India has been the victim of frequent fire accidents for decades. Number of fire accidents have been reported and some devastating to the extent of causing deaths of hundreds of people and causing severe damage [Read More]
The bedrock of rural health care is PHC. Each and every health assistance required by the rural population is supposed to be addressed by the PHCs and their sub-centres. In India, each PHC is responsible for one lakh population and covers around 100 villages.
India’s defence ministry had 4 different departments to deal with the military matters of the nation. Recently a 5th department i.e. Department of Military Affairs (DMA) was created under the defence ministry. The DMA will deal [Read More]
Recently UK- based Times Higher Education (THE) compiled the World University Ranking 2020 where Indian institutions failed to find a single place among the top 300.
Climate Change indicates any drastic changes in climate which has an overall harmful impact on the earth. The issue of rising global temperatures or global warming is not a new one but has been responsible [Read More]
Over 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by the Oceans and they are the storehouse of an enormous amount of renewable energy such as tidal, wave, thermal gradient and marine current. To harness these [Read More]
Radicalization refers to the phenomenon by which individuals or group of individuals exhibit radical political, social or religious ideology and aspirations that oppose and reject contemporary ideas of mainstream society of the nation. Radicalization can [Read More]
The Mineral Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020, amends the prevailing provision and puts an end to the restrictive end-use criterion for coal mine block allocations. [Read More]
Restructuring of railways is not a new concept. The idea has been doing rounds since decades. Several committees like 1994-Prakash Tandon Committee, 1998-Khanna Committee, 2001-Rakesh Mohan Committee…
Internet services were temporarily suspended across six districts (Murshidabad, Malda, North Dinajpur, North 24- Parganas, Howrah and in some parts in South 24- Parganas) of West Bengal in December 2019…
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