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Municipal Bonds in India

Municipal bonds (or “munis” for short) are debt obligations issued by states, cities, counties and other governmental entities to fund day-to-day obligations and to finance capital projects such...

June 6, 2017

National Agroforestry Policy

India is the first nation in the world to adopt a comprehensive agroforestry policy when it launched the National Agroforestry Policy (NAP) at the World Agroforestry Congress held...

June 6, 2017

Issues related to dam safety in India & DRIP

In the last week of February, the National Dam Safety Conference was organized by Central Water Commission (CWC) in association with Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam and IIT Roorkee....

June 6, 2017

Information Technology (Security of Prepaid Payment Instruments) Rules 2017 –Draft

In March, 2017 the Union Government has come up with Information Technology (Security of Prepaid Payment Instruments) Rules for digital transactions made through prepaid payment instruments in order...

June 6, 2017

Section 6A of Citizenship Act, 1955 and Assam Accord

The section 6A in the Citizenship Act, 1955 contains the provisions with respect to citizenship of persons covered by the Assam Accord (1985). This section was introduced through...

June 6, 2017

Long Term Irrigation Fund

To address the problems associated with perennial irrigation water crisis in rural India, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation has signed an agreement with NABARD...

June 6, 2017

Boosting Investor Confidence: Recent Legislative Steps Taken

India has been taking a number of legislative and regulatory measures for boosting the confidence of the investors and to improve the investment climate prevailing in the country....

June 6, 2017

Kashmir Shaivism: Salient Features and Contribution

Shaivism is one of the main traditions of Hinduism that reveres Lord Shiva as ultimate and supreme reality, omniscient, omnipresent and unbound and regarded as the supreme Brahman....

June 6, 2017

East Africa Famine: Reasons & Current Status

Since 2015, several countries on the eastern side of African Continent are reeling under severe drought conditions which have aggravated in 2017. In March, 2017, the United Nations...

June 6, 2017

India’s biodiversity riches increases by 499 species

According to the Animal Discoveries 2016, New Species and Records, brought out by the Zoological Survey of India and Plant Discoveries 2016, by the Botanical Survey of India, 499 new...

June 6, 2017

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