IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -FEBRUARY 23 & 24 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -FEBRUARY 23 & 24 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

Current affairs, Daily hindu notes, Editorial analysis, hindu notes, IAS EXAM, IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES, MAINS 2020, PIB notes, PRS NOTES, TARGET 2020, The Hindu Notes
IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-01 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE Haryana: Ancient city in Sirsa, under a mound & 50,000 people News: A mound in Sirsa indistinguishable from the dusty background of most Haryana small towns could hold clues to the ancient city of ‘Sarishika’. Beyond News: Falling on the old route to Takshashila, the 6th-5th century BC city found mention in the Mahabharata, Panini’s Ashtadhyayi and the Buddhist text Divyavadana. However, before the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) can confirm the historicity of the site, it has to convince the nearly 50,000 people living on the identified 82 acres to move. With 788 families forcibly rehabilitated three years ago following a high court order still struggling for basic amenities, the residents, many of whom settled here…
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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -JANUARY 21 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -JANUARY 21 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-01 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE One in three girls from poor households has never attended school: UNICEF News According to a UNICEF paper released, poverty, gender discrimination, disability, ethnic origin or language of instruction, physical distance from school and poor infrastructure are the major obstacles that prevent children from impoverished families from accessing quality education. Addressing the learning crisis The UNICEF launched its study “Addressing the learning crisis” at the Education World Forum as world leaders prepare to convene the World Economic Forum in Davos. The study says that exclusion of the poorest children from education is a key driver of a global learning crisis. Highest out-of-school ratio Analyzing the data from 42 countries, the UNICEF  finds that education for children from the…
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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -JANUARY 19 and 20 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -JANUARY 19 and 20 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-01 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE India’s richest 1% hold four times more wealth than 70% of poor: Oxfam News India’s richest 1 per cent hold more than four-times the wealth held by 953 million people who make up for the bottom 70 per cent of the country’s population, while the total wealth of all Indian billionaires is more than the full-year budget, a new study said. Wealth Rights group Oxfam also said the world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 per cent of the planet’s population. The report flagged that global inequality is shockingly entrenched and vast and the number of billionaires has doubled in the last decade, despite their combined wealth having declined…
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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -JANUARY 18 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -JANUARY 18 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-01 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE Delhi: Proposal to cut NCR area to preserve farm land News Due to a difficulty in maintaining financial and administrative efficiency over a large area and to protect farmer-owned land from rapid urbanisation, the National Capital Region Planning Board is (NCRPB) explored the possibility of reducing the area of the National Capital Region (NCR) area at a stakeholder conference held with the states of Rajasthan, UP and Haryana, and the Union Territory of Delhi Friday at Vigyan Bhawan. National Capital Region Planning Board The NCR consists of 14 districts of Haryana, eight of Uttar Pradesh, two of Rajasthan, and the whole of Delhi, and is spread over approximately 55,083 sq km. A presentation in the conference showed…
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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -JANUARY 17 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -JANUARY 17 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-01 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE Report: Drop in death sentences awarded by trial courts News The number of death sentences awarded by trial courts in India saw a significant drop from 162 in 2018 to 102 in 2019, according to ‘Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report 2018’, prepared by Project 39A of the National Law University, Delhi. Significant drop According to the report, 52.94 per cent of the 102 death penalties last year (54 death sentences) were given in cases involving sexual offences. No death sentence was awarded in 11 states Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim in 2019, while Rajasthan topped the list with 13 death sentences. Madhya Pradesh,…
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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -JANUARY 16 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULE -JANUARY 16 2020 NOTES [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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IASTODAY DAILY CAPSULES -General Studies-01 IASTODAY CAPSULES are available free -date wise => CLICK HERE Centre signs new package to permanently settle Mizoram’s Bru migrants in Tripura News The Centre signed a quadrupartite agreement to resolve the 22-year-old Bru displacement crisis in Tripura and announced that over 30,000 Bru migrants, who are languishing in six relief camps since October 1997, would be settled in the state. The government has also declared Rs 600 crore package for resettling them. Bru displacement crisis The agreement would basically redirect the entire package, previously announced for repatriation to Mizoram, which includes Rs 1.5 lakh housing assistance to the migrants into three installments: Rs 4 lakh one-time cash assistance for sustenance to be handed over after 3 years, Rs 5,000 monthly cash assistance, and free ration for two years to migrants…
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