Author: pah
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Total Fertility Rate and Replacement Fertility Levels ; What happens when developing nations reach replacement level ?
The world’s population is over 7 billion. We , the people of India are a staggering 1.2 billion. Humanity has continued to exist because people have done produced another generation to replace itself. Scientists have figured out how many people ought to be born to keep population stable. This brings the concept of total fertility rate et…
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Problems faced by cotton cultivators in India ; Approach of government and measures that need to be taken
Cotton is one of the most important commercial crops cultivated in India. India is the second largest cotton producer, but the cultivators are marred by several problems.
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Winter Session 2014 – all the legislative business that transpired
[su_note note_color=”#33e3d0″ text_color=”#000000″ radius=”0″]This post has been prepared with inputs from PRS legislative reserach. You can find out more about them from here. [/su_note] [su_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg48bQTfj7c” width=”340″ height=”300″]
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All you wanted to know about GSLV MARK III
India gets another step closer to putting man in space on its own with the successful experimental launch of GSLV-Mark III. This is the second mission of the GSLV rocket during the last four years after two such launches failed in 2010. Earlier this year ISRO had launched GSLV D5. This is a grand success as India was…
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Decriminalizing suicide – Government decides to scrap Section 309 IPC
Suicide is principally a mental health issue. It is essential to remove one of the big colonial era blots on our statute books — Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code, which treated attempted suicide as a crime.
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Negative impacts of hydroelectric projects in the Himalayan regions
Recently, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court that the hydroelectric projects “aggravated the impact of floods” in Uttarakhand. While the ministry’s stance has been welcomed by environmentalists, it has delivered a blow to the Uttarakhand government and the companies building these projects as the State’s development…
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Bangladesh Oil spill – all you need to know
What happened? ♣ The Accident – Oil tanker Southern Star -7 carrying 350 tonnes of furnace oil capsized on Sela river . Both tankers were in a no go zone that was declared a sanctuary for endangered dolphins. This lies in the Sunderbans. Despite that, ever since silt had choked the standard shipping route, ships and…
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Payments Banks – concept demystified
Imagine, you have a mobile connection from Docomo. One fine day, you are told it’ll serve you as a bank. Cool , haina? Precisely this is what RBI is vying for. To get more people into the net of banking system, it came up with the idea of Payment Banks. So what exactly are they,…
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Falling oil prices – effect on India , demystified pointwise
Oil prices have been falling for a while, and they are likely to remain low. The conventional thinking is that a fall in oil prices will benefit India tremendously. A major reason for the same is that India imports nearly four fifths of the oil that it consumes. Will India only benefit or is there a…
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NHRC – composition , functions and role in safeguarding human rights
“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings” -Mahatma Gandhi [su_highlight background=”#12faf9″]History [/su_highlight] The UN Commission on Human Rights formulated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). UDHR was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. Although the UDHR was a non-binding resolution, it is now considered…
