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Job seekers at a job fair in Bengaluru. The trend of contractual appointments and clamour for consultancies are also blamed for the dip in formal jobs. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: The India Employment Report 2024, prepared jointly by the Human Development and the International Labour Organization, and released on March 26, revolves…
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Humanitarian aid parcels attached to parachutes are airdropped from a military aircraft over the Gaza Strip on March 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: As Israel’s war on Gaza is reaching its sixth month, the Palestinian enclave has become the world’s “largest open-air graveyard”, as the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep…
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The story so far: On February 14, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mike Turner, called the media’s attention to “information concerning a serious national security threat” and urged President Joe Biden to declassify it so more experts could be recruited to mitigate the danger it allegedly posed. A…
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Rajya Sabha on February 2, 2024. Photo: Sansad TV via ANI The story so far: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced during her Budget speech that the Centre would reduce its fiscal deficit to 5.1% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024-25. She further added that the fiscal…
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Economists feel a prolonged conflict in West Asia could push crude oil prices beyond India’s comfort zone. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The story so far: The Indian economy, measured in terms of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as well as Gross Value-Added (GVA), grew 7.8% between April and June (first quarter or Q1) this…
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An Israeli soldier at Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel on October 14, 2023 walks next to bullet holes, in the aftermath of a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip. | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: On October 7, a Jewish Sabbath day, Hamas launched a surprise attack into southern Israel,…
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The story so far: On October 3, the 2023 Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini, and Ferenc Krausz “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”. What is an attosecond? An attosecond is one quintillionth of a second, or 10^-18 seconds….
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Laboratory flasks are used for explanation during the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry at Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on October 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: Alexei I. Ekimov, Louis E. Brus, and Moungi G. Bawendi have been awarded the 2023 Nobel…
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Global debt refers to the borrowings of governments as well as private businesses and individuals. Photo: imf.org The story so far: Global debt rose to an all-time high of $307 trillion in the second quarter, by the end of June 2023, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) said in a report released last week. Quite…
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The key allegation against Google is that its “arrangements” with Apple and other companies to be the default search engine on their devices, is unlawful monopoly building. File | Photo Credit: AP The story so far: On September 12, Justice Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia started hearing what…
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