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Prospects for Cashless Economy in India

Cashless Economy is when the flow of cash within an economy is non-existent and all transactions have to be through electronic channels such as direct debit, credit and...

December 29, 2015

Hmar Insurgency in Mizoram

The Hmars are a group of tribal people living in three states of North East India-Assam, Manipur and Mizoram. Although the Hmar identity is strong enough, the Mizos...

December 29, 2015

Peaceful Rise of China

The very concept of ‘Peaceful Rise’ (hepingjueqi) was introduced by the famous Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intellectual named Zheng Bijian in November 3, 2003 at an address made...

December 29, 2015

Socio-political Implications of the Aryan Invasion Theory

In recent times, Aryan Invasion theory was making news because the RSS uses the term Vanavasis for tribals and not Adivasis. The idea is to portray that all...

December 29, 2015

Draft Labour Code

In April 2015, the Ministry of Labour and Employment had issued a draft Labour Code on Industrial Relations Bill, 2015 aimed at consolidation of the existing central labour...

December 29, 2015

Various Issues Related to Labour in India

The Article 246 (with 7th schedule) of the Indian constitution puts the issues related to labour and labour welfare under the concurrent list. However, the exceptional matters related...

December 29, 2015

Technology Acquisition and Development Fund

The National Manufacturing Policy had proposed establishment of a Technology Acquisition and Development Fund (TADF) for acquisition of clean, green and energy efficient technologies. Establishment of this fund...

December 29, 2015

National Resource Facility for Bio-medical Research

The Union Cabinet has recently (November 2015) approved setting up of a National Resource Facility for Bio-medical Research (NARF) at Genome Valley in Hyderabad under the Indian Council for Medical...

December 29, 2015

Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force

Red Sanders (Pterocarpus santalinus), which has been classified as endangered in 1997 in IUCN red-list is endemic to forests of Seshachalam, Veliganda, Lankamala and Palakonda hill range distributed...

December 29, 2015

Indiscriminate use of Drugs in the poultry

A CSE study in 2014 had revealed that indiscriminate use of Drugs in the poultry is also one of the key reasons of growing antibiotic resistance in humans....

December 29, 2015

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