Introduction Amidst a lot of excitement, our Education Minister released the New Education Policy 2020 on July 29th. This 66-page revolutionary document seeks to undo the damage caused to our education system over the years through disastrous policies. It looks at various ways to revive India’s ailing school system through concerted and targeted measures that …
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Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary (WLS) controversy, or should I call it Aarey 2.0? It is surprising to see how the masses fall prey to vicious misinformation campaigns run on social media, whose clear aim is to ensure electoral gains for certain political parties. Elections can make the opposition parties create a mountain out of a …
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the third tranche of Modi’s 20 lakh crore economic package on 15th May. It mainly focussed on the agricultural sector. Besides measures related to strengthening infrastructure, capacity, and logistics, 3 key reforms in the sector were also announced. [You may read- What does Modi’s 20 lakh crore package mean?] This article …
The Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES) was launched on 28th March 2020. Its immediate purpose is to raise funds for fighting the novel coronavirus or COVID-19. Quite expectedly, the opposition parties started raising queries about the need for such a fund, when the PM National Relief Fund (PMNRF) …
Recently, Franklin Templeton India decided to discontinue six debt-fund schemes and stopped redemptions for the investors who had invested in these schemes. This unprecedented step by the major global investment firm led to panic among investors in the mutual fund market. The Reserve Bank of India had to announce a liquidity scheme as a confidence-building …
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While the world is reeling under a coronavirus pandemic, there has been a lot of noise about China’s ‘wet markets’. Countries have appealed to China for the closure of the same. The source of COVID-19 is unclear. Though, there is some evidence that the virus originated from bats, passed on to pangolins, and then humans. …
Yes Bank, one of India’s leading private banks, was put under moratorium by the RBI on 5th March 2020. Several restrictions were put on the functioning of the bank, and deposits were limited to Rs. 50,000 per day up to 3rd April with a maximum limit of Rs. 5 Lakhs. Meanwhile, the Government approved the …