GST COUNCIL PROVIDES SOME RELIEF TO INDIA INC
Focus: GS-III Indian Economy Why in news? Looking to ease compliance burden on businesses, the Goods and Services Tax Council decided provide relief to taxpayers on late fee and interest payable on delayed tax payments. Details The Council reduced late fee and interest for those businesses with tax liabilities and waived off late fee completely […]
NIRF’S INDIA RANKINGS 2020
Focus: GS-III Social Justice Why in news? National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings 2020 was announced by the Minister of Human Resource Development. Details IIT Madras retains 1st Position in Overall Ranking as well as in Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru tops the University list. IIM Ahmedabad tops in Management Category and AIIMS […]
WHO IS ASSAMESE?
Focus: GS-II Governance Introduction The Assam Accord was signed at the end of a six-year agitation (1979-85) against illegal migration from Bangladesh. In the context of the Accord, the question of who is Assamese stems from the language of Clause 6: “Constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards, as may be appropriate, shall be provided to protect, […]
WHY ANTI-DEFECTION LAW HAS FAILED ITS PURPOSE?
Focus: GS-II Governance Introduction The anti-defection law is supposed to deter elected legislators from defecting from their political parties. They can lose their seats in the legislature for defying their party, and if declared a defector, they cannot become a minister in a government for six months. However, many recent events have raised concerns that […]
WHAT IS THE PERSEIDS METEOR SHOWER?
Focus: Prelims, GS-III Science and Technology Introduction The Perseids meteor shower is going to be active in August 2020, and the annual celestial event is considered the best meteor shower. What are meteor showers? Meteors are bits of rock and ice that are ejected from comets as they manoeuvre around their orbits around the sun. […]
MORE THAN A VACCINE, IT IS ABOUT VACCINATION
Focus: GS-II Science and Technology Introduction Globally, innumerable vaccine trials are progressing; in India, two candidates have advanced considerably. Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, created COVAX — a funding facility to ensure up-scaling vaccine production and its access to low income countries as soon as regulatory approvals emerge. India’s Universal Immunisation Programme is a vaccine-delivery […]
A SELF-RELIANT FOREIGN POLICY
Focus: GS-II International Relations Introduction Self-reliance is the theme of India’s 74th Independence Day. This concept is commonly associated with the economy and production of key goods and services within the country in light of the global ‘supply shock’ caused by the pandemic, but it also has a parallel dimension in the domain of foreign […]