CURRENT AFFAIRS

The E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules have been amended a few times and the most recent amendment is the Draft E-waste Management Rules, 2022.

Custodial deaths are common despite enormous time and money being spent on training police personnel to embrace scientific methods of investigation.

The landslide that occurred last week in the Tupul area in Manipur’s Noney district will go down as one of the severest natural disasters in the State.

A particularly compelling case for ‘Selfish Rich Inequality’ is constructed based on an analysis of the Gallup World Poll of 2018; that is, whether the rich are richer than the poor because they have been more selfish in life than the latter. 

Recently, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council met over two days in its first ‘regular’ meeting after a nine-month break in Chandigarh.

The political developments in Maharashtra throw up troubling questions about how the political class is emasculating the anti-defection law which was described by the Supreme Court of India ..

The mobilisation of private and public finance for Payments for Ecosystem Services is not get due attention in India as in many parts of the world.

Recently, the G7 allies unveiled the ambitious Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII), announcing the collective mobilisation of $600 billion by 2027 to deliver “game-changing” and “transparent” infrastructure projects to developing and middle-income countries.

Electoral promises on freebies raise several questions of sustainability, efficiency, opportunity cost and the best possible use of public money etc.

This week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended two meetings, one as a ‘special invitee’ at the 48th G7 Summit at Schloss Elmou in Germany and second a bilateral summit in Abu Dhabi with the UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan.