Low earth orbit extends to 2000 km from the earth’s surface. It mainly includes satellites for observation and reconnaissance. Issues due to crowding of lower earth orbit: Space...
BharatNet is touted as the world’s largest connectivity project. The features of the BharatNet project are: The project envisages laying of about 8 lakh kilometre of incremental optical...
Much has been debated about the need of prison reforms in the India. But very little has been moved in this direction even after reports submitted by many...
El Nino and the Indian monsoon are inversely related. Monsoons have generally been poor in the El Nino years, with most of India’s droughts occurring in the El...
The clean environment cess or the green cess is a form of tax levied by the government with the purpose of environment conservation. It is a fiscal tool...
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has recently issue guidelines to all states to take strict action in cases of crimes against women and adhere strictly to guidelines...
To ensure better targeting and to eliminate leakages and corruption, the Department of Fertilizers had introduced a new model of the Direct benefit transfer (DBT) Scheme. As per...
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by the RBI governor has released the new monetary policy which outlines the following decisions: The repo rate which is the key...
Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is a government-run health insurance programme for the poor. It provides health insurance coverage to the unrecognized sector workers belonging to the BPL category and their family members....
Indian constitution is a written constitution with judicious mix of flexibility and rigidity. Art 368 enumerates the provisions and procedure for amendment of different parts of the constitution....
