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Aug292017 by albindiaNo Comments

CURRENT AFFAIRS-UPSC DAILY CAPSULE-AUG 29 2017

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS Agreeing to disagree{International Relations} News: One hopes the decision on Doklam, which comes a week before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to go to China, will guide the bilateral spirit beyond the September 3-5 BRICS summit to be held in Xiamen. Chinese stand: Statements from China during the stand-off indicate that it no longer recognises the gains made in the Special Representative talks in 2012. Nor does it regard the India-Bhutan-China tri-junction near Batang-La to have been settled. India's Stand: India has made it clear that it does not consider the Sikkim boundary settled either, and both sides will have to walk swiftly to come back to some semblance of an accord on such basic issues before they can move further.…

Aug282017 by albindiaNo Comments

CURRENT AFFAIRS-UPSC DAILY CAPSULE-AUG 28 2017

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS From plate to plough: Tall tales for farmers{Agriculture} Source: Indian Express. News: In his Independence Day speech, the prime minister referred to farmers 12 times. He talked about several achievements in agriculture — providing soil health cards to nine crore farmers and the enhanced crop insurance scheme. Beyond News: He also mentioned that 99 projects under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana will be completed by 2019, FDI in food processing will be encouraged, supply of inputs to farmers will be ensured and they will be assisted in marketing their produce. The PM concluded by saying, “Together we will build such an India where the farmers can sleep without worry. In 2022, they will earn double of what they earn today”. Initially,…

Aug262017 by albindiaNo Comments

UPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS-DAILY CAPSULE-AUG 26 2017

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS Privacy ruling to have bearing on beef ban cases: SC{Rights Issues} Nb: Hindu Limited this issue to a sentence,This is from Indian express. News: A day after a nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that right to privacy is a fundamental right, a two-judge bench of the court observed that the privacy ruling will have a bearing on the Maharashtra beef ban case pending before it. Beyond news: “The judgment will have some bearing on these cases,” the bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan remarked while hearing cross-appeals against the Bombay High Court order decriminalising possession of beef in case the animal was slaughtered outside the state even as it upheld the ban on slaughtering of…

Aug252017 by albindiaNo Comments

UPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS-DAILY CAPSULE-AUG 25 2017

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS Citizen vs State {Rights Issues} News: In a rare unanimous verdict pronounced by nine judges, the Supreme Court has ruled that privacy is a fundamental right that requires constitutional protection. Beyond news: This restatement of first principles became necessary mainly due to a strange and perverse argument by the Union government in the course of the hearings on the validity of its Aadhaar-based unique identity scheme that privacy is not a fundamental right. The fact that all the judges unanimously came down on this argument shows how much the government misunderstood the constitutional underpinnings of privacy as a value in itself and as an ineluctable facet of human dignity. The government argued that privacy is “so amorphous as to defy description”, that…

Aug242017 by albindiaNo Comments

UPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS-DAILY CAPSULE-AUG 24 2017

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS OBC list to be sub-categorized News: In a move that could have a far-reaching political and social impact, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to set up a commission which will examine the issue of sub-categorization of the Other Backward Classes (OBC). Beyond News: The committee has a three-point mandate. One, it has to examine the “extent of inequitable distribution of benefits of reservation” among various castes and communities that come under the Central OBC list. The committee also has to work out the mechanism, criteria and parameters for the actual sub-categorization. This will be tricky. The actual reservation will continue to be 27% and within this the committee will have to do the re-arranging. Examples: If the committee comes…

Aug232017 by albindiaNo Comments

UPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS-DAILY CAPSULE-AUG 23 2017

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS [Op-Ed]Undoing injustice By declaring the discriminatory practice of instant triple talaq as unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has sent out a clear message that personal law can no longer be privileged over fundamental rights. Three of the five judges on the Constitution Bench have not accepted the argument that instant talaq, or talaq-e-biddat , is essential to Islam and, therefore, deserves constitutional protection under Article 25. The biggest virtue of the two opinions constituting the majority judgment is that they do not have to undermine any religious tenet to make their point. Views: Justice Kurian Joseph says, the forbidden nature of triple talaq can be gleaned from the Koran itself. Justice Rohinton Nariman, writing the main judgment, locates the practice in the fourth…