Rajasthan has created highest number of person days wage employment in the rural sector so far in 2020-21. Rajasthan has created 43 crore person days as of March 15. It is also reported that West Bengal has also performed very well in this respect. It created 40 crore person days. Among other ...
500 years of a West dominated world order has achieved much in terms of improved standards of living. But it has also created some existential threats to humanity such as climate change, nuclear proliferation, pandemic and terrorism. Unless a new paradigm and a new world order emerge, humanity...
The Constitution of India is the most comprehensive and superior constitution in the world. The Constituent Assembly, chaired by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, produced a unique document for the Union of India in a period of two years, eleven months and eighteen days, which along with the smooth f...
The western civilisation through a combination of breakthrough in science and technology and revolution in social, political and economic organisations has achieved a quantum leap in human development. Today we have resources for meeting total needs (though not wants) of all human beings. Unfo...
On December 15, 2020 it would be the seventieth Punyatithi – death anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Sardar Patel steered the merger of more than five hundred and fifty princely states into the Union of India after the country's freedom from Britain on August 15, 1947. This mammot...
Over the last six years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has initiated more than a hundred schemes aimed at improving the ease of living of the common man - in particular the last man in the queue. These schemes are very different in orientation from what has been envisaged in the last seventy ye...
The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) is considered to be necessary for the development sector, which receives significant foreign contributions for social, educational, religious, economic, and cultural purposes. The Act initially coined by the Indira Gandhi government in 1976 ...
The central government has issued the Unlock 4.0 guidelines. These guidelines starting from September 7, 2020, lift restrictions on a range of sectors. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said that the latest plan was aimed at reopening more economic activities outside containment zones. The guidelin...
The much-hyped Delhi-Mumbai Expressway project will now be implemented through a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV). On August 13, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) said it has formed an SPV to carry out financing, construction, and operations of the `82,514-crore project. The SPV, na...
The meaning of the Indian centuryThe Prime Minister has put forth the goal of making the 21st century India’s. In the usual discourse, this would imply India surpassing the current super-powers, US and China. That in the current geopolitical atmosphere may invite disruptive actions by the cu...
