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Sep92017 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-SEPT 9 2017 [UPSC DAILY CAPSULE]

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS General Studies-01 Marriage most foul Case of ‘Arab nikah ’, a type of Muslim marriage is known in Hyderabad under different names & forms. Modus operandi Detailed conversations with multiple sources in the police and the community reveal the sad picture of how a group of dalals (touts) persuade vulnerable, impoverished families with three or four minor daughters with a story of how sheikhs hold the promise of altering their lives for the better. In some cases, they say this is a ‘short-term marriage of convenience’ in exchange for money. Once convinced, the family pressures their young daughters. Touts produce documents to show the girl as an adult and her signature is taken on blank bond papers, to come in useful later…

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HINDU NOTES-SEPT 8 2017 [UPSC DAILY CAPSULE]

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS General Studies-02 U.S. backs sale of fighters to India News: The Trump administration has told the U.S. Congress that it “strongly supports” the sale of F-18 and F-16 fighter planes to India. Beyond news: These are built by American companies Boeing and Lockheed Martin respectively. Both companies have offered to assemble these planes in India, should New Delhi decide to buy them. U.S. lawmakers and bureaucrats, in general, have been enthusiastic supporters of proposals to sell these fighters to India, and are now presenting them as deals that could reduce America’s trade deficit with India and create more jobs in America than they relocate — issues that are on top of Mr. Trump’s agenda. F-16 and Gripen Built by Swedish company Saab,…

Sep72017 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-SEPT 7 2017 [UPSC DAILY CAPSULE]

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS General Studies-02 Attacks by cow vigilantes must stop, SC tells States News: Attacks on innocents by cow vigilantes must stop, the Supreme Court said. Beyond News: It ordered the States and the Union Territories to appoint nodal police officers in every district to crack down on such groups. BJP-ruled Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Gujarat accepted the apex court’s suggestion to appoint dedicated officers in the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police to prevent ‘gau rakshaks,’ as they call themselves, from taking the law into their own hands or becoming a law unto themselves. Context: A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and A.M. Khanwilkar was hearing an intervention by Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, Tushar Gandhi, about…

Sep62017 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-SEPT 6 2017 [UPSC DAILY CAPSULE]

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS General Studies-01 Journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead. News: Nationally renowned journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh, 55, known for her firebrand writing on social issues, was shot dead by unidentified assailants, right outside her residence in Rajarajeshwari Nagar in west Bengaluru. Beyond News: Earlier she was punished for defaming a political leader (6 months & 10,000 fine). She got bail from higher court recently. 2 years ago,another writer MM kalburae killed in a similar way near his house. The police are analyzing footage from two CCTV cameras installed at her house and believed that they may hold vital clues. They said that she had neither complained to the police of any threats to her life nor sought security. General Studies-02 Modi’s 10 ‘noble…

Sep52017 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-SEPT 5 2017 [UPSC DAILY CAPSULE]

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS General Studies-01 Who were the first settlers of India? When did our species, Homo sapiens, first set foot in India? There are two competing versions of the answer: let’s call them the ‘early version’ and the ‘late version’. What is early version? The ‘early version’ says they arrived 74,000 to 120,000 years ago from Africa through the Arabian peninsula with Middle Stone Age tools such as scrapers and points that helped them hunt their prey, gather food, or make clothes. What is late version? The ‘late version’ says they arrived much later, around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, with upgraded technology such as microlithic (tiny stone) tools that might have been used to give sharp tips to arrows and spears. Difference between…

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HINDU NOTES-SEPT 4 2017 [UPSC DAILY CAPSULE]

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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS General Studies-02 N. Korea tests ‘hydrogen’ bomb, sparks outrage {IR} News: North Korea tested a ‘hydrogen’ bomb which it can mount on a missile, declaring its biggest-ever nuclear detonation a “perfect success.” Beyond News: Experts are judging it by the its explosion, and it was appeared to be its most powerful explosion yet. This sparked a strong rebuke from U.S. President Donald Trump who slammed the act “dangerous.” But world reaction to the country’s sixth nuclear test was swift and angry. China rebuked its ally and began emergency monitoring for radiation at its border with the North. Hours before the test, the North released images of leader Kim Jong-un at the Nuclear Weapons Institute, inspecting what it said was a miniaturised H-bomb that could be…