Current Affairs

In fact, the relationship with China saw several lows in 2016 vowing to China's economic corridor through Pakistan, India's invitations to Uighur, Falun Gong and Tibetan activists, the expulsion of Chinese journalists from Mumbai, the Chinese block on Nuclear Suppliers Group membership for India

The Reserve Bank of India's biannual Financial Stability Report has again flagged the fact that risks to the banking sector remain worryingly "high".

Bihar has claimed to have formed the world's largest human chain to reaffirm commitment towards liquor ban. The chain was billed as a social message against addiction, and specifically in favour of prohibition. Over three crore people participated in the chain, stretching 11,400 km in all the 38 districts of the State.

Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India's interests.India secured amendments to the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with Singapore, effectively closing one route of laundering domestic black money by 'round-tripping' it from countries like Mauritius, Cyprus and Singapore.

The basket of vaccines in India's Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) was static for many years - until the entry of the Pentavalent [which protects against 5 infections - diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenzae Type B (Hib) in one shot], and Japanese Encephalitis vaccines in the last decade.

The Central government's recent decision to compulsorily retire two Indian Police Service (IPS) officers and one Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer for 'non-performance' is bold and laudable.

The Central government's recent decision to compulsorily retire two Indian Police Service (IPS) officers and one Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer for 'non-performance' is bold and laudable.

The Rohingya muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state are persecuted at home, rejected or barely tolerated in Bangladesh and elsewhere, and are sacrificed at the altar of strategic calculations by powerful neighbours. Moreover, the refugee crisis in Europe has overshadowed their plight.

Extreme weather and changing geography threatened food security and livelihood in Africa and Asia this year. Digitising agriculture has become a necessity to battle climate change and protect the ...

The Centre's claim of 94 million metric tonnes (MT) (2015-16) of wheat production, good sowing acreage and success of agriculture insurance scheme is not in sync with reality as government's own data do not match agriculture ministry's claims.