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THE REALITY BEHIND THE FALLING OF NET FDI: CAUSES, TRENDS, AND ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS THE REALITY BEHIND THE FALLING OF NET FDI
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India’s net FDI has declined sharply despite strong gross inflows, underlining the impact of disinvestment/capital repatriation;...
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11-Jun 2026
CITY POLLUTION AND SUMMER POLLUTION AND SUMMER
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In March, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) revoked all curbs under the Graded Resp...
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02-Jun 2026
COAL GASIFICATION COAL GASIFICATION
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In a roadshow promoting surface coal gasification, Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy said the technology, which can also yield a range of down...
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01-Jun 2026
HYPERSONIC MISSILE HYPERSONIC MISSILE
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India on 9th May, achieved a major breakthrough in hypersonic missile technology. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) accomplished a 1,...
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19-May 2026
INDIAS ENERGY SECURITY INDIA'S ENERGY SECURITY
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India’s energy security concerns are increasing focus on converting agricultural residue, food waste, sewage sludge, and organic municipal waste into...
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19-May 2026
EBOLA VIRUS EBOLA VIRUS
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On May 16, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda a ‘public health emergency of i...
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19-May 2026
INDIA'S LABOUR MARKET INDIA'S LABOUR MARKET
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Every year, about 7-10 million young Indians enter the labour market. They are better educated than any generation before them — the average years of for...
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15-May 2026
WESTERN DISTURBANCES AND EL NINO WESTERN DISTURBANCES AND EL NINO
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India is headed into a summer of compounding extremes. A fresh Western Disturbance is set to bring unseasonal rain to the north, an El Niñ...
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12-May 2026
ORBITAR DATA CENTRE -GalaxEye Drishti GalaxEye Drishti Satellite
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First-of-its-kind satellite named Drishti by Indian start-up, GalaxEye, was launched on 3 May, 2026 by Falcon 9 rocket of SpaceX from the Vandenberg...
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11-May 2026
GOVERNOR AND CHIEF MINISTER GOVERNOR AND CHIEF MINISTER
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A day after the Trinamool Congress lost the West Bengal elections to the BJP, party chairperson Mamata Banerjee on May 5 said she would not resign ...
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07-May 2026
COMPOSITE BACKWARDNESS INDEX (CBI) COMPOSITE BACKWARDNESS INDEX (CBI)
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Poor General Caste children access private education eight times more than equally poor SC and ST children. Pick four equally poor household...
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24-Apr 2026
DELIMITATION AND PARLIAMENT SEATS DELIMITATION AND PARLIAMENT SEATS
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The Union government had introduced the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to increase the maximum number of Lok Sabha seats from the existi...
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20-Apr 2026
STAGFLATION STAGFLATION
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During the 1970s and early 1980s, most Western countries experienced “stagflation”— a condition where low, if not negative, economic growth coexisted with high inf...
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08-Apr 2026
SILVER ECONOMY SILVER ECONOMY
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India isn’t ageing yet. We are still a young country, with more than half our population under 25, and about 65 per cent under 35. But some of our states are agein...
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03-Apr 2026
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES
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Concerned about the falling value of the rupee amid the rise in oil prices and fears over inflation in the wake of the West Asia conflict, the Reserv...
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01-Apr 2026
