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Context: Several Indians have ended their lives owing to harassment by recovery agents of unregulated digital lending apps mostly linked to entities based in China. The apps offer quick loans without much documentation or collateral to unsuspecting borrowers mushroomed in the country during the COVID-19 pandemic. It became a popular option for borrowing money, …
Read MoreContext: According to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, cybercrimes have increased from 12,317 cases in 2016 to 50,035 cases in 2020. Cybercrime is increasing with the increased use of information and communication technology (ICT). However, despite this alarming trend, the capacity of the enforcement agencies to investigate cybercrime remains limited. Prevailing Issues …
Read MoreContext: Discrimination against females in Science, Technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Women and STEM According to available UNESCO data, In India, about 43% of women constitute the graduate population in STEM, which is one of the highest in the world, but only 14%of women join academic institutions and universities. Surprisingly, the highest number …
Read MoreContext: On February 23, on the eve of the first anniversary of his country’s “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow was unilaterally suspending the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty with the U.S., stating that the West was trying to destroy Russia. What is the New START …
Read MoreNews: India’s unemployment rate fell to 4.1% in July-June 2021-22, a five-year low, according to the National Statistics Office’s (NSO) most recent annual Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS). Since its April 2017 introduction, the rate has decreased for the fourth straight year. In 2021–2022, the UR for rural women (2.1%) was lower than the …
Read MoreNews: Hari Balakrishnan, a computer scientist, received the 2023 Marconi Prize. Balakrishnan has received recognition for his important contributions to distributed systems, mobile sensing, and wired and wireless networking. The Marconi Foundation, located in the United States, bestows the Marconi Prize, which is the highest honour for computer scientists. It is granted to people …
Read MoreNews: ALMA, a 66-antenna radio telescope at the Atacama Desert in Chile, will soon get hardware and software updates. A cutting-edge telescope that investigates astronomical objects at millimetre and submillimeter wavelengths is the Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Telescope. They can look through dust clouds and aid astronomers in studying faint and far-off galaxies and …
Read MoreNews: The Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) and IT-based welfare programmes of the Haryana government will be on exhibit during the G20 Summit’s first Anti-Corruption Working Group meeting in Gurugram. The Haryana government introduced the Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) Programme in 2015. PPP’s main goal is to compile accurate, verifiable, and comprehensive data on every …
Read MoreQ. Compare and contrast presidential and parliamentary systems. Do you think it was right on the part of constitutional makers to choose a parliamentary system for India.? Answer: India adopted a parliamentary system of Government after independence. The Parliamentary system of government is one in which the executive is responsible to the legislature. Presidential Parliamentary …
Read MoreIndian federalism was a kind of Cooperative federalism where bargaining took place between the centre and the states. Even though the position of states legislatively, administratively and financially is weak, they do tend to exert their powers through bargaining. Bargaining federalism is manifested between different states and also between Centre and States in the following …
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