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INDIA'S LABOUR MARKET INDIA'S LABOUR MARKET
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Every year, about 7-10 million young Indians enter the labour market. They are better educated than any generation before them — the average years of for...
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15-May 2026
WESTERN DISTURBANCES AND EL NINO WESTERN DISTURBANCES AND EL NINO
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India is headed into a summer of compounding extremes. A fresh Western Disturbance is set to bring unseasonal rain to the north, an El Niñ...
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12-May 2026
ORBITAR DATA CENTRE -GalaxEye Drishti GalaxEye Drishti Satellite
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First-of-its-kind satellite named Drishti by Indian start-up, GalaxEye, was launched on 3 May, 2026 by Falcon 9 rocket of SpaceX from the Vandenberg...
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11-May 2026
GOVERNOR AND CHIEF MINISTER GOVERNOR AND CHIEF MINISTER
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A day after the Trinamool Congress lost the West Bengal elections to the BJP, party chairperson Mamata Banerjee on May 5 said she would not resign ...
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07-May 2026
COMPOSITE BACKWARDNESS INDEX (CBI) COMPOSITE BACKWARDNESS INDEX (CBI)
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Poor General Caste children access private education eight times more than equally poor SC and ST children. Pick four equally poor household...
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24-Apr 2026
DELIMITATION AND PARLIAMENT SEATS DELIMITATION AND PARLIAMENT SEATS
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The Union government had introduced the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to increase the maximum number of Lok Sabha seats from the existi...
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20-Apr 2026
STAGFLATION STAGFLATION
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During the 1970s and early 1980s, most Western countries experienced “stagflation”— a condition where low, if not negative, economic growth coexisted with high inf...
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08-Apr 2026
SILVER ECONOMY SILVER ECONOMY
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India isn’t ageing yet. We are still a young country, with more than half our population under 25, and about 65 per cent under 35. But some of our states are agein...
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03-Apr 2026
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES
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Concerned about the falling value of the rupee amid the rise in oil prices and fears over inflation in the wake of the West Asia conflict, the Reserv...
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01-Apr 2026
GLOBAL TENSIONS AND INDIA'S ECONOMY GLOBAL TENSIONS AND INDIA'S ECONOMY
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Rising geopolitical instability in West Asia is forcing a reassessment of how India’s macroeconomic strength is measured.
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01-Apr 2026
NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTION (NDC) NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTION (NDC)
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On Wednesday, the Union Cabinet approved India’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). This includes committing to have 60...
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30-Mar 2026
MATERNITY LEAVE IN INDIA MATERNITY LEAVE IN INDIA
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Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that adoptive mothers could avail themselves of 12 weeks of paid maternity leave regardless of the age of their chi...
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23-Mar 2026
ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARE CATCHING FIRE - REASONS ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARE CATCHING FIRE
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A fire tore through a house in Indore on March 18, killing eight people, including two children. An electric vehicle (EV) charging point ou...
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23-Mar 2026
BRICS SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION BRICS SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION
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BRICS functions as a collaborative force aimed at establishing a multipolar world system. Cooperation in science, technology and innovation ha...
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18-Mar 2026
ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES ACT, 1955 ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES ACT, 1955
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As the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz exposed the vulnerability of India’s supply chain for cooking gas, the majority of which is imported, t...
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16-Mar 2026
