Category: Daily Initiatives
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Must Read News Articles – April 24
The Hindu Front Page / NATIONAL Step up spending on infra, PM tells States: NITI Aayog formulating 15-year vision plan. SC bats for the rights of Internet users: More and more problems make their way to the court. Heat claimed 4,620 lives in four years: Over 4,620 people died in India due to severe heat wave over…
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Must Read News Articles – April 23
The Hindu Front Page / NATIONAL Taliban attack leaves 140 soldiers dead in Afghanistan: Toll could rise in assault on 209th Corps headquarters near Mazar-e-Sharif. Soon, underwater tunnels will connect Howrah with Kolkata: A first in India, the two 520-metre structures are part of a 10.8 km underground stretch and are crucial to the East West Metro…
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Reservation debate
Context Recently, the Union government has embarked on reconstituting National Commission for Backward Classes by graduating it to the levels of National Commissions for SCs and STs as a constitutional body. This lay open the faultlines in the reservation policy and how it underlies a political current which sometimes burst in the form of reservation…
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Must Read News Articles – April 22
The Hindu Front Page / NATIONAL Why force people to get Aadhaar, SC asks Centre: The Supreme Court on Friday questioned the Centre’s logic to make Aadhaar card mandatory for filing income tax returns, asking whether this would act as a remedy to end the generation of fake Permanent Account Number (PAN) and ration cards. Navy…
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9 PM Daily Current Affairs Brief – April 21 2017
Front Page / NATIONAL [The Hindu] [1]India makes fresh bid to get Headley, Rana [2]States to be consulted on BC panel Bill [3]China’s Arunachal move ‘illegal’ [4]Logistics pact with U.S. ‘almost done [5]India, EU likely to resume talks Editorial/OPINION [The Hindu] [1]Trading away our digital rights [2]Closer to Brussels Economy [The Hindu] [1]Auctions may help…
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Understanding Indian Monsoon
Context The Indian Meteorological Department has announced normal monsoon this year in 2017 after two drought years in 2014 and 2015, with respite in 2016. The fact that Indian agriculture is largely dependent on the monsoon reveals the good prospects for Indian economy ahead in the year given agriculture being the base. Simultaneously, it will…
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Must Read News Articles – April 21
The Hindu Front Page / NATIONAL India makes fresh bid to get Headley, Rana: India has made a fresh request to the U.S. for the extradition of David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana, wanted for their roles in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. States to be consulted on BC panel Bill: A select committee of the Rajya Sabha…
