Background With COVID-19 and trade tensions between China and the United States threatening supply chains or actually causing bottlenecks, Japan has mooted the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) as a trilateral approach to trade, with India and Australia as the …
What is Priority Sector Lending? Priority Sector means those sectors which the Government of India and Reserve Bank of India consider as important for the development of the basic needs of the country and are to be given priority over …
Renati Cholas The Telugu Cholas of Renadu (Renati Cholas) ruled over Renadu region, the present day Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. The earliest of this family was Nandivarman (500 AD). They were originally independent, later forced to the suzerainty of …
About Astrosat ASTROSAT is India’s first dedicated multi wavelength space observatory. This scientific satellite mission endeavours for a more detailed understanding of our universe. ASTROSAT is designed to observe the universe in the Visible, Ultraviolet, low and high energy X-ray …
About Merchandise export from India scheme: Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) is one of the two schemes introduced under Foreign Trade Policy of India (FTP 2015-20), as a part of Exports from India Scheme. The other scheme is Service …
What is it? Telecom operators are required to pay licence fee and spectrum charges in the form of ‘revenue share’ to the Centre. The revenue amount used to calculate this revenue share is termed as the Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR). …
Context This article analyses the possibility of India attaining the goal of becoming an alternative supply source and investment destination to China. India’s strength India’s identity as a democratic “un-China” is one of its strengths. India’s open and vibrant press, …
Context The World Bank halted its annual publication, ‘Doing Business’ report, on data authenticity issues (as it detected irregularities of data for a few countries). A systematic review and assessment of data changes that occurred subsequent to the institutional data …
About Question Hour The first hour of every parliamentary sitting is slotted for the Question Hour. During this one hour, Members of Parliament (MPs) ask questions to ministers and hold them accountable for the functioning of their ministries. It is …