Sansad TV: Perspective

Rules for Foreign Universities

admin2023-01-20T08:25:27+05:30 1. Expert in Panel M. Jagadesh Kumar, Chairman, University Grants Commission Harsh V. Pant, Professor, King’s College, London Amalendu Mishra, Dept. of Politics, Philosophy & Religion, Lancaster University, United Kingdom 2. Reason for being in the news The University Grants Commission (UGC) released the draft UGC (Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Highe...

India’s Resilient Economy

admin2023-01-20T08:21:13+05:30 1. Experts in the panel Dhanendra Kumar, Former Executive Director, World Bank Anand Singh Bhal, Former Principal Economic Advisor, Govt. of India Subhomoy Bhattacharjee, Consulting Editor, Business Standard 2. Reason for being in news The World Bank has said that the Indian economy is expected to grow at the rate of 6.6 percent in the fiscal year 2023-24, though it proje...

‘India: The Voice of Global South’

admin2023-01-20T08:04:56+05:30 Expert in Panel [1]. Don McLain Gill, Director for South & Southeast Asia, PMESA [2]. Rahul Kumar, Roving Editor, India Narrative [3]. Virendra Gupta, President, Antar Rashtriya Sahyog Parishad 2. Reason for being in news The Voice of Global South'. Respond, Recognise, Respect & Reform to re-energise the world…That’s the four-point mantra Prime Minister Narend...

Ken-Betwa Interlinking Project

admin2023-01-20T07:59:51+05:30 1. Expert in the panel Avinash Mishra, Advisor, WR, E&F, Climate Change, Tourism, NITI Aayog Abinash Mohanty, Sector Head, Climate Change & Sustainability, IPE Global C.K. Varshney, Environmentalist & Former Dean, School of Environmental Sciences, JNU 2. Reasons for being in News The Centre has approved the implementation Ken-Betwa river link project. 3. Disc...

Theatre Commands

admin2022-12-27T10:36:46+05:30 1 Expert in the Panel Vice Admiral, (Retd). Shekhar Sinha, Former Head of India’s Western Naval Command Air Vice Marshal Sunil Nanodkar (Retd.), Defence Expert Lt. Gen Vinod Bhatia (Retd.), Former Director General of Military Operations, Indian Army 2. Reasons for being in News New Chief of Defence Staff Lt. General Anil Chauhan recently asked the Indian Armed Forces to p...

Spurious Drug Menace

admin2022-12-26T13:26:35+05:30 1. Experts in the Panel Raman Gangakhedkar, Dr. C.G. Pandit National Chair, ICMR Sanjay Singh, Director & CEO, Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd M.C. Mishra, Former Director, AIIMS, New Delhi 2. Reasons for being in News The death of 66 children in Gambia, linked to cough syrups manufactured by an Indian firm, has spurred the government to launch an urgent probe into th...

India’s Soft Power

admin2022-12-26T12:27:25+05:30 1. Expert in the Panel Prakash Javadekar, MP, Rajya Sabha Prabhu Dayal, Former Ambassador Harsh V. Pant, Vice President, Studies and Foreign Policy, ORF 2. Reasons for being in News In addition to economic and military power, the idea of soft power has gained importance during the past few decades. 3. Discussion 3.1. What is Soft Power? Coined by Nye in the late 1980s, t...

Artificial Intelligence in Defence

admin2022-12-24T05:44:52+05:30 1. Expert in Panel Lt Gen Rajeev Sabherwal (Retd.), Defence Analyst Lt Gen Sudhir Sharma (Retd.), Defence Expert 2. Discussion 2.1. Artificial Intelligence It describes the action of machines accomplishing tasks that have historically required human intelligence. It includes technologies like machine learning, pattern recognition, big data, neural networks, self algorith...

New Era in Indian Space Sector

admin2022-12-21T12:09:45+05:30 1. Expert in the Panel Surendra Pal, Distinguished Scientist & Former Senior Advisor, ISRO W. Selvamurthy, President, Amity Science, Technology & Innovation Foundation, Amity University Ratan Shrivastava, Author & Independent Consultant on Aerospace 2. Reasons for being in News 18th November, 2022 will go down in history as a significant day, marking a new er...

Food Loss & Waste

admin2022-12-21T11:42:20+05:30 1. Expert in the Panel Dr. Ruchika Singh, Director, Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration, WRI India Alok Sinha, Former Chairman and Managing Director, the Food Corporation of India Urmi Goswami, Senior Journalist 2. Reasons for being in News The International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW) is being observed for the third time on 29 September 2022 with...

India’s Polar Endeavours

admin2022-12-19T10:21:55+05:30 1. Expert in Panel 1- Dr. M. Ravichandran, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences 2- Pankaj Saran, Former Deputy National Security Advisor of India 3- Dr. Sasmit Patra, BJD MP, Rajya Sabha Sulagna Chattopadhyay, Head, Science & Geopolitics of Himalaya-Arctic- Antarctic 2. Reason for being in News The spotlight is on India’s Polar endeavours...that includes the Arctic, ...

Data Localisation

admin2022-12-19T09:58:28+05:30 1 Expert on the Panel Khushbu Jain, Advocate, Cyber Security Laws Amit Dubey, Data Technology Expert Huzur Saran, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Delhi 2. Reason for being in News In 2006 British mathematician Clive Humbly said that Data is the oil of the 21st Century. This has indeed turned out to be true with the rapid growth of the digi...

Legalising Same-Sex Marriage

admin2022-12-16T13:36:09+05:30 1.  Expert in Panel: Priya Hingorani, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court Reena Rai, Founder & Chairperson, Miss Trans Queen India (LGBTQ+ Activist) V. Rajyalakshmi, Department of Sociology, JDMC, University of Delhi 1. Reason for being in the news The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre Govt on a plea by two gay couples seeking recognition of same-sex marr...

India’s G20 presidency

admin2022-12-16T13:17:35+05:30 1.  Expert in Panel Prabhu Dayal, Former Ambassador Harsh V. Pant, Vice President, Studies and Foreign Policy, ORF Alok Bansal, Director, India Foundation 1. Reason for being in the news Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently unveiled India’s logo and theme for its presidency at the G20 2. Discussion 2.1. Introduction: India will assume the presidency of the G20 grouping f...

COP27 – Progress & Outcomes

admin2022-12-16T13:21:28+05:30 1. Expert in Panel: Vibha Dhawan, Director General, The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI) Yatish Rajawat, Senior Journalist Abinash Mohanty, Sector Head, Climate Change & Sustainability, IPE Global 1. Reason for being in the news Outcomes of United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27. 2. Discussion 2.1. Introduction: A breakthrough agreement was reached at t...

RBI’s Digital Currency

admin2022-12-15T06:49:55+05:30 1. Expert in Panel: Ashok K. Nag, Former Advisor, Reserve Bank of India Subhomoy Bhattacharjee, Consulting Editor, Business Standard Amit Dubey, Digital Technology Expert 2. Reason for being in news The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently announced the commencement of India’s first Digital Rupee pilot project for specific use cases 3. Discussion The use cases for the pil...

Informal Economy Challenges & Opportunities

admin2022-12-15T06:19:14+05:30 1. Expert in Panel V. Anantha Nageswaran, Economist & EX EAC-PM A.K. Bhattacharya, Editorial Director, The Business Standard Shankar Aggarwal, Former Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment, GoI 2. Reasons for being in News The informal economy is a global and pervasive phenomenon. According to Internal Labour Organisation approximately 60 per cent of the world...