Over the past week, Indus Water Treaty has been in NEWS. This is a detailed article on the same. Indus Water Treaty: The Background At the time of independence, the boundary line between Pakistan and India was drawn across the Indus Basin, leaving Pakistan as the lower riparian meaning water from Indus & tributaries flowed from India to Pakistan. Moreover, two […]
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Considering the challenges along its border with Pakistan, India has decided to completely seal the international border in a time-bound manner by December 2018. A meeting in this regard was held In Jaisalmer, Rajasthan between Home Minister Rajnath Singh and representatives of 4 states sharing border with Pakistan. Further, a new concept of Border Security Grid (BSG)
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In a bid to promote financial inclusion the Union government has come up with ideas like Payment Banks & Small Banks. The RBI has recently granted ‘in principle’ approval for payment banks to 11 entities, including big names like Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla Nuvo and Tech Mahindra, as also Airtel and Vodafone. What is Payment Bank? Payment
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2016 has been awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts to end his country’s 50-year civil war. Mr Santos negotiated a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group but the peace deal was rejected by a narrow majority of Colombians when it was
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UNSC 1267 Sanctions Committee has put on hold India’s proposal to declare JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar as global terrorist. The decision came after China, a veto-member in UNSC 1267 Sanctions Committee, extended its decision to put a “technical hold” on the declaration. India criticized the complete non-transparent and anonymous manner of designating individuals by the
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