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Archives GS 2 IAF plane shot down, pilot taken captive by Pak. army An Indian pilot was captured by Pakistan after a major aerial confrontation and chase between Pakistan Air Force planes, which dropped bombs in four locations of Jammu and Kashmir, and Indian Air Force jets that countered them over the Line of Control… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 28th, 2019

Archives GS 2 India bombs Jaish camp in Pakistan’s Balakot Twelve days after the Pulwama attack, the Indian Air Force bombed the Jaish-e-Mohammad’s “biggest” terror-training camp in Pakistan’s Balakot early on Tuesday. SC pitches for mediation in Ayodhya case A five-judge Constitution Bench, led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, has proposed a court-monitored… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 27th, 2019

Archives GS 1 Re-imagining Delhi Urban problems are not urban in isolation; they are national problems. Cities are in need of duly empowered municipalities and institutional systems and processes for closely coordinated and accountable agencies that can deliver in areas such as sanitation, health, education, mobility and housing. GS 2 Coalition of the concerned In… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 26th, 2019

Archives GS 2 Protests, arson rock Itanagar, two dead Two protesters were killed in firing by security forces and three others injured in Itanagar as protests over granting permanent resident certificates (PRCs) to six communities escalated on Sunday. India to push for UN ban on JeM chief With the UN Security Council and the Paris-based… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 25th, 2019

Archives GS 2 Niyamgiri’s Dongria Kondh gird for ‘resistance’ after SC order With a recent Supreme Court order triggering panic among forest dwellers over possible eviction, Odisha’s Dongria Kondh tribals have resolved to resist any attempt to force them out. Safety, pollution top issues among women voters: survey When women exercise their ballot, they are… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 24th, 2019

Archives GS 2 Home Ministry puts Assam Rifles notification on hold The Union Home Ministry has kept its order that empowered Assam Rifles, deployed along the Myanmar border, to arrest anyone and search a place without warrant in border districts of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram “in abeyance.” Ensure safety of Kashmiris, orders… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 23rd, 2019

Archives GS 2 Assam Rifles granted power to arrest anyone in the Northeast Assam Rifles, deployed along the Myanmar border, has been empowered by the Centre to arrest anyone and search a place without warrant in the border districts of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram. Picking sides in West Asia India could find… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 22nd, 2019

Archives GS 2 India pitches for global action against terrorism The joint statement urged for early adoption of the UN Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism and pitched for “comprehensive sanctioning of terrorists and their organisations by the UN.” Odisha forum comes up with ‘six Cs’ for voters Odisha’s Jan Jagran Abhiyan has decided to start… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 21st, 2019

Archives GS 2 Quash Kulbhushan verdict, says India The first day of oral arguments in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague concluded with India accusing Pakistan of “knowingly, wilfully and brazenly” flouting the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. The contractual functionary From the early 1990s, government jobs could… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 19th, 2019