Category: Must Read News Articles

Archives GS 2 Centre’s crackdown hits Greenpeace Greenpeace has been forced to close two of its regional offices and “considerably” reduce its staff in India because of a government crackdown on allegedly unlawful foreign funding of NGOs. Legitimacy of the basic structure The doctrine may be derived from the abstract. But it exists within the… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 4th, 2019

Archives GS 1 Stupa-hopping in Sarnath From Bodh Gaya, Buddha went to the Deer Park (Mrigadava) in Sarnath, where the five monks who had been with him during his ascetic phase were staying. It was there that he gave his first sermon, an event known as the Dharma Chakra Pravarttana, or turning of the wheel… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 3rd, 2019

Archives GS 2 Govt. gives up on triple talaq Bill he government has effectively given up on at least two of its more controversial legislations — the Citizenship Amendment Bill and the Triple Talaq Bill — that were awaiting consideration by the Rajya Sabha, after opposition parties made clear that they could not guarantee smooth… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 2nd, 2019

Archives GS 2 Heading towards strategic instability India must be alert as there is a possibility of emerging disruptive technologies prompting inadvertent conflict In the Northeast, a David versus Goliath battle The Chief Ministers of Meghalaya and Mizoram, a representative of the Nagaland Chief Minister, and an ally of the BJP government in Tripura declared… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 1st, 2019

Archives GS 2 Centre hikes scholarships The Centre has hiked its popular research scholarship — called the Junior Research Fellowship — to Rs. 31,000 per month, a roughly 25% increase from the existing Rs. 25,000. States may have to fund for MGNREGA wages States struggling to pay workers under a national employment guarantee scheme have… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – January 31st, 2019

Archives GS 2 Include Chin refugees in citizenship Bill: Chakma NGOs Eight organisations of the Chakma community on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the Ministry of Home Affairs seeking the inclusion of Chin refugees in India by further amending the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016. GS 3 Rajasthan Zika strain is endemic to Asia, says new… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – January 30th, 2019

Archives GS 2 Capable even if disabled An institutional display of pure and simple discrimination dressed up as legal reasoning is unacceptable U.S. declares it has agreed upon peace framework with Taliban American and Taliban officials have agreed to the framework of a peace deal in which the insurgents guarantee to prevent Afghanistan from being… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – January 29th, 2019

Archives GS 2 Dancing around the Supreme Court On January 17, the Supreme Court struck down several statutory provisions and rules governing Maharashtra’s dance bars. This decision forms part of an iterative game that has evolved over 14 years between the Maharashtra government and the courts. Seven northeastern States lag behind in toilets for schoolgirls… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – January 28th, 2019

Archives GS 1 Soon, you can see how the Harappans looked A team led by Prof. Vasant Shinde, Vice-Chancellor, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Deemed University, Pune, is on the brink of recreating the faces of a few skeletal remains, dug up during the excavation of a Harappan site at Haryana’s Rakhigarhi village in… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – January 27th, 2019

Archives GS 2 SC upholds bankruptcy code, cites improved financial flows In a whoop of victory for credits markets and entrepreneurship, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the constitutionality of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), saying the law sends a clear message that India is no longer “the defaulter’s paradise”. Crisis in Caracas The… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – January 26th, 2019