CURRENT AFFAIRS

Recent banking system trends in India and the United States shows great amount of irony. Spurred by a lack of financial inclusion, a public banking movement is rapidly gaining traction in the United States, a bastion of free markets.

The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), launched the Cyber Crime Volunteers Programme.

Subsidised LPG prices have increased by a massive 50% in this financial year alone.This impacts the gains of the government’s flagship scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY). 

With the launch of Brazil’s Amazonia-1 satellite last week from Sriharikota, a new chapter has begun in India’s space history.

Recently , The Haryana government has introduced ‘State Employment of Local Candidates Bill 2020’ which is not only constitutionally dubious, economically myopic, and socially divisive but politically cynical too.

The Reserve Bank of India, in its report “Sectoral deployment of bank credit in India”  has highlighted the sharp decline in bank credit to parts of the economy.

The launch of Brazil’s Amazonia-1 satellite by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) comes weeks after India allowed the export of COVID-19 vaccine to Brazil, as part of its “vaccine maitri” diplomacy.

Joe Biden administration is facing many foreign policy challenges but none is more critical than salvaging the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, or the Iran nuclear deal).

Financial Action Task Force has decided once again to keep Pakistan on its ‘grey list’ of countries under ‘increased monitoring’, giving it another three months to complete its commitments.

The Indian economy appears to have turned the corner. After two consecutive quarters of contraction, it grew by 0.4 per cent in the third quarter of the current financial