General Consent For The CBI: Withdrawn By Meghalaya Meghalaya has withdrawn consent to the CBI to investigate cases in the state, becoming the ninth state to have taken this step. Eight other states which had withdrawn consent to the CBI: Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, and Mizoram. In November last year, the […]
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Democracy Report 2022: Important Points
Democracy Report 2022: Important Points The V-Dem Institute at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg has come out with their annual democracy report. The study is titled ‘Democracy Report 2022: Autocratisation Changing Nature?’. The report classifies countries into four regime types based on their score in the Liberal Democratic Index (LDI): Liberal Democracy, Electoral Democracy, Electoral Autocracy, […]
Artificial Intelligence In eCourt Projects
Artificial Intelligence In eCourt Projects: During the 2022 Budget session of Parliament, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said that while implementing Phase 2 of the eCourt projects, under operation since 2015, a need was felt to adopt new, cutting-edge technologies of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to increase the efficiency of the justice delivery […]
Who Won The Boltzmann Medal 2022?
Who Won The Boltzmann Medal 2022? Deepak Dhar, physicist, from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, has been selected for the Boltzmann medal, awarded by the Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. He has been chosen for this award for his contributions in the […]
Monetary Policy Committee: Inflation Target
Monetary Policy Committee: RBI The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) noted that the central bank’s accommodative policy stance may fail to comply with the Inflation target (upper limit of 6%). An accommodative stance indicates a willingness on the part of the central bank to expand money supply and cut […]
SARAS 3 Radio Telescope
SARAS 3 Radio Telescope: Indian researchers have conclusively refuted a recent claim of the discovery of a radio wave signal from cosmic dawn, the time in the infancy of our Universe when the first stars and galaxies came into existence. In 2018 a team of researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) and MIT in the […]
India Abstained On A Vote At The UN Human Rights Council
India abstained On A Vote At The UN Human Rights Council: India abstained on a vote at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva as the Council decided to set up an international commission of enquiry into Russia’s actions in Ukraine. The resolution “strongly condemned” aggression by Russia in Ukraine. Russian troops recently captured Zaporizhzhia […]
Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missile
Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missile: The Indian Navy successfully demonstrated the accuracy of an extended-range land attack Brahmos supersonic cruise missile from the stealth destroyer INS Chennai, on 5th March, 2022. The missile hit its intended target with pinpoint accuracy after traversing an extended range trajectory and performing complex manoeuvres. Both Brahmos missile and INS Chennai […]
What is Predatory Pricing?
Predatory Pricing: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has dismissed allegations of predatory pricing against e-commerce platform Shopee arguing that Shopee did not hold significant market power as it is a relatively new entrant in a market with well-established players. Predatory pricing is the illegal act of setting prices low to attempt to eliminate the […]
Belarus: Important Points
Belarus: Belarus, the largest landlocked European country bordering the two warring nations has found itself in a precarious position amid its political proximity with Russia. The country is now at the receiving end of the West’s economic sanctions, meant to deter the Russian assault on Ukraine. The Belarusian border serves as the site for dialogue […]
