Second bridge in bullet train project completed Context : The National High-Speed Rail Corporation Ltd. (NHSRCL), the implementing organisation for the bullet train project to connect Mumbai and Ahmedabad, faced many difficulties when building a 360-meter-long bridge across the Purna river between Bilimora and Surat […]
News consumption falls in India, says study Context: The Reuters Institute Digital News Report, 2023, published on Wednesday, found that overall news consumption and sharing in India decreased from last year’s figures along with a sharp decline in access to online news (-12 percentage points), […]
Why did the govt impose a ceiling on wheat stocks? Context: The amount of wheat that merchants, wholesalers, retailers, large chain shops, and processors may hold is regulated by the Union Government. The goal is to maintain supply to stabilise the price of the necessary […]
Strengthening the ICDS Scheme Context: To combat this, India needs to improve its current social sector programmes, such as the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). The ICDS addresses non-formal preschool education, targeting children aged 0 to 6 years, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers, and ends […]
Male-centric medicine is affecting women’s health Context: Despite a growing corpus of evidence that insists on physiological differences (beyond the reproductive organs) between the sexes, the male model of medicine is flourishing, as is the tendency to treat women as smaller men. There is also […]
The next Finance Commission will have a tough task Context : In the next months, the government will appoint a Finance Commission to decide how much of the tax money from the Centre should be distributed to States (the vertical share) and how that should […]
HAP to take AI governance global Context : On May 19–21, 2023, Japan hosted the G-7 Summit, which took place in Hiroshima. To control artificial intelligence, the Hiroshima AI Process (HAP) was started by the leaders. The G-7 nations might advance towards a diverse regulatory […]
Musings on the frictions in India-Canada ties Context : On June 4 in Brampton, Canada, there was a pro-Khalistani demonstration. At one point, two troops pointed their rifles at a woman wearing a white sari who was bloodied. “Revenge of attack on Shri Darbar Sahib” […]
