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Newspaper articles bearing relevance to Civil Services preparation The Hindu National — International  — Business Efforts on to make tea industry climate-smart – With recent changes in climate, the climate risk is rising alarmingly especially in hilly areas. The article looks into different practises being adopted to make tea plantations adopt to climate change.(Environment, Agriculture-…

Newspaper articles bearing relevance to Civil Services preparation The Hindu National Let’s speak in one voice against Yettinahole project, says BJP –   All that you should know regarding this issue is What is Yettinahole project?. (General Awareness) Capital spending shows pick-up -Planned Expenditure has shown robust growth according to CAG which is a good fiscal…

Newspaper articles bearing relevance to Civil Services preparation The Hindu National India will set emissions reduction target: Javadekar – India’s Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) will contain an emissions reduction target, as well as a target for reducing energy intensity. Mr. Javadekar said India is no match to China when it comes to economic growth or GDP per…

Newspaper articles bearing relevance to Civil Services preparation The Hindu National India to hold G20 Chair in 2018, Delhi may play host – India is set to be the G20 Chair in 2018, and New Delhi could host the prestigious annual G20 summit. The G20 operates as a forum and not as an organisation. Therefore, it does…

Newspaper articles bearing relevance to Civil Services preparation The Hindu National RBI move could make your loans cheaper -RBI reduces Repo rate by 50 basis points to 6.75% to spur demand in the economy. With festive season ahead banks can pass on the benefits by making  loans more cheaper.(Indian Economy- GS Paper III) Rafale deal…

Newspaper articles bearing relevance to Civil Services preparation The Hindu National Zuckerberg for balance between access and Internet neutrality – internet.org has been re branded as “Free and Basic Services”. In context of net neutrality, there is a mention of another business example such as Jana, which provided data access within strict definitions of net…

Newspaper articles bearing relevance to Civil Services preparation The Hindu National Modi boots up ‘Digital India’ with high-profile Silicon Valley show – Following Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Silicon valley ,the heads of top tech firms like Qualcomm,Google, Apple and Tesla  have agreed to contribute to our Digital India and Make in India programs mostly…

Newspaper articles bearing relevance to Civil Services preparation The Hindu National G4 leaders seek time-bound U.N. reforms – In the wake of negotiating text for reforms in UNSC being adopted by United Nations General Assembly, G4 (India, Brazil, Japan & Germany) push for reforms in their first meeting in decades and urged with changing geopolitics…

Newspaper articles bearing relevance to Civil Services preparation The Hindu National Our march in step with U.N. vision: Modi – The article talks about how India’s development goals are aligned with sustainable development goals announced recently. Signals point to better economic activity: CEA – Chief Economic Adviser states that economy is giving mixed ambiguous signal.…

Newspaper articles bearing relevance to Civil Services preparation The Hindu National Centre puts the brakes on JNNURM research projects, capacity-building – The Urban Development Ministry has asked 36 States to terminate their research and capacity-building measures under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), a move that will roll back the achievements of the…