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08 Oct, 2019
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Paper | Topics | Subject |
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GS-I | The great disruption of 2016 | |
GS-II | Delhi needs to do more to protect and deepen ties with Dhaka. | International Relations |
GS-III | The fight over Mumbai’s Aarey Colony |
GS-III: The great disruption of 2016
Context
India’s overnight ban on high-value currency notes in 2016 was a shock.
Studies
Research
Source: Indian Express
Context
Sheikh Hasina made a four-day official visit to India.
Joint statement
From the meet
Bangladesh – internal picture:
Trouble in India-Bangladesh relations
What Bangladesh delivered
India
Way ahead
Source: Indian Express
GS-III: The fight over Mumbai’s Aarey Colony.
News
Aarey Colony
The Aarey Milk Colony was envisioned by Dara N Khurody, the less famous colleague of Verghese Kurien. The two shared Ramon Magsaysay Award for their work in 1963.The Colony was established in 1949 and was inaugurated by then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1951.
Why under siege?
Where do things stand in the Aarey Milk Colony tree-felling case matter?
What is the core issue?
Why does Metro want the car shed here?
MMRCL argues that this land belongs to the state it is with the Dairy Development Department — and therefore, the long, messy, and expensive process of acquisition can be avoided, with zero additional cost to citizens.
Aarey is located 800 metres from SEEPZ, the last station on the 33.5-km Colaba-SEEPZ line the optimum distance from where operations can be serviced swiftly.
How will this affect Aarey environment?
What is the argument about the environmental cost of the project?
Arguments for the Project
Source: Indian Express
GS-III: MOSAic Mission News Vishnu Nandan, a 32-year-old polar researcher from Kerala, will be the only Indian among 300 scientists from across the world aboard the MOSAiC expedition. MOSAiC MOSAiC stands for Multidisciplinary drifting observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate.
GS-I: Sultanpur Lodhi News A town in Punjab’s Kapurthala district, Sultanpur Lodhi, is at the centrestage of the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev, founder of the Sikh religion. The Guru Nanak Dev link: It was in Sultanpur Lodhi that the Sikhism founder
GS-III: A road to economic revival runs through agriculture. News One of the world’ fastest growing economies,India is now facing sluggish growth with the RBI sharply cutting GDP growth forecast to 6.1% for 2019-2020 which is slowest in last 6 years. Effects on primary sectors:
GS-III: Geotail News Recently on board with Chandrayaan-2 mission, an instrument called CLASS, designed to detect signatures of elements in the Moon’s soil, had detected charged particles during the mission. This happened in September, during the orbiter’s passage through t
A welcome move, but it’s unlikely to spur demand News With the 25 basis points (bps) rate cut, RBI returned to the conventional wisdom of a rate change in multiples of 25bps. RBI statement MPC decided to continue with an accommodative stance as long as it is necessary
GS-I: Origin of Urdu Context Recently Punjab University had proposed to merge Department of Urdu language with school of foreign languages to be set up after merging departments of French, Russian, German, Chinese and Tibetan. The move earned huge criticism and Punjab CM objected to this mo
GS-III: Planet Nine. News Planet Nine Hidden in the outer Solar System lurks a presence, believed to be a gigantic planet orbiting the same Sun and casting a visible influence on the behaviour of a number of other objects. Although it has not yet been spotted, this behaviour would
GS-II: In search of the Wuhan spirit. News The second informal summit between the leaders of India and China is scheduled to take place in the second week of October. Wuhan summit At the Wuhan Summit last year, a decision was made to hold more such summits, aimed at ensuring &ldq
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