Transgender Rights in India – Key Issues and Challenges
Recently, the Lok Sabha has passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2016 with some amendments. The bill aims at empowering the tra…
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Income Inequality in India – Causes, Impacts & Solutions
According to the Asia-Pacific wealth report, Japan’s richest persons have the largest wealth accumulation in the Asia-Pacific region, however, Chine…
The Curious Case of the Sentinelese Tribe
Recently, an American self-styled adventurer and Christian missionary was allegedly killed by Sentinelese tribes of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, when h…
US Sanctions and Iran Nuclear Deal: Explained
The United States has broadly agreed to grant India and 7 other countries a waiver from the sanctions it re-imposed on Iran recently. This decision pr…
[Premium] INS Arihant completed patrol – Has India truly achieved Nuclear Triad?
Recently, India’s first indigenous nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), INS Arihant (destroyer of enemies), has successfully complete…
[Premium] US’s Withdrawal from INF Treaty – Is it the End of Arms Control?
The United States President Donald Trump has recently announced that US will unilaterally pull out of 1987 Intermediat…
[Premium] Begging in India – Legal Status in light of court verdicts
In August 2018, Delhi High Court decriminalized beggary by striking down some sections of the Bombay Prevention of Beggary Act, 1959, as extended to D…
Constitutional Validity of Aadhaar – Background, Major Issues and Recent SC verdict
Recently, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Aadhaar in its majority verdict (4 out of 5 judges). It is in this light, there is a n…
Data Localisation Issue – All that you need to know
If the twentieth century brought the Internet as a decentralized domain, the twenty-first century is noted by the fight over the control of data. Data…
