Update : Green Card

In what could be a major boost to Indian Engineers and Researchers aiming to work in the United States, the lower house of the US Legislature, the House of Representatives, passed the High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019. This bill will ..

Mexico beats US to lift 8th CONCACAF Gold Cup

Mexico’s men’s soccer team won 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup by defeating United States men with 1-0 in the final. This is Mexico’s record 8th Gold Cup title. Key Highlights While US is the defending champions of biennial North American championship, ..

Month: Current Affairs - July, 2019

Short Note : Iran’s Nuclear Program

Iran has recently announced that it would increase the uranium enrichment of its uranium program to 3.67%. While this has sent alarm bells ringing in the United States and in the other West European countries, Iran claims that the uranium ..

Short Note : Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering is unethical but legal practice in the United States. It is used by political parties to establish an unfair advantage for a particular party or electoral group by manipulating the boundaries of the electoral district. The term owes its ..

Update : US Democratic Party primaries

In the run-up to 2020 American Presidential polls, the American Democratic party is currently organizing the primaries to select its Presidential candidate for the polls. The primaries and caucuses will be a series of electoral contests organized by the Democratic ..

Short Note – Death Penalty

In a United Nations General Assembly(UNGA) resolution aimed at examining options to end the trade in goods used for capital punishment and torture, India abstained from voting on it. India s position is that it is unacceptable to place the ..

Terror Attacks in Afghanistan

An alleged terrorist attack by the Taliban killed at least 25 pro-government Afghanistan Forces in the province of Baghlan, located in northern Afghanistan. What is the Taliban? The Taliban is a fundamentalist religious and political movement which ruled most of ..

Update – Trump’s Border Wall

US President Donald Trump may have to wait a little longer to get his promised border wall as a US Federal Judge prohibited President Trump from using federally allocated funds to build sections of the wall along the high-priority segments ..