Insights Daily Current Affairs, 09 August 2016 Paper 2 Topic: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources, issues relating to poverty and hunger. MAA– a programme to promote breastfeeding Government has launched National Breastfeeding Promotion Programme– MAA (mothers’ absolute affection) to …
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Insights Daily Current Affairs, 04 August 2016 Former BSF D-G to head Naga ceasefire monitoring group Former Director General of BSF D.K. Pathak has been appointed as the new chairman of the Ceasefire Monitoring Group(CMG) that was created in 2001 to formalise a permanent peace accord with Naga groups. This is the …
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Insights Daily Current Affairs, 30 July 2016 Paper-2: Issues and challenges pertaining to the federal structure, Mahadayi: Karnataka bandh may hit life today The Mahadayi water-sharing dispute has the states of Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka vying for water from the Mahadayi river River Mahadayi Mahadayi, the west-flowing inter-state river in the Western …
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Insights Daily Current Affairs, 27 July 2016 Paper 2 Topic: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. Irom Sharmila to end fast, contest elections in Manipur Sixteen years after starting her hunger strike demanding the repeal of the Armed …
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Insights Daily Current Events, 24 June 2016 Paper 2 Topic: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora. India’s NSG bid stops at China wall China has remained the last major obstacle in the way of India’s membership bid in the Nuclear Suppliers Group as …
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Insights Daily Current Events, 22 June 2016 Paper 3 Topic: conservation. NHAI to mitigate impacts on wildlife NHAI has approved an estimate of Rs. 58.16 Crore to mitigate impacts on Wildlife in Karnala Bird Sanctuary (KBS) for widening of part of Panvel – Indapur section of NH-17. This section constitutes the direct …
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Insights Daily Current Events, 21 May 2016 Paper 2 Topic: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures. Centre sets up panel to relook defence spend The government has appointed a committee of experts to recommend measures to enhance …
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Insights Daily Current Events, 13 February 2016 Archives Paper 3 Topic: Disaster management. Review of Progress of Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP) The centre recently reviewed the progress of Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP). Focusing on the need for continuous improvement in the capacities of implementing agencies (IAs) about 44 trainings have …
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Insights into Editorial: A Case for Expanding DBT 08 January 2016 Article Link So far, Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) has been able to tackle two major issues associated with subsidies in India-targeting and leakages. This makes the time ripe to have DBT for all subsidy programmes. What is DBT? The government’s DBT plan involves transferring …
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Insights Daily Current Events, 03 November 2015 Archives Paper 2 Topic: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation. SC takes serious view of job scheme arrears The Supreme Court has sought the Centre’s response on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition, alleging haphazard implementation …
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Insights Daily Current Events, 26 August 2015 Archives ………………… Paper 1 Topic: Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India. Muslim population growth slows Recently released Census data show that India’s Muslim population is growing slower than it had in the previous decades, and its growth rate has slowed more sharply than that of the …
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Insights Daily Current Events, 20 August 2015 Archives India Post, 10 others get nod for payments banks The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given its approval in principle for 11 entities to set up payments banks. The 11 entities are: India Post, Reliance Industries Ltd., Aditya Birla Nuvo, Tech Mahindra, Sun Pharma, National Securities …
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