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.

India needs more solar-based cold storage units

Low cost manufacturing and negligible operating costs of solar powered cold storage facilities will increase the shelf life of the fruits and vegetables and make it affordable for many farmers in India. Cold storage facility is the biggest need for farmers in the country. Every y...

Pakistan’s military wants peace and dialogue with India

Pakistan’s COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa thinks that the way to peace and prosperity in his country is through military cooperation with India. The two countries along with China will take part in joint military drills in Russia, in September this year. In an attempt towards f...

Six-month jail term for abandoning and abusing parents

The government plans to increase jail term from three to six months for abusing or abandoning parents. The government also plans to widen the definition of children under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. The Narendra Modi led BJP government ...

All villages electrified but what about the houses?

According to a Bloomberg report, less than 8 pc of the newly electrified villages had all homes electrified; 30.6 million rural households in the country are yet to receive a power connection.