years to recommend methodology to share resources such that the fiscal…
• India’s rank of 103rd position in the recent World Economic Forum ranking of 130 nations on the preparedness of talent was just another indication of the skills challenge. • In just five years, the government’s skill gap analysis report…
• The recent spate of peasant protests across wide swathes of the country points sharply to the unjust folly and sheer unviability of the path of development that India has embraced, especially in the reform era since the late 1980s.…
• In a recent move, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) barred banks and other regulatory entities from dealing with cryptocurrency dealers • In January, a cyber law expert filed a public interest litigation with the Calcutta high court, demanding…
• Nineteen Indian banks are being traded at large discounts to their book value in the stock market. This in layman terms mean that the stocks are being traded at their lower than their Book value currently ie. the value…
• In the monetary policy committee meeting on 5 April, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) took two decisions which attracted wide attention. • The first constituted an inter-departmental group to guide whether the RBI can issue a central bank…
• The Court on Monday conveyed a very strong word to Centre saying that it cannot evade its legal obligation to create a mechanism to implement the SC’s final verdict in the Cauvery Dispute. The centre has been asked to…
• India recorded a marginal increase in forest cover, according to the India State of Forest Report 2017. • Around the same time this report was released, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change released a draft National Forest…
