Government’s initiative and Plan to achieve 175 GW+ of Renewable Energy?

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May 13, 2016

Government’s initiative and Plan to achieve 175 GW+ of Renewable Energy?

India committed in COP21, France that it will try to achieve 40% of total energy mix coming from renewable sources by 2030, as a part of its INDC. This seems very unrealistic to start...

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May 10, 2016

India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

India has submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Some of the salient points of the INDC are: • To put forward and further propagate...

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May 9, 2016

List of Environmental Acts, Protocols and Implementing Bodies in India

The nodal agency is the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC). The ministry acts as nodal agency for the following 1. United Nations Environment Program 2. South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP)...

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May 8, 2016

Capital Punishment

Capital punishment, death penalty or execution is government sanctioned punishment by death. The sentence is referred to as a death sentence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The United Nations General Assembly has adopted, in...

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May 2, 2016

New Defence Procurement Procedure – 2016

Capital Acquisition schemes are broadly classified as, ‘Buy’, ‘Buy and Make’, and ‘Make’. Under the ‘Buy’ scheme procurement are categorized as ‘Buy (Indian – IDDM)’, ‘Buy (Indian)’, and ‘Buy (Global)’. The three categories under...

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April 30, 2016

International Solar Alliance (ISA)

The idea of this alliance was mooted by India during 21st Conference of Parties, France, 2015. ISA is conceived as a coalition of solar resource rich countries lying fully or partially between the Tropic...

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April 28, 2016

Currency Convertibility: Current and Capital

Recent Panama papers leak has again rekindled the old question, whether countries should go for Capital account convertibility? To understand the answer to this, let’s first understand the concept of convertibility Current Account Convertibility...

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April 27, 2016

Initiatives to lower Child Mortality Rates

There are three types of reported mortality rates Infant Mortality Rate: Number of deaths under 1 year per 1000 live births. Neonatal Mortality Rate: Number of deaths under 4 weeks per 1000 live births....

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April 26, 2016

Unified Payment Interface

We are turning away from cash to digital money. Online payments, debit cards, credit cards, various wallets indicate that we are moving towards digital currency. The recent launch of Unified Payment Interface (UPI) by...

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April 22, 2016

Payment Banks

Payment Banks are setup with objective of financial inclusion by providing 1.Small savings accounts 2. Payments remittance services to its users. Targeted user group of Payment banks are 1.Migrant labour workforce 2.Low income households 3.Small businesses...