Towards a kerosene-free India-Crux of The Hindu Editorial

Topic: PDS: objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping-GS-03 After the success of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)/cooking gas, the government has now decided to launch DBT for kerosene…

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SCATSat-1 (Scatterometer Satellite-1-All About It

SCATSat-1 is an OceanSat-2 follow-up mission, actually a gap-filler mission between OceanSat-2 and -3, under development at ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) with the objective to continue the global ocean…

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India’s first international arbitration centre inaugurated in Mumbai-Prelims-2017

The first International Arbitration Centre of India was inaugurated in Mumbai, Maharashtra to provide an arbitration platform for Indian business houses to negotiate commercial disputes. The Mumbai Centre for International…

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The HIV/AIDS situation in India, and how the new Bill will protect victims-Indian Express

More than two years after it was introduced in Rajya Sabha, a revised draft of the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2014, which makes discriminating against a person…

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