Newspaper Must Read Articles of The Day– 16 October 2015

Newspaper articles bearing
relevance to Civil Services preparation

The Hindu

National/ Front Page

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International 

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Business

• Government trying to increase domestic opium production:India is the only country legally allowed to produce gum opium.Opium poppy plant is the source of opium gum, which contains several indispensable alkaloids such as morphine, codeine and thebaine. Morphine is the best analgesic in the world.( Economic development.– GS Paper 3)

Opinion-Editorial

• Mainstreaming a nuclear Pakistan:India should offer conditional support to a civilian nuclear deal between the U.S. and Pakistan while insisting that Islamabad signs the ‘No-first-use treaty’.Do you think it is in India’s interest to ensure that Pakistan’s nukes are under international supervision?
  ( India & Neighbourhood, GS Paper 2)

• Tying up innovation in legal knots: Do you think Software patents restrict technological progress and encourage monopolization?,Countries like New Zealand and Germany have already moved to reconfigure their patent regimes to abolish software patents.(Science and tech- GS Paper III,)

• Breaking the bonds of rural poverty: FAO chose social protection and agriculture as the theme of World Food Day this year. Social protection increases both on-farm& on-farm activities, strengthening livelihoods and lifting incomes. It also fosters investment in the education and health of children,&reduces child labour. Economic development.– GS Paper 3)

Indian Express

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The Economic Times/Financial Express

• No point merging banks just for the sake of it: Author Madan Sabnavis, Discusses various reasons which makes a bank to merge and debates equivocally why Banks shouldn’t do it and highlights it with various solutions which can make banks not to opt for it. (Government policies. – GS Paper II)

LiveMint

• The crisis Europe needs :Well Germany  and Sweden cannot be expected to be the only destinations for all refugee arrivals, and this crisis has given rise to a threat to its single market union formed by EU that might lead to dismantle Schengen agreement which talks about free trade among 28 European nations.( Regional trade- GS Paper II)