What is Project Sagarmala? Port Infrastructure bottlenecks What is Project Sagarmala? China's String of Pearls = aims to surround India by developing ports in neighbor countries and possible convert them in military base at later stage. But Project Sagarmala [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Shipping S1: Major ports on West Coast S2: Major Ports on East Coast S3: Economic Survey: Shipping reforms S4: Budget 2014: Shipping related announcement S4: TAMP: Tariff Authority for Major Ports S5: Sethu Samudram Prologue Economic [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Railways: GK & Static Theory Railway budget vs General Budget Railway Gauges (British Legacy) Railways: Train types [Act 2] Railways: Current / Contemporary topics C1: Pir Panjal Tunnel, Qazigund Banihal C2: What is Cross subsidization in [...]
Prologue Human Development Report Five indexes under HDR-2014 Index#1: Human development index (HDI) Ranking Tie in Ranking No ranking in HDR 2014 Index#2: Inequality adjusted HDI Index#3: Gender Development India (GDI) Index#4: Gender inequality index Index#5: Multi-dimensional poverty index [...]
Prologue Poverty line Tendu Leopard vs Ranga Khush Urban Poverty line Rural Poverty line Why Ranga NAA-KHUSH (unhappy)? How is 100 million poors increased? Calorie Expenditure Engel’s law & MPCE Centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) CSS classification Poverty removal schemes [...]
Prologue [Act I] Demography related Theories (DT) DT1: Malthusian theory of population growth DT2: Demographic transition DT3: Demographic dividend [Act II] Education Census 2011: Literacy ranking Mid-Day Meal (MDM) Sarva Sikhsha Abhiyan (SSA) RMSA & RUSA Model School scheme [...]
Prologue [Act 1] Minorities Minorities in India? Jains Minority status Shia vs Sunni: What’s the difference? (New) USTAAD [Act 2] SC/ST/OBC Areas without SC/ST population % SC Population: Top 5 & Bottom 5 % ST Population: Top 5 & [...]
Prologue [Act I] Rural Infrastructure (RI) RINS1: Rurban Mission RINS2: Gram Jyoti Mission RIES1: Indira Awas Yojana RIES2: Rural housing fund (NHB) RIES3: National rural Drinking water Program (NRDWP) RIES4: Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan RINS1 (NEW) Swatchh Bharat Abhiyan RIES5: [...]
Prologue Capital Gains Tax (CGT) CGT & Withholding norms (TDS) Vodafone CGT IT Act 1961: Clarification (2012) Direct Tax Code (DTC) DTC and Indirect transfers Direct taxes: DTC vs. Budget-2014 Tax Avoidance and GAAR What is GAAR? Shome Panel [...]
Foreign Investment rules: SEBI Vs RBI SEBI new classification of FPI SEBI: Alternative investment fund (AIF) classification What are Hedge funds? Difference between Hedge Fund & Mutual fund What is Participatory Note (P-Notes)? Why Ban Participatory Notes (P-notes)? P-Notes, [...]
What is Special 301 report? Priority List countries for 2014’s Report Why India in Priority watch list of Special 301 report? #1: Movie piracy #2: Internet piracy #3: Ever Greening: Novartis Judgement #4: Compulsory license: Nexvar Judgement #5: Drug [...]
Prologue Royalties: Drain of wealth #1: Quantitative restriction on royalties #2: Tax on Royalties paid Royalties: TDS (Tax deduction at source) What Happened in Nokia Royalty case? Timeline: Nokia Royalty Case Nokia’s excuses Nokia’s current legal-strategy UNCITRAL / Nokia [...]
Prologue Banking sector in British India Birth of RBI Banking sector Post Independence Narsimhan Committee I (1991) Bank licences: 1st Round (1993) Narsimhan Committee II (1998) New Bank licences 2nd round (2001) New Bank licences 3rd Round (2013-14) Bandhan [...]