The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has decided to commence from August 2 the interviews for the civil services examination, 2020, which were deferred due to a surge in Covid-19 cases. The civil services examination is conducted annually by the UPSC in three stages — preliminary,...

The debate over social media has been vociferous, but the discourse on the tussle between Twitter, in particular, and India’s government over the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, has been defined by two parallel narratives....

t’s hard to find things that won’t sell online," Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos once said. As the internet shrinks the world, it has expanded the size of markets. Covid has catapulted its growth. An eMarketer study says that despite a challenging year for retail in 2020, worldwide...

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said that the government is hopeful that the Monsoon Session of Parliament will begin on its normal schedule in July. Since the pandemic began, three sessions of Parliament were curtailed and the winter session last year had to be canceled....

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said there was no plan to print more currency notes. The Governor’s statement comes amid suggestions from certain quarters that the RBI print more currency notes to support the economy ravaged by the spread of COVID-19, and protect...