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General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 31, 2017
SEBI moves to ban P-Notes
The securities exchange board of India (SEBI) has proposed to tighten the rules for participatory notes and similar off-shore derivatives instruments (ODIs) by imposing regulatory fees on foreign…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 30, 2017
Judy hits Android
As the world is yet to recover from the WannaCry ransomware attack, a new malware ‘Judy’ has hit over 36.5 million android based phones, making its way through Google Play Store. Cyber-security firm…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 29, 2017
Banning people, banning things.
The U.S government imposed a restriction, earlier this March, on ‘large electronic devices’ in aircraft cabins. The U.S Homeland Security Secretary, John Kelly confirmed that the move was part of a…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 26, 2017
Reduction in privately owned cars
Toby Seba, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Disruption and Clean Energy at Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program recently predicted that 95% of people wouldn’t own private cars by 2030. While this…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 26, 2017
Tax cut on coal
The sales tax on coal in India has been reduced by more than half, as per reports on the 26th of May, 2017. The duty on domestic coal would be reduced by the government from 11% to 5% and will be…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 24, 2017
Anti Crime Sectors
The Uttar Pradesh government has set up 399 anti-crime sectors at the tehsil level, as per reports on the 24th of May 2017. These have been set in 75 districts to keep a check on the manufacture and…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 24, 2017
Nauru ratifies international solar alliance
On 23rd May 2017, Nauru ratified the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Framework Pact becoming the sixth country to do so.The International Solar Alliance was launched jointly by the Indian Prime…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 24, 2017
India’s new Dalit icon
On 21st May 2017, thousands of Dalits gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to protest the anti-Dalit violence in the northern town of Saharanpur. On 19th May Saharanpur witnessed violent caste clashes…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 23, 2017
New Toll System
The access controlled highways in India will soon have a new toll system, wherein a person will have to pay only for the distance he travels on the highway and not for the entire stretch. `This will…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 19, 2017
Haryana releases water to Delhi
The Haryana Government has agreed to release Delhi’s share of Yamuna water, as per reports on the 18th of May, 2017. The shortage in water was due to a leakage in Narwana canal branch on May 8, which…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 18, 2017
NPPA attacks Pharmaceutical Industries
On 17th, May National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) issued a notice against many pharmaceutical companies like Lupin, Zydus Cadila, Wockhardt, Abbott Healthcare, Alembic, Alkem, Zuventus…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 17, 2017
First Robotic Parkinson’s Surgery in Asia
Asia witnessed the first robot assisted surgery in Kochi on 17th may, 2017 after an auto driver was treated Parkinson disease in the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences.
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 17, 2017
10-year old’s petition for abortion
On 15th May a plea for abortion was made for a 10-year old girl in the town of Rothak, Haryana. After being raped continuously by her stepfather, medical experts have affirmed her pregnancy of 20…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 17, 2017
Accidents due to Over speeding in India
A report recording 38,131 instances of over speeding vehicles leading to accidents was released on May 17th, 2017 in Bangalore. Every year about 1.2 million deaths occur and millions are injured or…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 17, 2017
India’s ageing population
According to PFRDA-CRISIL report titled, ‘Financial security for India’s elderly – The imperatives’, India will begin ageing gradually and will transform from ‘young’ to a ‘greying’. By 2050 every…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 16, 2017
New Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
The Minister of Health and Family Welfare, J P Nadda has launched a new Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine against pneumonia at Lal Bahadur Shastri Medical College in the Mandi district of Himachal…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 15, 2017
Introduction of the POD Taxi
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has planned to introduce the system of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) to solve the issue of traffic in the city.
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 15, 2017
The biggest online extortion of today- Ransomware
On 12th May, a cyber-attack hit 150 countries and has affected approximately 200,000 computers as of 15th May. The hack is being termed as the biggest cyber-attack that has ever occurred and is ‘…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 13, 2017
Privatisation of defence sector
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley held extensive dialogues with the representative of defence arms of groups including Larsen and Toubro, Ashok Leyland, Mahindra and Mahindra, Reliance Infra, Tata group…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 12, 2017
The Rise of the Zombie Pathogens
According to research at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the 10 warmest years have all occurred since 2000. The year 2016 ranked as the warmest on record at an annual average of…