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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]

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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…

Feb12018 by albindiaNo Comments

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…

Jan302018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-January 29 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 10,000-year-old crayon found in Britain News: Archaeologists have discovered in Britain one of the earliest examples of crayon possibly used by our ancestors 10,000 years ago for applying colour to their animal skins or for artwork. Beyond News The ochre crayon was discovered near an ancient lake, now blanketed in peat, near Scarborough in North Yorkshire. An ochre pebble was found at another site on the opposite side of the lake. Ochre is an important mineral pigment used by prehistoric hunter-gatherers across the globe. The findings, suggest people collected ochre and processed it in different ways during the Mesolithic period. The latest discoveries helped further our understanding of Mesolithic life. Hindu Notes from…

Jan232018 by albindiaNo Comments

HINDU NOTES-January 22 and 23 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 WEF 2018: Modi meets Swiss President Alain Berset News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22, 2018, met Swiss President Alain Berset and discussed ways to deepen bilateral ties on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual summit. Beyond News Mr. Berset said the discussions marked the meeting of the biggest and the oldest democracies in the world. Two leaders had productive discussions on steps to further deepen our bilateral cooperation built upon our shared values of democracy and diversity. Sources said the two leaders are also believed to have discussed the progress on automatic exchange of tax information. A legislation in this regard was passed by the Swiss Parliament, following…

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HINDU NOTES-January 17 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 Megalithic era sarcophagus unearthed at Viyur News A rare sarcophagus (stone coffin), said to be 2,000-year old from the Iron Age–Megalithic era, was discovered from a rock-cut cave at Viyur village of Kollam, near Koyilandy, in Kozhikode district in Kerala. Beyond News The coffin containing bone fragments was found during an excavation. So far, such a rare finding has been discovered only from two sites in Kerala. The bone fragments could be of either a man or a woman. They will be sent for carbon dating using accelerator mass spectrometry at the Beta Analytical Laboratory in California. Excavation at the site commenced after a hemispherical rock-cut chamber was discovered in a compound while flattening…