by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 4, 2020 | News in Brief
The Election Commission of India (ECI) issued a fresh set of guidelines in August 2020, for carrying out polls amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The guidelines came just months before the Bihar Assembly elections scheduled for October, and Bengal Assembly elections, slated...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 4, 2020 | News in Brief
As per media reports, dated September 1, 2020, the Atal Tunnel at Rohtang, near Manali, is near completion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate it this month. Under the Pir Panjal range, it is named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and will...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 4, 2020 | News in Brief
As per media reports, dated August 27, 2020, Chief Justice S.A. Bobdeled SC bench passed an order in favour of uniform education policy, in a plea, which sought directions for the government to ensure participation of all children, including those who belong to the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 4, 2020 | News in Brief
As per media reports, dated August 16, 2020, a paper on the calculation of how a perturbed black hole rings out, by Dr. C.V. Vishveshwara, was first published in the journal Nature, in 1970. This was the gravitational wave, that would emerge from a black hole when it...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 4, 2020 | News in Brief
As per media reports, dated August 28, 2020, a five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court said sub-classifications within scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) by the States for granting reservation is not unconstitutional, which contradicted a...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 3, 2020 | News in Brief
India Elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. India was overwhelmingly elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in June 2020, for a period of two years in an unprecedented election, where envoys from the 192 member states...
