Archives GS 2 Govt. grants divisional status to Ladakh Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Friday granted Ladakh a divisional status, thus creating three administrative units of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh in the State. Forty years after the Iranian revolution The Iranian revolution was surprising not because it caused a monarch to collapse,… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 9th, 2019
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Must Read News Articles – February 8th, 2019
Archives GS 2 The road to peace runs through Tehran Iran is not a newcomer to regional diplomacy in Afghanistan. First and foremost, India should try to dissuade the U.S. from dealing with Iran, Russia and China as enemies. Irking the Dragon By walking out of the INF treaty, the U.S. may have dragged China… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 8th, 2019
Must Read News Articles – February 7th, 2019
Archives GS 2 SC may curb advocates from speaking on cases The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to examine the possibility of imposing curbs on advocates airing their views in the media about pending cases and the judges handling them, during a hearing on contempt petitions filed by the government and the Attorney General of… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 7th, 2019
Must Read News Articles – February 6, 2019
Archives GS 2 Cracks in the framework In a democracy, individuals are governed by institutions, and not by men. If we do not live in an institutional universe, we will be at the mercy of capricious individuals. Democrats would rather be administered by a system of rules we can scrutinise and evaluate. A series of… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 6, 2019
Must Read News Articles – February 5th, 2019
Archives GS 2 A national register of exclusion There are few parallels anywhere else of the state itself producing statelessness in the manner that it is doing in Assam An appeasement Budget The Interim Budget makes clear the class hierarchy in the Modi government’s scheme of populism Visa crackdown The arrest of 129 Indians on… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – February 5th, 2019
Must Read News Articles – February 4th, 2019
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
Must Read News Articles – February 3rd, 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
Must Read News Articles – February 2nd, 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
Must Read News Articles – February 1st, 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
Must Read News Articles – January 31st, 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
