The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) performs various duties, the significant ones among them in - Internal Security, Administration of the Border, Centre-State Relationship, The Administration of Union Territories, The Administration of the Central Armed Police Forces, Disaster Management, etc.
The MIB, established post-independence, runs media platforms like Doordarshan and All India Radio, with the aim of reaching government policies to people. Its remit grew with digital media, introducing devices like the Press Sewa Portal and working on the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill since 2023 to control content.
When I first stepped into a remote village in Rajasthan for a legal literacy camp, I thought I
carried something powerful — knowledge of the law. I believed the law, especially Public
Interest Litigation (PIL), could open doors for those who had always been shut out. But what I
didn’t expect was the silence that followed when I asked a group of rural women if they had ever heard of PIL.
Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) was launched in 2015 by the erstwhile Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani at IIT Gandhinagar.
India’s three-tier system of local governance: comprising of Gram Panchayats (village level), Panchayat Samitis (block level) and Zilla Parishads (district level) in rural areas, Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats in urban areas, was constitutionally established by the 73rd and 74th Amendments in 1992 and 1993 respectively (Government of India, 1992; Government of India, 1993).
The scientific institutions are critical cradle of innovation and knowledge creation and the development of scientific infrastructure is crucial for advancement of a nation with ease of access and greater emphasis for optimal utilisationThe FIST scheme was introduced to cater the growing demand for skilled manpower and to decentralise scientific development beyond premier institutions like IITs and IISc.
Arun Kumar Fifty years ago, on June 25, 1975, the Emergency imposed by the then prime minister, Indira Gandhi. When Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in 1975, the nation’s existence was not jeopardised, externally or internally. An ex-post justification was given…