Before we get involve in debate if it is possible to distinguish between judicial review and judicial activism in India we must first try to understand what is meant by these concepts. Judicial Review as defined by the political scientists and legal luminaries is the process by which a court reviews the constitutionality of a statue or the application of a statute, and rules either for it or against it on the...
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Important Information’s About JEE Advanced 2017
The announcement of date for entrance to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) put an end to the speculation over Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2017. In the last meeting of Joint Admission Board (JAB) held at IIT Madras it has been decided that JEE Advanced 2017 will be held on May 21, 2017.
In 2012, the government run Central Board of Secondary Education ...
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor to Produce Ten Times Environment Friendly Thermal Energy from Nuclear Fusion
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering mega project, which will be the world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment. It is an experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor that is being built next to the Cadarache facility in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, south of France. Fusion power has the potential to provide sufficient en...
Insight into the Contract Theory Wins Nobel Prize Economics
Oliver Hart of the Harvard University and Bengt Holmstrom of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics on their making pioneering contributions to the Contract Theory, shedding light on how contracts help people deal with conflicting interests. Their work revolves around relatively esoteric subjects li...
Grand Innovation Challenge to Boost Entrepreneurship to Address Challenges Facing India’s Development
Grand Innovation Challenge, launched by NITI Aayog, to fundamentally and sustainably boost entrepreneurship in India with focus on providing adequate support to early stage ventures, creating an enabling environment for innovation and attaching entrepreneurship to large scale economic and social programmes, is on initiative of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reiterate the importance of Innovation and Entrepr...
Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor
Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) is the world's largest infrastructure project, with investments worth $100 billion, with the financial & technical aids from Japan, covering an overall length of 1483 kms between the national capital and the financial capital of India, i.e. Delhi and Mumbai. Inspired by Japan's Tokyo-Osaka industrial corridor, it’s a Multi-modal High Axle Load Dedicated Freig...
Digital Locker a Secured Cloud Platform for Safe Custody & Access of Essential Documents & Certificates
Digital Locker is a secure cloud platform for digital issuance, verification and storage of all essential documents and certificates. It allows citizens a shareable private space on a public cloud system wherein documents and certificates can be accessed. The electronic copies of documents and certificates such as driving licence, voter identification and school certificates can be provided by t...
Challenges of Meeting Increasing Energy Consumption with Clean and Green Energy
India’s fast economic growth faces the most challenging task of filling the gap between energy supply and demand with clean, reliable and inexpensive energy. With around 19% of India’s total population living without access to electricity, it continues to remain energy poor, although India is the 4th largest primary energy consumer in the world, after China, USA and Russia. In the total primary energy...
National Bal Swachhta Mission
National Bal Swachhta Mission launched by Ministry of Women and Child Development is a part of the nationwide sanitation initiative of ‘Swachh Bharat Mission. Since children can play an inspirational role in attaining goal of Swachch Bharat they can become harbingers of change on the front of cleanliness. Being honest and truthful their words and behaviour can motivate others to keep their homes, schools, and su...