Must Read Current Affairs Articles – Sep 18th 2021

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We are posting Today’s Must Read Current Affairs Articles below:

GS Paper 2

Act and friction: On appointments to tribunals

Syllabus Topic – Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies

The other virus amid a raging pandemic

Syllabus Topic – Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health

Break down the glass walls for women in STEM (Indian Express)

Syllabus Topic – Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to education

Picking up the threads from the Afghan rubble

PM on Kabul: Questions on acceptability, think together on recognition  (Indian Express)

Syllabus Topic – India and its neighbourhood- relations

Australia informed India about AUKUS, says envoy

AUKUS sets a new course in Indo-Pacific, rattles China, buys more time for India to enhance maritime security(Indian Express)

Syllabus Topic – Important International institutions, agencies, and fora- their structure, mandate

GS Paper 3

GST Council not for inclusion of petroleum products: Finance Minister

Syllabus Topic – mobilization, of resources – taxation

Bad bank will help clean up balance sheets, but credit culture must change for healthier financial system 

Syllabus Topic – money and banking

National Monetisation Pipeline shows promise — and limits (Indian Express)

Syllabus Topic –  changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth

Where are the high productivity, better quality jobs in India? (Indian Express)

Syllabus Topic – employment

Major restructuring of Railways on anvil

Syllabus Topic – Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.

Biden unveils plan to cut methane emissions

Syllabus Topic – Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation

Explained: Why ‘black tigers’ sound a warning (Indian Express)

Syllabus Topic – Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation