CURRENT AFFAIRS

The Centre has proposed amendments to the IAS (Cadre) Rules in order to exercise greater control in central deputation of IAS officials, which has often been at the centre of tussles between the Centre and the states.

Implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India was a grand experiment in cooperative federalism in which both the Union and the States joined hands to rationalise cascading domestic trade taxes and evolve a value-added tax on goods and services.

An estimate suggests that as many as 10 crore Indians may already have investments exceeding a total of $10 million in them which not only creates an avenue for generation of tax revenue for the nation but also puts forth a Herculean challenge..

Recently, the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced that it had successfully transplanted a genetically-modified pig heart into a patient with life-threatening arrhythmia.

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Saturday held talks with Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa virtually  with an assurance that India will support Sri Lanka “in all possible ways for overcoming the economic and other challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic.

The attendance of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and his Election Commissioner (EC) colleagues at an “informal” meeting with the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister has brought renewed...

On January 12, 2022 , the Supreme Court of India agreed to hear petitions asking for legal action to be taken against the organizers of, and speakers at, the “Haridwar Dharma Sansad”.

The 2020 Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), titled The Next Frontier – Human Development and the Anthropocene proposed a planetary pressure-adjusted Human Development Index (HDI).

Last month in parliament, the Standing Committee on External Affairs presented a report on ‘India and bilateral investment treaties (BITs).This report is momentous as it comes a decade after India lost the first investment treaty claim in 2011 (White Industries v. India)

The Chief Justice of India (CJI), N.V. Ramana, while speaking at the India-Singapore Mediation Summit in July 2021 had said that mediation should be made mandatory as a first step in dispute resolution and that a law should be framed in this regard.