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Is the NITI Aayog relevant today?

The ‘Yes, No, It’s complicated’ column of The Hindu for 21st September 2018, analyses the relevance of NITI Aayog in the governance...

21 Sep 2018 News Editorials

Mission Gaganyaan

21 Sep 2018 Paper 3

Multidimensional Poverty Index by UNDP and OPHI

The 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released  by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and...

21 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Important Facts for Prelims (21st September 2018)

Tirumala Rathotsavam Gaiety and religious splendour marked Rathotsavam at Tirumala, on the penultimate day of the nine-day annual Srivari...

21 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Mission Gaganyaan

Why in News? The Prime Minister of India in his Independence Day address announced that an Indian astronaut would go into space by 2022, when...

21 Sep 2018 Paper 3

Understanding Financial Crisis of 2007-08

The article ‘Ten years on, in uncharted waters’ appears in The Hindu for 19th September, 2018. It traces the reasons behind the financial...

20 Sep 2018 News Editorials

Modern India

2018 1. Consider the following events: The first democratically elected communist party government formed in a State in India. India's then...

20 Sep 2018 GS Paper I (Subject Wise)

New SEBI norms for FPI

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has said that it will implement most of the recommendations of H.R. Khan panel on the Know Your...

20 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Amalgamation of Three Public Sector Banks

The government has proposed the amalgamation of Bank of Baroda (BoB), Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank. This was decided at the meeting of a ministerial...

19 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Cyclone-30

Medical Cyclotron Facility Cyclone-30 Became Operational at Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata. With increasing number of Indians...

19 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Polity

2018 1. Right to Privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of Right to Life and Personal Liberty. Which of the following in the Constitution of...

19 Sep 2018 GS Paper I (Subject Wise)

Depreciating Rupee

The article ‘Where goes the rupee?’ appeared in The Hindu on September 17. It analyses the causes and implications of the rupee...

18 Sep 2018 News Editorials

NCSK Data on Manual Scavenging Deaths

Recently, five manual scavengers died after inhaling toxic fumes in Delhi's Moti Nagar Area. The National Commission for Safai Karamcharis (NCSK)...

18 Sep 2018 News Analysis

'Future of Jobs' Report by WEF

The World Economic Forum (WEF) in its report 'Future of Jobs' found that machines are increasingly replacing jobs done by people. It projected that...

18 Sep 2018 News Analysis

NITI Aayog Report on Shifting Cultivation

A recent NITI Aayog publication on shifting cultivation has recommended that the Ministry of Agriculture should take up a “mission on shifting...

18 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Meghalayan Age

18 Sep 2018 Paper 1

Ethics in Buddhism & Jainism

18 Sep 2018 Paper 4

Ancient History and Art & Culture

2018 1. Consider the following pairs: Tradition                           ...

18 Sep 2018 GS Paper I (Subject Wise)

Important Facts for Prelims (17th September 2018)

M.S. Subbulakshmi Recently 102nd birth anniversary of M.S. Subbulakshmi was celebrated. She was was one of India's greatest carnatic...

17 Sep 2018 News Analysis

Citizen Charter

17 Sep 2018 Paper 2