Current affairs

Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI): How DoT’s Smart Tool Prevented ₹660 Crore Cyber Fraud Losses in 6 Months

India’s digital payments ecosystem is among the fastest growing in the world, but this rapid expansion has also made the country a prime target for cybercriminals. To counter this growing threat, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) launched an innovative and...

30th Anniversary of PESA Act: Significance, Features, Challenges and the Road Ahead

The 30th Anniversary of the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA) marks three decades of India’s most transformative experiment in tribal self-governance and grassroots democracy. Recently, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj organised PESA Mahotsav: Utsav Lok Sanskriti Ka...

Industrial Parks in India: Driving Manufacturing Growth, Smart Infrastructure

Industrial parks in India have emerged as powerful engines of economic growth, industrialisation and infrastructure development. With planned layouts, shared facilities and streamlined governance, industrial parks play a crucial role in strengthening India’s manufacturing ecosystem, attracting domestic and foreign investment,...

National Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC): India’s Gateway to 4,500 Years of Maritime Legacy

The National Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC) is one of India’s most ambitious cultural infrastructure projects, aimed at showcasing the country’s 4,500-year-old maritime history. Located at Lothal in Gujarat, the NMHC seeks to emerge as a world-class maritime museum and heritage...

Reforming Fertiliser Subsidy in India: Need, Challenges, and the Way Forward

Reforming the fertiliser subsidy in India has emerged as one of the most critical yet politically sensitive economic reforms. The fertiliser subsidy is currently the second-largest expenditure item in the Union Budget, next only to the food subsidy. For FY26,...

Micrometeoroids: Tiny Space Particles, Massive Threat to Space Missions

Micrometeoroids are among the smallest yet most dangerous objects in space. Invisible to the naked eye and often no larger than grains of sand, these high-speed particles travel through space at velocities capable of piercing spacecraft walls, damaging satellites, and...

India Needs a National Insolvency Tribunal

India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016 was introduced as a transformative reform to resolve corporate distress in a time-bound, efficient, and value-maximising manner. While the law itself remains structurally sound, the institutional framework supporting it is under severe stress....

Unlocking the Potential of India–Africa Economic Ties

The India–Africa economic partnership has gained renewed momentum in the past decade, driven by high-level political engagement, expanding trade volumes, and shared developmental priorities. This revival was symbolically reinforced when the African Union became a permanent member of the G20...

Speedy Justice and the Crisis in Consumer Courts

Speedy justice is the cornerstone of consumer protection in India. Consumer courts were created to provide simple, affordable, and time-bound remedies to ordinary citizens against powerful corporations, insurers, service providers, and manufacturers. However, ground realities reveal a growing crisis in...

Kavachi Volcano: Location, Features, Eruptions, and the Mystery of Sharks Living Inside

Kavachi Volcano is one of the most active submarine volcanoes in the world, located in the South Pacific Ocean near the Solomon Islands. Known for its frequent eruptions, temporary island formation, and recent discovery of sharks living inside its volcanic...