Category: Must Read News Articles

Archives GS: 1 Society and women related issues: 26-week maternity leave for women contract employees In a significant verdict, the Kerala High Court has ruled that women contract employees working in government funded projects are entitled to 26 weeks of maternity leave as applicable to women employees under the service rules. GS: 2 International relations:… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – March 20, 2018

Archives GS: 1 Art and Culture: Bilaspur’s stone age tools link Sivalik cultures(The Hindu) Researchers from the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) have discovered a number of Acheulian artefacts (dated to about 1, 500,000–1,50,000 years ago) along with contemporary Soanian ones from an unexplored site at Ghumarwin in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh. The site… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – March 19, 2018

Archives GS:1 Society related issues: Promoting torture in India(The Hindu Opinion) After all, talented professionals have sharpened their skills of custodial torture Breaking the silence(The Hindu Opinion) According to UN data, 66% of Indian girls are unaware of menstruation before their first period. For 23% to 28% of girls in rural India, periods, together with… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – March 18, 2018

Archives GS: 2 International relations: The self-blinding Russia prism(The Hindu Opinion) The ‘Russia collusion’ narrative in the U.S. has rendered any diplomacy between the two countries impossible. ‘Can’t compare Sri Lanka refugees and Rohingya’(The Hindu) Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, who fled the war in the island nation in the 1980s, stood on a “different footing”… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – March 17, 2018

Archives GS:1 Society related issues: Haryana Assembly okays death penalty for child rape(The Hindu) The Haryana Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a Bill which provides for death penalty to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 years or less. GS: 2 International relations: Pakistan asks its envoy to return for ‘consultations’(The Hindu) Pakistan on… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – March 16, 2018

Archives GS:1 Society related issues: ‘Declare polygamy in Islam illegal’(The Hindu) A fresh plea was on Wednesday filed in the Supreme Court seeking to declare as “illegal” and “unconstitutional” the practices of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ among the Muslim community. GS: 2 International relations: Far short of the potential(The Hindu Opinion) The India-Japan economic relationship… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – March 15, 2018

Archives  GS:2 International relations: The French connections(The Hindu Opinion) The Macron visit underlined the growing strategic convergence that draws India and France together Indian Constitution and Polity: SC shuts the door on foreign law firms(The Hindu) Keeping India’s legal market exclusively for Indians, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that foreign law firms or foreign… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – March 14, 2018

Archives GS: 1 Art and culture: Artefacts of ‘pre-Iron Age’ excavated in Odisha(The Hindu) Archaeological Survey of India, which has been excavating a mound at Jalalpur village of Odisha’s Cuttack district, has now come across stone and bone tools believed to be of early Iron Age. Society related issues: SC seeks data on child sex… Continue reading Must Read News Articles – March 13, 2018