Background: Published by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Concern Worldwide, an Irish aid agency, and Welthungerhilfe, a German private aid organisation, the Global Hunger Index tracks hunger worldwide. The…
All about the idea of having dedicated personnel for public health management: Committees in the past: The idea of having dedicated personnel for public health management goes back to 1959…
Deals with the India’s Foreign Policy (PM’s Visit to US & Israel) The U.S. visit: The Prime Minister charted a time-tested course, concentrating mainly on counter-terrorism and the defence security…
Introduction: India is indeed the fastest growing large economy in the world; yet with investment low, credit offtake low, capacity utilisation in industry low, agricultural growth low, plant load factor…
Introduction: Indian growth indicators have been in constant decline, in the April-June quarter, growth plummeted to a dismal 5.7 per cent. The growth for fiscal 2017-18 is projected to be…
Introduction: Hundreds of trains hurtle across, carrying millions of passengers. The “braking distance” is no more than about two-thirds of a kilometre (against only about 200 ft on the highways).…
Introduction: The Centre has informed the Supreme Court that it is vetting a draft law to permit “passive euthanasia” – The Medical Treatment of Terminally Ill Patients (Protection of Patients…
With the India Meteorological Department getting its monsoon forecast wrong this year, its modelling has necessarily come under the spotlight. What goes wrong? In April, the IMD had predicted “near…
Tri-service integration: Supremacy and primacy of the Army in a joint services environment” should be maintained. The other services, the Navy and Air Force, will play a very major role…
India needs a uniform civil code for two principal reasons. First, a secular republic needs a common law for all citizens rather than differentiated rules based on religious practices. This…
