1. RATIFICATION : To join the Global community in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions = Paris agreement will be ratified by INDIA...

The Bill – titled Declaration of States as Sponsor of Terrorism Bill, 2016 – aims at declaring some States as sponsors of terror and...

Getting Railways on track : WHY it made sense to present a separate railway Budget in 1924 ? Because when the first Railway Budget was...

Can a nation with an extremely diverse and dissimilar set of States amicably transition to a ‘one nation, one tax’ GST regime is the $250...

Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) to appoint judges to the Supreme Court and High Courts is finalised. Justice Verma moulded the Collegium...

WHAT IS THE CORE ISSUE ? Karnataka claims that the British-era agreement was not correct as it did not get its due share of water. On the...

More wild tiger deaths this year Death by ? poisoning , drowning etc. Why save tigers? Tigers are terminal consumers in the ecological...

: Reorganisation will hurt Adivasis: Activists. The Telangana government in its zeal for creating smaller districts for better...

Varanasi, Madurai on latest list of Smart Cities : The implementation of Smart City Mission is now spread over 27 States and Union...

: POLITY : Political malady and legal remedy : Facts : Congress govt in Arunachal Pradesh = Congress government of Nabam Tuki ; MLAs...

THE LEAD : A blow for the right to knowledge: Not a moral right : creation of course packs and the photocopying of academic material for...

Newborns in Maharashtra to be Aadhaar-linked The Maharashtra government has decided to give Aadhar number to every newborn child and link...

Forced out by a funds squeeze. 2008 : National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) launched the Prevention of Parent-to-Child Transmission...

Foreign embryos frozen in doubt : 18/09/2016 ISSUE? Human embryos of couples from across the world, frozen in liquid nitrogen at...