Newspaper Must Read Articles of The Day– 29 October 2015

Newspaper articles bearing
relevance to Civil Services preparation

The Hindu

National

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International 

• Nepal gets first woman President:Nepal’s Parliament elected communist lawmaker Bidhya Bhandari as the country’s first woman President after the adoption of a landmark Constitution last month(Persons,Prelims)

Business

• India can be a Top 100 country in a year: Kaushik Basu: The 2016 report found that while India has performed well on some indicators such as protecting minority investors, the improvement has been lacklustre on other important criteria such as enforcing contracts and registering property.(Economic development- GS Paper III)

Opinion-Editorial

• Reforms need to reach the needy: What has been the record of India in terms of economic growth and social development in the post-liberalisation period? Between 2009-10 and 2011-12, according to the Tendulkar Committee’s methodology, the reduction in poverty ratio was 7.9 points. According to the Rangarajan Committee’s methodology, it was 8.7 points.(Economic development- GS Paper III)

• Civil hands must soothe uncivil tempers:  “What, if anything, can be done to improve India-Pakistan ties?” The answer, it turns out, rests not in the halls of government, but in the hands of Indian and Pakistani civil society practitioners working together, outside of government, to build meaningful and constructive connections.(International Relations – GS Paper II)

• Carving out a path on China’s road :China’s renewed push into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir through its $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative. The subsequent “Karamay Declaration” of August 2015 defined Pakistan’s role in China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative(International Relations – GS Paper II, Internal Security GS Paper III )

Indian Express

Editorials & Columns

• At the crossroads:India’s has been one of the largest contributors of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO). 80%of India’s peacekeepers are presently serving in Africa, and 70 per cent of all casualties have been sustained there India must have a serious dialogue with African countries on its role in future peacekeeping operations on the continent(International Relations-GS Paper II, Internal Security GS Paper III )

LiveMint

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Economic Times/ Financial Express

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