India is reeling under an acute shortage of specialist doctors, with a shortfall of nearly 80% of the required specialists at Community Health Centres (CHCs), reveals the Rural Health Statistics report published by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Thursday. The CHCs are 30-bed block-level health facilities which …
Read More »Daily Archives: January 13, 2023
INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT REBOUNDED TO 7.1% GROWTH
India’s industrial output bounced back to post 7.1% growth in November 2022, after shrinking 4.2% in October as per revised estimates. The jump was aided by a base effect as November 2021 had clocked just 1% growth, but also marked a 6% uptick in output levels over October 2022, when …
Read More »ANALYSING THE ‘CHEATING’ IN CHESS
The chess world was rattled in late 2022 when Magnus Carlsen, the current world champion, accused Hans Niemann, a 19-year-old U.S. chess grandmaster, of cheating using a chess-playing artificial intelligence (AI) system. Niemann had defeated Carlsen, prompting Carlsen’s accusation; Niemann asserted that he had defeated Carlsen fairly even though he …
Read More »A GOVERNOR AND A CHIEF MINISTER AT LOGGERHEADS
The Tamil Nadu Assembly witnessed dramatic scenes on January 9. When the Governor skipped portions of the address that was prepared and approved by the State Cabinet, including references to political stalwarts from the State and the Dravidian model of governance, Chief Minister M. K. Stalin moved a resolution to …
Read More »NEELAKURINJI ON THE LIST OF PROTECTED PLANTS
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) has listed Neelakurinji (Strobilantheskunthiana) under Schedule III of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 including it on the list of protected plants. Those who uproot or destroy the plant will invite a fine of ₹25,000 and three years imprisonment. The cultivation of …
Read More »CONFLICT BETWEEN CM AND LG IN DELHI
The victory of the AamAadmi Party in the recent Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections has added a fresh backdrop to the unceasing face-off between the Lieutenant Governor of the National Capital Territory and the elected government. Several Governors, who are all too eager to further the Bharatiya Janata Party’s …
Read More »ENTERING A YEAR OF UNCERTAINTY AND THE REALM OF GEOPOLITICS
Soothsayers seldom read the future correctly, especially in the realm of geopolitics. Quite a few soothsayers, however, were partially right at the beginning of 2022 when they said that uncertainty and impermanence would dictate the course of world events that year. The year did witness a spike in geopolitical challenges …
Read More »INDIA HAS MADE MARKED PROGRESS IN LAC INFRA DEVELOPMENT
While there are reports of infrastructure build-up on the Chinese side, what does not come to the fore is what infrastructure has been developed on our side, Army chief General Manoj Pande said on Thursday, stating that there has been “marked improvement” and there are plans for all-weather connectivity and …
Read More »ARTICLE 141 OF THE CONSTITUTION
The public criticism aired by Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) judgment may be seen as comments by a high constitutional authority against “the law of the land”. The Supreme Court has held that its judicial pronouncements lay down the law. Article 141 of the Constitution …
Read More »