The Union Cabinet has approved the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. This policy paves way for a bunch of ‘fundamental reforms’ in higher education. Academicians across the country are divided over the possible implications of the new policy.With foundational pillars of access, equity, quali...
Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, has stated in an official letter to NS Nigam, Health Secretary, West Bengal, “To keep mortality less than 1%, weekly case fatality needs to be monitored.”West Bengal is being criticised for inad...
Industrial output for June was published recently and it has been the fourth consecutive month showing an overall decline. According to data released by the central government - seven out of the eight core sector industries, namely, coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, steel, cement and ...
The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has given the state governments permission to implement localised lockdowns in Unlock 3.0. However, this has not helped to lift the uncertainty that has been prevailing over the road transport sector. In most of the states, partial road transportation is now being...
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) published an advisory titled ‘Recommendations Unlock 3.0’ in July, 2020 suggesting areas that need immediate attention for relaxations to revive soon.The federation mentioned a series of safety measures the sectors should follo...
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced people to stay at home. But for every citizen, it is not always a viable option - especially for frontline workers like doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.A section of people is still attending offices - either rotationally or every day. In that...
India is the second highest consumer of gold after China. But the global pandemic has put the segment under pressure. The country’s economically vulnerable situation has echoed in its gold market. Imports of gold dropped drastically (around 86% year-on-year) during June because of the di...
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has recently published data which states that the life insurance sector has witnessed a year-on-year (Y-o-Y) deceleration of 4.24% in the first quarter of FY 2021. Additionally, CARE Ratings recently revealed that owing to the...
The nationwide lockdown has left a direct impact on the textile industry. The sector offers employment to more than 45 million people in India and has a large number of segments like fabric supply, dyeing, labelling, light metallic clothing accessories manufacturing and ancillary textile...
A Singapore-based cyber firm has recently alerted that Indian companies, banks and even ministries can be the major targets of Chinese hackers. The official site of Indian Railways also came under cyber-attack recently. A number of Indian citizens received mails incorporating fake links offeri...