Kerala passes resolution against offshore mining

The Kerala Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution opposing the Centre's plan to permit off-shore mining along the State's coast. 

Double trouble

The integrity of the electoral system in India is dependent upon the confidence re-posed in it by prospective voters and the participatory political parties. In recent years, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has drawn flak - from overblown to deserved reasons – from political parties and civil society activists concerned about trends in Indian democracy. 

Remodelling the UAE-India aviation partnership

Navi Mumbai International Airport has the potential to serve as a game-changer in taking India's aviation sector to exciting new heights, providing new avenues for the Indian travelling public to benefit from an increasingly interconnected world. 

Designing India's Al Safety Institute

India's Artificial Intelligence (AI) ambitions took a significant leap forward when Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the country would launch an indigenous Al model and establish an AI Safety Institute (AISI) under the Safe and Trusted Pillar of the IndiaAI Mission. 

Government talks big on gender budget, delivers little

The Union and State governments regularly talk about their commitment to women's empowerment. One of the four pillars of a Viksit Bharat 2047 is mahila or woman. The Finance 

Minister mentioned women several times in her 74-minute speech during the Union Budget. 

What are the issues around delimitation?

Delimitation means the process of fixing the number of seats and boundaries of territorial constituencies in each State for the Lok Sabha and Legislative assemblies. 

How the Wallace line explains the difference in species across continents

In the late 19th century, the English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace noticed a dramatic shift in the composition of organisms as he moved from Asia to Australia, New Guinea, and other islands nearby. He posited an invisible barrier in the ocean, later called the Wallace line, running between the islands of Bali and Lombok, striking north between Borneo and Sulawesi before curving south of Mindanao.

States need to protect patients from being fleeced by private hospitals, says SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed States to consider framing guidelines to ensure patients are not "exploited" or compelled by private hospitals to buy medicines, implants, consumables and medical devices at inflated prices from their own pharmacies or outlets.

SC directs States, U.T.s to provide full records of forest lands in 6 months

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a stern warning that the Chief Secretaries of the States and the Administrators of the Union Territories would be held personally liable if they failed to constitute expert committees to identify forests in their respective jurisdictions in a month, followed by the preparation of consolidated records of these lands within the next six months.

India hit targeted maternal mortality rate of 100 deaths per lakh live births

India has achieved the National Health Policy (NHP) target of a maternal mortality rate (MMR) of 100 deaths per one lakh live births, 

Belgium defence giant ties up with Indian firm to manufacture tank turrets

Belgium's John Cockerill Defence (JCD), the world's top-turret manufacturer for battle tanks, and the Pune-based Electro Pneumatics & Hydraulics (EPH) Pvt. Ltd. announced a Joint Venture (JV) in India with initial focus on the Indian Army's light tank contest under way.

IMF: overexposure by NBFCs may imperil financial system

Stress in non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) may pose risk in the financial system due to their overexposure to power and infrastructure sector and interconnectedness with other markets, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report.

'Blue Ghost moon landing part of U.S. plan to dominate space'

Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete to reach the frontlines of a global moon race.