9 PM Daily Current Affairs Editorials – August 4, 2017

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• Defenders of varna: (Indian Express, Editorial)
• The ambiguous sugar coating of caste system

• A field of her own: (Indian Express, Editorial)
• A new image for the “Indian farmer”
  

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  (Analysis for all three editorials amalgamated)

• NOTA option to stay in Rajya Sabha polls: (The Hindu)
• NOTA in use in RS polls since 2014: (The Hindu)
• Impact of NOTA will be like abstention: (The Hindu)

• NOTA to stay as an option for Rajya Sabha elections

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  India’s first private missile production facility unveiled:

• India pushes for private companies in defence equipment production

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• Centre mulls changing minimum wages formula: (The Hindu)

• Labour ministry forms panel to relook at minimum wage fixation formula

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• Restoring Parliament’s primacy: (The Hindu, Editorial)

• Parliamentary Budget Office helping Indian Parliamentarians

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