RBI needs to have a very resilient balance sheet. That is, the RBI needs adequate capital reserves and other buffers that it can use to stabilise the economy during times of distress.
We require monitoring agencies that will look into all these aspects. AB-NHPM has a lot of potential, but it might turn into a nightmare if not carefully implemented. These issues need to be kept in mind by the policymakers.
With the growing importance of health in the global agenda, the Health Management Information System (HMIS) has emerged as one of the key activities that require accelerated efforts to meet international as well as country-specific health needs.
Rural electrification has evidenced a paradigm shift from demand-driven village electrification programmes of the 1950s to the 1990s, to small targeted household electrification drives between the 1980s and 2005.
#MeToo has enabled women to tell the oppressor that his power over them is not absolute and that it will not remain unchallenged. Male dominance over women is systematic and institutionalized. The next generation of women will not grow up with that flawed belief.
Millions of Indians, especially those on the margins, have been customarily living precarious lives due to failures of the system in reaching entitlements to them. Under such situations hunger is both chronic and temporally endemic (or intergenerational).
Though Justice Indu Malhotra struck the balance in favour of religious freedom, she could have considered this in the context of public morality, and not constitutional morality, to come to a different conclusion.
The verdict has arrived as a huge disappointment when seen in the context of the need for untainted parliamentarians. Judicial activism saved this country many times when the executive and the legislature were not willing to do their job.
As the great powers are once again launching a new round of nuclear arms race and territorial expansion and militarisation of the oceans, a renewed activism by leading global south countries may be necessary. Read More..
As transparency, and thus complete audit of transactions, is the foundation of blockchain, it can be assumed that whatever blockchain declares regarding the transaction may be deemed accurate. This, however, may not hold true from a legal or regulatory point of view.
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