by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 4, 2020 | Current Affairs
As per the announcement made by NASA on October 13, 2020, an international pact for Moon exploration, namely, ‘The Artemis Accords’ has been signed by eight countries—the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Luxembourg, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 4, 2020 | Current Affairs
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its partners have organised an international initiative, named, ‘Solidarity’ for conducting clinical trials for finding a potential cure for Covid-19. The Solidarity Therapeutics Trials is the world’s largest randomised control...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 4, 2020 | Current Affairs
In October 2020, Manish Sabharwal of Teamlease Services made the case that a court-ordered interest waiver on loans hurts the common man, has nothing to do with economic justice defined as the greatest good for the greatest number, and is hardly what our constitution...
by Spectrum | Dec 2, 2020 | Current Affairs
The Delhi High Court, on October 22, 2020, directed Facebook and Google to remove ‘objectionable photos’ of a woman, which were initially uploaded by one of her former schoolmates in 2012 and subsequently circulated by multiple users without her consent. The woman,...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 2, 2020 | Current Affairs
On October 7, 2020, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) gave recognition to sex workers as informal workers in their advisory on ‘Human Rights of Women in the context of Covid-19’. However, Sunitha Krishnan, a social activist and founder of an organisation,...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 2, 2020 | Current Affairs
As per a media report on October 23, 2020 with more than 40,000 cases and 1,000 deaths, Myanmar is facing one of South-East Asia’s worst pandemics, and the Covid-19 lockdown in Yangon has left hundreds of thousands of people without work. Poverty in the developing...
