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Indian Economics - Analyses & Assessments - May 18, 2017
Operation Clean Money
The Operation Clean Money has been designed by the Central Board of Direct Taxes. There were large cash deposits during 9th November to 30th December 2016 and this operation will aim at verifying…
World - Analyses & Assessments - May 18, 2017
Italian Economic Crisis
The Report by Standard and Poor (S&P) stated that the Italian economy is likely to shrink slightly due to poor banking system and divided politics. According to the S&P report, the economy…
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…
Indian Economics - Analyses & Assessments - May 18, 2017
Payment Bank of Paytm
Paytm, India’s leading digital payment company is all set to establish its Payment Bank on the 23rd of May 2017, after receiving approval from the Reserve Bank of India. Paytm is the third company to…
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
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
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 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…
Indian Economics - Analyses & Assessments - May 17, 2017
Roti Bank in Patna
A social activist in Patna has launched the first Roti Bank in the State which is scheduled to start on the 15th of June 2017. The concept of Roti Banks is spreading rapidly and this noble venture…
Indian Economics - Analyses & Assessments - May 16, 2017
Dividend transfer from the Railways
The Railway Ministry has been compelled to transfer the dividend it earns from investment in Public Sector Units to the Finance Ministry post the historic merger of the Railways Budget with the Union…
World - Analyses & Assessments - May 16, 2017
Is North Korea behind WannaCry?
Russian security firm, Kaspersky found that the code used in the WannaCry software has been used by North Korean hacking group, Lazarus Group. The results suggest that North Korea could have links to…
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…
Indian Economics - Analyses & Assessments - May 16, 2017
Indian IT lay off to continue
As digitisation and automation has increased, IT companies like Infosys, Cognizant and Tech Mahindra have witnessed a series of layoffs. Experts say, this is likely to continue for the next 1-2 years…
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 ‘…
Indian Economics - Analyses & Assessments - May 15, 2017
Fall of the Indian Unicorn: Snapdeal
Homegrown e-commerce site, Snapdeal might be taken over by rival company Flipkart, in the next 2-3 months after being a victim of continuous errors and conflict within the board members. Flipkart has…
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.
World - Analyses & Assessments - May 13, 2017
Zika Virus: Brazil says Emergency is over
Brazil has informed the World Health Organisation that there has been a decrease in Zika and microcephaly throughout the country. The health ministry informed that since January to April 2017 there…
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…
World - Analyses & Assessments - May 12, 2017
China taking the lead for globalization
At present, countries like the United States under Trump’s Presidency are adopting a more protectionist approach with the ‘America first’ policy. However, it seems as though China is gradually…
Technology - Analyses & Assessments - May 12, 2017
All-electric cars fleet by 2030
The Power Minister, Piyush Goyal has suggested that India has targeted only electric cars to operate in the country by 2030. It was also reported than the Ministry of Heavy Industries and the NITI…