Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 2013
The Government of India recently notified the Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 2013. It will replace the DPCO 1995. The new DPCO has come into being after being discussed for…
Category Archives: In-depth Current Affairs
Rising Farm Wages in India – The ‘Pull’ and ‘Push’ Factors
A new working paper titled Rising Farm Wages in India – The ‘Pull’ and ‘Push’ Factors, written by Ashok Gulati, Surbhi Jain and Nidhi Satija of the Commission for Agricultural…
Atmospheric CO2 levels now at 400 ppm: A historic threshold crossed
The world entered a new danger zone of climate change recently with levels of Earth-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere crossing the threshold of 400 parts per million (ppm)…
India’s exports grow for the fourth consecutive month
In an apparent sign of recovery in the external sector, exports grew for the fourth consecutive month, recording a growth of 1.6 per cent in April 2013. Exports in April…
Novel Coronavirus 2012: A public health challenge in making?
Coronaviruses – the causal agents of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) – are RNA viruses belonging to the the family Coronaviridae. Coronaviruses have a lipid envelope to protect them. Their genetic…
Arctic Council: India gets Observer’s status
India recently got observer’s status in the Arctic Council. India got this status along with five other nations, China, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. The decision was taken in…
Pakistan General Elections 2013: Nawaz Sharif returns as PM
An overview of the election General elections were held in Pakistan on 11 May 2013 to elect the members of the 14th National Assembly and to the four provincial assemblies…
Government sets up GoM on CBI’s autonomy
In the wake of recent strongly worded observations of the Supreme Court for having failed to ensure functional autonomy to the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Union government on May…
Inflation drops to 4.89 % in April 2013
The latest inflation trend For the first time since November 2009, wholesale price index-based headline inflation dropped further to 4.89 per cent in April 2013 from 5.96 per cent a…
Declaration of the Year 2013 as “Water Conservation Year-2013”
Water Conservation Year-2013 The Union Cabinet recently gave its approval for declaring the year 2013 as “Water Conservation Year 2013. A number of mass awareness activities will be undertaken during…
India Pakistan Diplomacy: Tit-for-Tat is not always the best option
Recently the prisoner Sanaullah Haq in Jammu’s Kot Bhalwal jail was attacked by a fellow prisoner who assaulted him in retaliation for the killing of Sarabjit in Pakistan by inmates….
The SC’s recent observations on CBI: A case of judicial overreach?
The immediate context Recently, while considering the CBI’s affidavit on coal block allocation scam investigation, the Supreme Court of India made a number of scathing observations on the nation’s premier…
Factory output grows 2.5 %
The official data on the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) released on May 10, 2013 reveals that industrial production moved further into the positive territory with a growth of 2.5…
Technology Innovation: Setting national priorities
Immediate context: National Technology Day 2013 Why technological innovation matters After the late 1980s, globalisation has rewritten the rules of business. Only the most competitive and resilient companies and economies…
