1960 treaty mandates commissioners to inspect sites, therefore, Commissioners from both sides have to inspect once in 5 years. Altogether, 118 inspection tours on both sides undertaken since 1960. India’s last inspection tour was held in in September 2014 whereas Pakistan’s last inspection tour was held in July 2013. Current tour by Pakistan was originally scheduled…
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Industry 4.0 refers to a new phase in the Industrial Revolution that focuses heavily on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data. Industry 4.0, also sometimes referred to as IIoT or smart manufacturing, marries physical production and operations with smart digital technology, machine learning, and big data to create a more holistic and better connected…
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The year 2018 has been majorly significant because of the much awaited reforms in the defense forces thereby strengthening India’s national security. The highlight issues of the year gone by are: – What was the much debated Rafale deal issue? The opposition stirred up controversy around the Rafale planes procured by the current government. The…
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In the past year, there has been change of government in most of the neighboring countries of India. The improvement in relationship between China and Russia can be influential to India’s interests in the world order. Moreover China’s BRI initiative has helped them get access to the deep routes in various south Asian countries. According…
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India is home to more than 5,000 large dams (over 15 metre high), the third largest number in the world, behind the US and China. India has thousands of large dams that are more than 25 yrs old and 164 dams that are more than 100 yrs old. Around 15% of India’s land mass is…
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“Equality is not just treating equals equally, Equality is in treating unequals unequally” India has been under the clutches of the evil caste system from the ancient period. This evil practise has created a huge rift amongst the people belonging to different caste groups and has led to stagnation of the growth of our society.…
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WATER – A STRATEGIC RESOURCE Water is a cross cutting element for economic development. The ecosystem’s water requirement needs to be met. Water is strategically important and is highly influential to other sectors like health, education, etc. ASTONISHING STATISTICS Almost 60 crore Indians facing water stress Annually 2 lakh people die because…
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New National Forest Policy, 2018 Forests are the lungs of the world and are extremely crucial for the world’s existence. Hence, we shouldn’t ignore their well being at any cost. India has been following its National forest policy of 1988 and has taken necessary steps to ensure increase in the forest cover and worked…
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Pure water is world’s first and foremost medicine. But in the recent times, finding pure water is hardly possible even in the well treated packaged drinking water bottles. With every sip of what we think is pure water, we are intaking thousands of microplastics. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced a review into the…
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Many dreams turn into reality in the cities of our country, where each day people from rural and remote areas migrate to the urban cities in search of opportunities carrying millions of dreams and hopes in their minds. Cities are great inventions because they are powerful enough to make or break peoples’ lives…
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