Department of Science and Technology, under new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, is incorporating a system of grading institutes depending on the enrolment of women and advancement of careers of women faculty and scientists. o In 2015-16, share of women in scientific...

Index try to quantify the freedom of university scholars to debate politically and culturally controversial topics without fearing for their safety or studies, and without any external influence on the institutions’ affairs, based on a combination of factual data and the asses...

A recent petition filed the Kerala High Court to create a system to assist NRIs who have lost their jobs abroad and returned to India, to demand due to compensation, reveals the precarious conditions in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries of migrant workers. BACKGROUN...

For each role in government services, the programme sets competency objectives, enabling better monitoring of skills. ABOUT: The Union Government has announced Mission Karma Yogi as the largest capacity building programme for civil servants in the history of India and the worl...

Since its adoption in 1950, the Constitution of India has provided citizens with the means to enforce their guaranteed rights through different institutions, particularly the Supreme Court. In its role as the guardian of the fundamental rights that are provided in the Constitu...

The emergency was declared in 1975 by the government of Indira Gandhi and was in effect for 21 months. The reasons for the declaration were cited as risks to national security and poor economic conditions. "A renowned historian Coomi Kapoor observed, considering it as a black...

Media trials have raised concerns about the role of the media as the fourth pillar of democracy in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. TRIAL FROM THE MEDIA Trial by the press is a term that became popular in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It explains the influence of telev...

Weathering is the breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals on Earth’s surface. Water, ice, acids, salt, plants, animals, and changes in temperature are all agents of weathering. Weathering processes are responsible for formation of not only regolith and soils, but als...

CORRIE, CIRQUE OR CWM The downslope movement of a glacier from its snow-covered valley-head and the intensive shattering of the upland slopes tend to produce a depression where the firm or neve accumulates. The process of plucking deepens the depression into a steep, horse-sho...

WIND EROSION o Rock pedestals or mushroom rocks o The sand-blasting effect of winds against any projecting rock masses wear back the softer layers so that an irregular edge is formed on the alternate bands of hard and soft rocks. o Such rock pillars will be further eroded near...

METAMORPHIC ROCKS The word metamorphic means ‘change of form’. These rocks form under the action of Pressure, Volume, and Temperature (PVT) change. Metamorphism occurs when rocks are forced down to lower levels by tectonic processes or when molten magma rising through the crus...

PLATE TECTONIC THEORY A plate is a rigid lithospheric slab in the earth surface. If two tectonic plates collide, they form a convergent plate boundary. Usually, one of the converging plates will move beneath the other, which is known as subduction. Deep trenches are often form...

The World Bank (aggregate name of IBRD and IDA) is a crucial wellspring of budgetary and specialized help to creating nations around the globe. It gives low-premium advances, zero to low premium attributes, and awards to creating nations which uphold a wide cluster of interest...

India has decided to extend National Knowledge Network to Bangladesh. Prime Ministers of India and Bangladesh unveiled e-plaques for supply of buses and trucks, inauguration of 36 community clinics, 11 water treatment plants, and extension of National Knowledge Network to Bang...