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The deadly Nipah Virus

The spread of Nipah Virus in the south Indian state of Kerala has affected the activities in the state in a huge way. Schools and colleges remain shut and business too has been affected badly. People in the region are avoiding travel and due to this, state transport corporation o...

Infrastructure expansion, a key focus area for India

Aviation, railways and roadways are the backbones of a country’s economy. It is very essential to modernise them for the country’s growth. The Indian government, therefore, is planning to undergo a major expansion for airports and railways.

Electronic Warfare

Technological advancements have made the defence sector more vulnerable to cyber attacks. Cyber warfare is the most dangerous threat of today. In the past decade, the defence industry changed dynamically. With the advanced technological innovations in defence, countries might get...

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Even though mass killing of human beings is not a new feature of warfare, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) pose an unparalleled constellation of challenges to peace and security. As India is becoming a major player in the world economy, it needs to have security mechanisms of it...

Indian Defence Reforms

India’s Stance on Refugees

India hosts the largest population of refugees in all of South Asia. At the end of 2016, there were 207,070 persons of concern in India, out of whom 197,851 were refugees and 9,219 were asylum seekers. As per the Global Trends report on Forced Displacement in 2016, published by t...

Growth Curve

Major reforms like demonetisation and GST brought the GDP to a three year low. However, the World Bank has stated that the Indian economy is projected to grow by 7.3 pc in 2018 and 7.5 pc in 2019 as it has recovered from the impact of demonetisation and rollout of the GST. On Oct...

Tea production at a record high

Indian tea production has reached a record high of 1325.06 million kilogram with an export of 256.57 million kilogram. The earlier record for the highest quantity of tea exports was during the financial year 1976-77 when the total quantity exported was 242.42 million kilogram.

Artificial Intelligence comes to the rescue of banks

The Indian banking sector is beginning to adopt AI (artificial intelligence) quite aggressively for both the back-office and customer facing purposes. According to a data provided by RBI, among state run banks in India, PNB topped in the number of loan fraud cases across India wi...

India tops the world in internet shutdowns

According to the UNESCO report, almost half of the numbers of shutdowns in India have been enforced in the Kashmir valley alone for prolonged periods. Five of the six largest shutdowns recorded in the time span occurred in India.

Boosting the telecom sector with the new draft policy

The telecom policy has been put in place to give all states, central agencies and other key players like telecom companies and start-ups a general idea of what they can expect from the government in the next few years.