Embarking on Public Policy Careers for Aeronautical Engineering Students in India
Aeronautical engineering is a field that propels individuals into the skies, fostering innovation in aviation and aerospace technology.
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Analysing the current Sino-US Truce: Road towards improved relations?
Neither of them wants an economic MAD (mutually assured destruction), and this is a tactical pause. This is the third column in our Year End Special series on making sense of the biggest economic and geopolitical shifts and what they signal
Why Crowd-funding through UPI is the Best Option for Congress Fundraising on 138-Year Anniversary
Funding politics directly by the public, with every paisa automatically accounted for, would make parties accountable to the people.
Electoral Bonds as Means of Political Funding
Electoral bonds are interest-free bearer bonds that are treated as money instruments that companies and individuals in India can purchase from authorized branches of the State Bank of India (SBI). Electoral bonds are issued in the denominations of Rs 1,000, Rs 10,000, Rs 1 lakh, Rs 10 lakh, and Rs 1 crore.
Manual Scavenging: Black Spot on India’s Economic Development
Manual scavenging, in India, is a caste-based-forced occupation, and due to this Scheduled Castes (SCs) have been associated with the menial task of cleaning human excreta more than an occupation it has become a social norm that continues persistently despite all the available technology and alternatives. Despite a restriction on this practice manual scavenging is still prevalent according to the Socio-Economic and Caste Census 2011, there are about 1.8 lakh Indian households that rely on manual scavenging for their survival; and Maharashtra has the highest number of manual scavengers (i.e. 63,713), followed by Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, and Karnataka.
India’s Defence Sector is Moving in the Right Direction
India’s defense export revenue touched a record high of Rupees 15,920 crore for FY23. This was more than 10 times New Delhi’s defence export revenue of Rupees 1,521 crore during 2016-17. What makes this export record even more astonishing is that, only a decade ago, India was exporting arms worth a marginal Rupees 686 crore.