The farm sector in India is very crucial for food security of the country’s large population and for the livelihood of majority of its population. Therefore, the performance of this sector is closely monitored by the government and various measures and strategies are put in place to counter the adverse effects of various factors on this sector from time to time. These measures and strategies include several inst...
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India’s first locally built Scorpene Class Submarine Kalvari to be operational soon
INS Kalvari India’s first locally built Scorpene Class Submarine would soon be handed over to Indian Navy and sent to Indian Ocean on operational deployment. It is a class of diesel-electric attack submarine, the first of the six such submarines being built at Indian shipyard Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) at Mumbai port with the technical supp...
Sardar Sarovar Dam will Benefit Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat States
Sardar Sarovar Dam, a gravity dam on the Narmada River near Navagam, Gujarat and one of the largest dams in the world, was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of his 67th birthday on Sunday September 17, 2017. A vision of the first deputy prime minister of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and its foundation stone was laid out by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru on April...
Universal Basic Income
“In the modern world, everybody should have the opportunity to work and to thrive. Most countries can afford to make sure that everybody has their basic needs covered,” has recently been stated by Richard Charles Branson, an English business magnate, investor and philanthropist, who founded the Virgin Group that controls more than 400 companies; in support of Universal Basic Income; Continue Reading...
Education in Environment Conducive to Overall Growth to Shape Country’s Development
India has been gifted with a young population which if empowered by an educational system, under a well-structured national policy to endow its youth, with multi-dimensional intelligence with the objective of developing superior human beings, would be assets to shape the country’s development, it should:
- Imbibe Emotional Intelligence to develop tea...
Doklam Standoff a Setback for China
Doklam standoff was a deadlock between Indian and Chinese soldiers over the construction of a road by China in Dokalam region that overlooks the strategic Chumbi Valley, near the Bhutan trijunction, belongs to Bhutan and is strategically significant for India, adding tension to the Sino-Indian relation. Dokalam is the Bhutanese name of the region which is recognised by India as Doka La. Doka La ...
Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Energy
Modern economic development largely depends on the availability of energy sources and effective utilisation of these sources. The traditional energy sources largely come from the fossil fuels and over utilisation of these fuels can cause drastic environment, ecology and climate change which have been described as the biggest global health threats of the 21st century. This is affecting...
“Saraswati Supercluster” Discovery would shed Light on Density Clusters Formed Billions of Years Ago
A Supercluster of galaxies discovered by Indian astrophysicists prior to February 2016, is one of the largest, most massive and the furthest superclusters known that has been named “Saraswati Supercluster”. This supercluster is as big as 20 million billion suns, roughly more than 10 billion years old, about 4 billion light years away from Earth and spreads over a “great wall” about 600 million light years across...
Visiting Advanced Joint Research (VAJRA) Faculty Scheme to stem Migration of Trained Manpower
Visiting Advanced Joint Research (VAJRA) Faculty Scheme has recently been launched by the Prime Minister of India during the 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention at Bengaluru on 8th January 2017 on pilot basis, for initial 3-4 years with a target of enrolling 50-75 VAJRA Faculty per year by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a statutory body of the Department of Science and Te...
Sectors of Indian Economy
Economic activities are activities that result in the production of Goods and Services. Indian Economy can be classified into various sectors on the basis of ownership, working conditions of the workers and the nature of the activity being performed. Sectors are the group of economic activities classified using some important criterion. The value of final goods and services produced in each sect...