Why in News: The India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will send a team of its experts to Pawanpur village, in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra to investigate what is believed to be remnants of a disintegrated Chinese rocket. Space debris …
Why in News: India aspires to have a permanent presence with more research and satellite ground stations in the Arctic region, suggests a perusal of its Arctic Policy document. About Arctic Arctic region, the enormous area around the North Pole …
What’s in the news? A special flight under Operation Ganga carrying 146 Indian nationals from Ukraine has landed at Hindon Airbase from Romanian capital Bucharest. Over 3,700 Indians have returned on 17 special flights after fleeing Ukraine and reaching its …
Why in News: The Russian invasion is making the global chip shortage situation worse. How did the shortage crisis begin? After reaching its peak in 2011, the laptop market growth slowed down with the rise of alternatives such as smartphones …
Context China’s status as a ‘developing country’ at the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become a contentious issue with a number of countries raising concerns over the upper middle-income nation deriving benefits reserved for developing countries under WTO norms. Moreover, …
Why in News: China is constructing a bridge in Eastern Ladakh connecting the North and South Banks of Pangong Tso which would significantly bring down the time for People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to move troops and equipment between the two …
Why in news? Recently, the heads of the world’s major economies—the Group of 20 (G20) nations has approved a new global minimum corporate tax. The deal, announced at the G20 summit in Rome, Italy, is “historic” since this is the …
What’s in the news? The European Commission announced a plan to mobilise €300 billion ($340 billion) in public and private infrastructure investment around the world, a move seen as a response to China’s Belt and Road strategy. The Global Gateway …
What’s in the news? The 9th Meeting of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime was recently held. During the meeting, emerging traditional and non-traditional security threats …
CONTEXT India does not have a tradition of shadow cabinets, which remains behind the government in power with ready alternative approaches to policy matters. Here the opposition challenges government policies, but provides no alternatives to be adopted in the event …