Month: March 2017
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Must Read News Articles – March 30
The Hindu Front Page / NATIONAL Supreme Court bans sale of BS-III vehicles from April 1: The health of the citizen is more important than the commercial interests of the automobile industry, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday and ordered a freeze on the registration and sale of BS-III fuel compliant vehicles by “any manufacturer or…
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UPSC Current Affairs Questions and Answer Writing – Mains Marathon – March 30
Read the following questions and answer them by clicking on the links in not more than 200 words Time: 30 Minutes Kindly review each others answers. 1.List some differences between chemical and physical weathering. Describe the significance of weathering. (GS 1) रासायनिक और शारीरिक मौसम के बीच में अंतरों की सूची लिखें। इसके महत्वों का वर्णन करें। Link-1 |…
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UPSC Interview Transcript: Sujata Mehta Board – Computer Science Background, 27th March 2017
Hello Friends, Here is Another Interview Transcript. Candidates those who have appeared in Interviews, kindly post your Interview Transcripts Here. Sujata Mehta Board (Noon session) 27.03.17 Lasted 30 mins roughly Home state: U.P. (Varanasi) Background: B.Tech Comp Science, No Work-ex Optional: Geography Hobbies: Reading crime and Fantasy fiction and Writing fanfiction, Calligraphy, Board Games Read the Interview…
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UPSC Interview Transcript: Vinay Mittal Board – 27th March, 2017
Interview date: 27-03-2017 Interview board: Vinay Mittal Background: IIT (Metallurgical Engineering) Employment and work-ex (if applicable): IT Domicile: UP Optional: Sociology Hobbies: Playing Cricket, Listening Ghazals Chairman: 1. You have a long career in IT. What innovative work you have done there?(i have got few awards in various IT companies) 2. You must have seen…
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9 PM Daily Current Affairs Brief – 29 March 2017
Front Page / NATIONAL [The Hindu] [1].States get warning to brace for heat waves [2].New Bill on mental illness termed progressive [3].Can’t appoint Lokpal for now, Centre tells SC Editorial/OPINION [The Hindu] [1].Whither human rights in Sri Lanka? [2].Unique distinction: SC’s clarification on Aadhaar gives space for reforms Economy [The Hindu] [1].Centre may expand social security…
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UPSC Interview Transcript: Arvind Saxena Board – 28th March, 2017
Interview date: 28-03-17 Interview board: Arvind Saxena Background: IIT (Chemical Engineering) Employment and work-ex (if applicable): 1 yr work ex in petroleum refinery Domicile: Jaunpur, UP Hobbies: Playing Cricket CHAIRMAN Why you quit your previous job? Skill India Mission is not working well. Only 2% of the institutions can provide marketable skills. This hampers…
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Prelims Capsule: The Blue Rebellion of 1859
March 1859, the ryots (peasants) of Bengal, frustrated with coercive actions of Indigo planters and their lathiyals (lathi-wielding strong men of Planters), as the payment they offered to the ryots did no good to them and they couldn’t grow rice after cultivating indigo on the same land, the ryots took to arms and refused to…
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UPSC Interview Transcript: Chhatar Singh Board – Working Professional, Hindi Literature
Mr. Chhatar Singh 4 members (2 F, 2 M) Hindi Literature, ME background, Working in Power Sector PSU CM 1) Sandhi vichhed of name 2) Which books… Which biographies you have read 3) Why we write poems on certain things while many other aspects are seldom touched 4) When Hindi prose came into existence 5) Why…
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Can we trust the EVMs? – Daily Editorial
Context EVMs – Electronic Voting Machines as they are called have once again come to the forefront to bear the brunt of the criticism by the losers in the recently held assembly elections to five states in India. All that raises the question in the minds of the public, on whether we can trust the…