Relevant for Essay & GS:- Despite persistent misgivings, private equity’s love affair with healthcare in India continues. Last fortnight, global
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It’s time to reimagine social impact in a digital India
Relevant for Essay:- With recent developments in technology and increase in smartphone penetration, India is changing dramatically. For those of
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Savitribai Phule: The Role She Played in Upliftment of Girls Education
Relevant for Sociology Paper 2:- A crusader for women empowerment, Savitribai Phule’s contribution in the field of education has left
Continue readingDisruption concentration and the New Economy
Relevant for Essay:- The growing dominance of leading technology firms has occasioned an intense debate about the trade-offs between efficiency
Continue readingMore than 14 per cent villages in India don’t have any school, shows govt data
Relevant for Sociology – Disparities in Education:- New Delhi: Over 14 per cent of villages in India don’t have schools, while
Continue readingRewriting economic history: The perils of GDP backcasting: Montek S Ahluwalia
Relevant For GS & Essay:- The recently released “backcast” of the gross domestic product (GDP) series brought to mind former
Continue readingNew investments in India plunge to 14-year-low
Relevant for GS Paper 3 & Essay:- Mumbai: Dashing hopes of a quick economic turnaround, investments in the just-ended December quarter
Continue readingDirect Port Delivery Scheme.
Relevant For General Studies:- Importers who have opted for the Direct Port Delivery (DPD) scheme at the Jawaharlal Nehru Customs House (JNCH)
Continue readingA bridge over the river Brahmaputra
Relevant for General Studies:- It has taken 21 years for the Bogibeel bridge, sanctioned by the then Prime Minister H.D.
Continue readingWhen privacy, the word of the year, came into its own.
Relevant for Essay:- It’s that time of the year when it seems incumbent on us columnists to look back at
Continue readingAn attempt to understand and contextualise farmer suicides
Relevant for Sociology, Essay & GS Paper 3:- There is much discourse on both the issue of agrarian distress and
Continue readingCentre gives nod to draft Bill on Indian medicine
Relevant for GS Paper 2:- The Union Cabinet has approved the draft National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Bill,
Continue readingBeing feminine and showing it at the workplace might just be more acceptable now
Relevant for Essay:- I was among a group of professional women at Yale in November 2016 when Hillary Clinton lost
Continue readingGlobal conference on tuberculosis in India next year
Relevant for General Studies:- New Delhi: The International Union against Tuberculosis (TB) and Lung Diseases will convene its 50th Union World
Continue readingNASA’s InSight spacecraft lands on Mars after six-month journey
Relevant for General Studies:- Pasadena, California (US): A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on the
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