Lok Sabha TV- Public Forum: Exploring Gender Pay Gap A few surveys conducted by Monster India and Accenture in the last few days present a very dismal picture of presence of women and their growth in workplaces. It showed that women earn 25% less than men for the same job. While it …
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The Big Picture: SAARC -Indus talks| India-Pakistan ties India has accepted Pakistan’s invitation to attend the next Permanent Indus Commission meeting that will be held in Lahore in March. The development comes after Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi in September 2016 had declared that blood and water cannot flow together referring to the …
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India’s World: Indus Water Commission starts work again Indus Water Commission is likely to meet in March 2017 for their routine annual meeting. The meeting had been postponed after India declared that blood and water cannot flow together in the wake of terrorist attack in Uri. The Indus Water Treaty was signed …
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The Big Picture: Takeaways from India-China Strategic Dialogue The India-China relationship is one of partnership as well as of rivalry i.e. partnership in growing trade relationship and rivalry as China increases its influence in the region and uses Pakistan to checkmate India. Recently, Foreign Secretary S.Jaishankar visited Beijing for the first Sino-Indian strategic …
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Lok Sabha TV: Public Forum: QR Codes-The Future of Payments The launch of Bharat Quick Response Code to enable people to pay for things they buy without swiping plastic cards is a welcome step. It was launched on February 20th 2017 which makes digital payments seamless and convenient for customers and helps …
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Lok Sabha TV- public Forum: Improving Tax Administration The Union Budget has suggested some measures to check tax evasion and promote compliance which includes delayed or wrong filing of tax returns and bringing more entities among mandatory filing net among others. It also proposes to penalize the professionals including chartered accountants, …
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Rajya Sabha TV: Security Scan- Satellites and National Security On 15th February 2017, ISRO established a world record when it successfully launched as many as 104 satellites from a single rocket. ISRO has done the country proud and needs to be commended for the profile and credibility it has acquired and …
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Lok Sabha TV- Public Forum: Poisoned Air Air pollution has touched alarming levels in recent years. China and India, two of the world’s most populous countries have the most polluted air in the world. According to some international researches, half of the world’s air pollution deaths occur in China and India. …
Lok Sabha TV- Public Forum : India’s Oil Strategy India is one of the major oil consumers in the world. It depends on imports to meet 80% of its oil needs largely from OPEC’s production. India’s energy import bill is close to 150 billion dollars and may double by 2030. According …
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Lok Sabha TV- Public Forum: National Women Parliamentarian Conference India’s first National Women’s Parliamentarian Conference was recently held at Amravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh. The three-day conference which was the first of its kind was organized by Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The theme of the Conference was “Empowering Women-Strengthening Democracy”. …
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The Big Picture- Electoral Bonds In order to structure the political funding better and to bring transparency, the Modi Government made several provisions in the Union Budget recently. An unprecedented announcement was made introducing electoral bonds for which the Government is gearing up to amend the rules of Reserve Bank of India. …
Lok Sabha TV: Education – Improving Accessibility Education is one of the most powerful instruments for reducing poverty and inequality. Education is a key to enhance India’s competitiveness in the global economy. India’s tertiary education system is considered one of the largest in the world with over 30 million students. The …
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Lok Sabha TV- Public Forum: All about Steel Steel plays a major role in the growth of the developing economy. In India, it is valued at over 100 billion dollars and contributes around 2% of the GDP of the country. India has become the third largest producer of steel with 89 …
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The Hindu News Analysis (VIDEO): 06 February 2017
The Big Picture: Understanding Nagaland Crisis Despite the presence of paramilitary troops in all sensitive pockets and Section 144 imposed in both the districts Kohima and Dimapur, the violence has continued for long now. The Home Ministry has asked the CRPF to send more troops to control law and order situation and …
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Public Forum : Economic Survey (2016-2017) The Economic Survey 2016-17 has been recently released which says that the economic growth will return to normal as new currency notes in required quantity have come into circulation and follow-up action on demonetization has been taken. It also says that the Rupee performed better than the …
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India’s World – Fallout of US leaving TPP US President Donald Trump has formally withdrawn America from the Trans Pacific Partnership, a flagship trade deal with 11 countries in the Pacific rim. With the US opting out of the TPP, the only remaining countries in the trade deal are Australia, Brunei, …
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Security Scan – Central Armed Police Forces The Central Armed Police Forces include the BSF, CRPF, ITBP, CISF and SSB. These five forces come under the Home Ministry and are a sizeable entity. They number almost 9 lakhs or close to a million personnel. Each force is headed by a Director General …
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The Big Picture: Is Holding Simultaneous Elections A Good Idea? President Pranab Mukherjee recently batted strongly for simultaneous elections to Parliament and Assemblies; an issue on which the Government has focused its attention of late. With five state elections around the corner, President Mukherjee called for simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and …
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The Big Picture: Bank NPAs: Should banks be more autonomous? Rising corporate debt and higher default rates have led to a continuous increase in distress loans in the Indian financial system. The situation has worsened in the last 5 years with the stressed asset ratio rising from 7.6% in March 2012 …
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