HINDU NOTES-February 7 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

HINDU NOTES-February 7 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-02 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE Supreme Court cancels 88 mining leases in Goa News The Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled 88 mining leases in Goa that were renewed by the State government in 2015 just before the Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act mandated the auction of mining leases. Beyond News All mining activity, involving the Iron and Manganese mines, in Goa would come to a halt by March 15. A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta said the government would examine the applications for mining leases afresh in accordance with the law. It said that,the renewal of mining leases was hasty and illegal. Hindu Notes from General Studies-03 Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh to be…
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HINDU NOTES-February 6 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

HINDU NOTES-February 6 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-02 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE ‘When 2 adults marry, none should interfere’ News: Two adults are free to marry and “no third party” has a right to harass or cause harm to them, said Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, speaking against honour killings . Beyond News: When two people get into wedlock, no one should interfere. Neither parents, society, khap or panchayat... no one at all, said Justice Misra, leading a three-judge Bench that upheld the fundamental right of two people who wish to marry and live peacefully. A senior counsel, who represented the khap panchayat, objected to the panchayats being portrayed as “inciters” of honour killings. The counsel said such panchayats were age-old traditions and they…
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HINDU NOTES-February 3 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

HINDU NOTES-February 3 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-02 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE Universal Health Scheme to be launched in two weeks News: A day after the announcement of the National Health Protection Scheme by the Modi government, the Karnataka government has decided to roll out the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the third week of February, bringing all government health schemes under one umbrella. Significance: Karnataka would be the first State to implement the scheme in the country. Beyond News: Under the UHC, entire population of the State (1.43 crore families) would be brought under the health scheme, irrespective of the income of the families. There would be no cap on the medical expenditure to be incurred by any patient in government hospitals at all…
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HINDU NOTES-February 2 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

HINDU NOTES-February 2 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-02 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE Clinical establishments Bill a game changer News The Kerala Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Bill, 2017, passed by the Assembly, is a far-reaching and comprehensive legislation and the single most public health measure which is expected to change the face of health care in Kerala. Beyond News Changes made by bringing in more transparency and accountability in the functioning of both public and private sector hospitals. There had been stiff opposition to the Bill from within the medical fraternity, with many raising apprehensions that small and medium hospitals would be adversely affected and that the cost of health care would actually go up. Though there were demands to waive the registration process for…
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HINDU NOTES-February 1 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

HINDU NOTES-February 1 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-01 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE Stone tools offer insights into history of human evolution. News Based on the study of over 7,200 stone artefacts collected from the archaeological site at Attirampakkam in the Kortallayar river basin about 60 km from Chennai, researchers suggest that hominins in India may have developed a Middle Palaeolithic culture phase around 3,85,000 years ago and continuing up to around 1,72,000 years ago. Beyond News According to earlier evidence, the Middle Palaeolithic culture in India was dated to around 1,25,000 years ago. The Middle Palaeolithic is an important cultural phase, associated as it is globally with both modern humans and Neanderthals or other archaic hominins, with complex histories of interaction, cultural transitions and change…
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HINDU NOTES-January 31 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

HINDU NOTES-January 31 2018 [UPSC IAS Current affairs]

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Hindu Notes from General Studies-01 Editorials are covered separately. HINDU NOTES are available free date wise| CLICK HERE ‘Mammals, birds likely to survive climate change’ News Researchers said that,mammals and birds stand the best chance of all animals of surviving Earth's rapidly changing climate. Beyond News: An analysis of how nearly 11,5000 species fared over 270 million years of hot-and-cold fluctuations showed that warm-blooded creatures cope better with change than reptiles and amphibians, a team reported in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. Findings When a massive space rock crashed into Earth some 66 million years ago, the debris thrown in the atmosphere lowered the planet's temperature for decades. The shock wiped out the world's non-avian dinosaurs, from T-Rex to the three-horned Triceratops. But warm-blooded land mammals survived, and then thrived…
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