News in Focus: In Chhannu Lal Verma vs the State of Chattisgarh, Justice Joseph had observed that the time had come to review the need for the death penalty as a punishment. Contrarily, the government has decided to to amend certain sections of Protection of Children...
The Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare has notified the Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019 with an aim to promote clinical research in the country. The new rules will change the regulatory landscape for the approval of new drugs and conduct of clinical...
GS3: agricultural produce and issues and related constraints What is the issue? Recently, there is an intense discussion on the strategies needed for addressing farmer distress in India. Among others, assured and greater access to institutional credit has been...
Why in news: Chinese Experiment In November 2018, Chinese researchers announced that the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor — an “artificial sun” designed to mimic the nuclear fusion process the real Sun uses to generate energy —...
Social media giant Facebook announced that it will create an independent Institute for Ethics in Artificial intelligence (AI) with an initial investment of $7.5 million over a period of five years. Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany will collaborate with...
Oxfam released its annual study Global Inequality report before the start of the five-day World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Findings The 26 richest people on earth in 2018 had the same net worth as the poorest half of the world’s...
