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DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
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The unfolding clash of aspirations of workers and entrepreneurs in India has the potential to convert India’s demographic dividend into a demographic curse i...
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20-Apr 2024
BRAHMOS MISSILE BRAHMOS MISSILE
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India’s BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles were delivered to the Philippines on Friday (April 19 2024), as part of a $375 million deal signed by the two countries...
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20-Apr 2024
VOLUNTARY CODE OF ETHICS
VOLUNTARY CODE OF ETHICS
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Acting on takedown requests by the Election Commission of India (EC), X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday announced that it had withheld four posts — one eac...
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19-Apr 2024
MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE (MMR) MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE (MMR)
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The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is funding a study to analyse the number of maternal deaths because of heart diseases and dev...
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19-Apr 2024
GROSS FIXED CAPITAL FORMATION
GROSS FIXED CAPITAL FORMATION
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The Indian economy has grappled with a significant challenge: the stagnation of private investment, measured by the proportion of private Gross ...
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19-Apr 2024
SPACE TOURISM
SPACE TOURISM
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Entrepreneur and pilot Gopi Thotakura is set to become the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist on the NS-25 mission of Blue Origin a company founded by ...
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18-Apr 2024
LEFT-WING EXTREMISM LEFT-WING EXTREMISM
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Recently, At least 29 Maoists were killed and three security personnel were injured in a gunbattle in a forest in Kanker district of Bastar division i...
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18-Apr 2024
IMD MONSOON FORECAST IMD MONSOON FORECAST
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This is the first time in a decade that the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted “above normal” rainfall at the first stage itself, nearly 45 ...
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17-Apr 2024
IMPORTED INFLATION
IMPORTED INFLATION
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The Asian Development Bank recently warned that India could face imported inflation as the rupee could depreciate amid the rise in interest rates in the West. A r...
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17-Apr 2024
SOVEREIGN GREEN BONDS
SOVEREIGN GREEN BONDS
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Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved investments in India's Sovereign Green Bonds (SGrBs) by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs). The...
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17-Apr 2024
ELECTION AND VOTING PROCESS
ELECTION AND VOTING PROCESS
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The Supreme Court has decided to hear petitions seeking 100% cross-verification of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with the...
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17-Apr 2024
WHOLESALE PRICE INDEX (WPI) WHOLESALE PRICE INDEX (WPI)
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The headline wholesale price index ( WPI)based inflation inched up to a three-month high of 0.53 per cent in March from 0.2 per cent in February.
It t...
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16-Apr 2024
HYDROCARBON
HYDROCARBON
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Over countless years, powerful geological forces within the earth's crust transformed and fused remnants of once-living organisms that had long since perished. ...
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16-Apr 2024
OPERATION MEGHADOOT
OPERATION MEGHADOOT
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As April 13, 2024, approaches, it marks four decades since the audacious move by the Indian Army to pre-empt Pakistan and assert control over the glacier...
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16-Apr 2024
DOUBLE TAXATION AVOIDANCE AGREEMENT(DTAA)
DOUBLE TAXATION AVOIDANCE AGREEMENT(DTAA)
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India has signed a protocol amending the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with Mauritius to plug treaty abuse for tax evasi...
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15-Apr 2024
