Current Affairs
Historical Position of WomenThere are numerous enactments occupying the field pertaining to protection, welfare, and empowerment of women on account of illiteracy, immortality, radical change in the Indian Societies on Indian women who constitute half of the human population have been discriminated against, harassed and exploited irrespective of nationality, religion they profess, and even era […]
India has completed two years as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), and therefore it would be useful to assess the worth and utility of being a member of such an organization. There is no gainsaying in the fact that it is useful to be a member of a multilateral grouping rather […]
Spyware attacks WhatsApp recently filed a complaint in a USA court accusing spyware company NSO Group and its parent company Q Cyber Technologies of targeting at least 1,400 users across the world. WhatsApp claims it detected the attack in May 2019. Apparently, NSO exploited a “buffer overflow vulnerability in WhatsApp VOIP stack” to send a […]
RCEP or Regional Comprehensive economic Partnership is a proposed free trade agreement among 16 nations i.e. ASEAN countries (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) and India, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand. RCEP aims to boost goods trade by eliminating most tariff and non-tariff barriers — a move […]
Recently, the president’s rule was declared in Maharashtra. The reason being sited is the inability of the elected parties to form government. BJP-Shiv Sena pre poll alliance won a whooping 105 and 56 seats respectively which were sufficient to form a government. However, a tussle for the seat of Chief Minister led to a break-up […]
The Supreme Court has, in a landmark judgement by a five-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, held that office of the Chief Justice of India is a public authority under the Right to Information Act. The verdict says that the Supreme Court is a “public authority” and the office of the CJI is […]