South Korea first to roll out 5G services, beating U.S. and China
South Korea launched the world’s first nationwide 5G mobile networks to be the first providers of the super-fast wireless technology.
Stressed assets circular to be revised
The RBI governor said that the central bank will come up with a revised circular to continue its battle against stressed assets within India’s banking system.
Electoral bonds protect donors
Centre defends scheme in SC by arguing that Electoral bonds scheme allows anonymity to political donors to protect them from political victimization.
Sudden release of water from dams worsened Kerala floods
The amicus curiae appointed by the Kerala High Court to assist it in flood-related cases informed the court that the sudden release of water simultaneously from different reservoirs had aggravated the damage during the floods.
Time to push for a sustainable food system, say scientists
EAT-Lancet Commission releases report on healthy diet says, “the way we are producing food today is causing increased emission of greenhouse gases, depleting fresh water supply, compromising land use, exhausting the nitrogen and phosphorous cycle, and endangering biodiversity”.
India-U.S defense relations
The U.S Department of State has approved the sale of 24 MH-60R ‘Romeo’ multi-mission helicopters to India under its Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme.
Dark matter
Researchers led by Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Japan used the gravitational lensing effect to look for primordial black holes between the earth and the Andromeda galaxy.
Repo Rate cut
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), in its first meeting in FY’20, cut the key lending rate repo rate by 25 basis points from 6.25% to 6%.
India to grow 7.2% for FY’20: ADB
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has lowered India’s growth forecast for 2019-20 to 7.2% from 7.6% estimated earlier.
Opening collegium to RTI will destroy judicial independence
AG submits before Supreme Court on behalf of its information officer that Opening up the “highly-sensitive” correspondence of the Supreme Court’s collegium and its workings to the Right to Information (RTI) regime would make judges and the government “shy” and “destroy” judicial independence.