Society-Triple Talaq: The developments thus far !!!
As on yesterday the CJI mentioned that Triple Talaq Is Mentioned Nowhere In Quran. Here are few critical issues being debated. […]
Geopolitics- Saddam Hussain, USA and the CIA chronicles!!!
The article is based on a book by John Nixon’s – ‘Debriefing The President’ , it busts many myths around Saddam Hussein and a needless war. […]
Science- Why Earth is a Level Zero Civilization ?
To measure the level of a civilization’s advancement, the Kardashev scale focuses on the amount of energy that a civilization is able to utilize. Notably, the amount of power available to a civilization is fundamentally linked to how widespread the civilization is (you obviously can’t harness the power of a [...]
Geopolitics-Can China afford its Belt and Road?
China’s just-completed conference touting its Belt and Road initiative certainly looked like a triumph, with Russian President Vladimir Putin playing the piano and Chinese leaders announcing a string of potential deals and massive financial pledges. […]
Science-Why India Is Betting Big On Heavy Water Reactors -Explained !!!
Signaling its intent to fast-track India’s domestic nuclear power programme, the government on Wednesday approved a proposal to construct 10 indigenous units of pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs), each with the capacity of generating 700 Mega Watt (MW) of electricity, in a fully home grown initiative. […]
Science-The debate of Science vs Anti-Science !!!
The history of science is replete with thousands of examples of the way modern or empirical science was opposed by well-entrenched forces in society at any given time. Some of the oldest cultures have also resisted scientific ideas based on their own interpretation of the physical world. [...]
Agriculture for Prelims – TheHindu Exclusive !!!
Disclaimer-This is a compilation of agriculture news from the HINDU newspaper. We will keep updating this post as and when we come across new initiatives/concepts related to agriculture until Prelims 2017. […]
Society-Meet India’s ‘water doctor’, who has turned 84 acres of barren land into a water bowl !!!
Ayyappa Masagi has a simple message: “You want water? Call me!” Thousands have. And his phone rings dozens of times a day. There appears to be an endless supply of patients for the man nicknamed India’s “Water Doctor”. “I faced a lot of water problems in my childhood,” he said. [...]
Agriculture-The miracle rice-‘IR8’ !!!
It saved many nations like India from famine. […]
Agriculture-The Indian Agriculture dilemma-Scientists vs Activists !!!
Agriculture is now about 10,000 years old, but has been constantly improved to make it more productive and easier through human intervention. So agriculture is a hundred per cent human-created enterprise and there is nothing natural about it. If agriculture had not developed the way it has, the human race [...]