UPSC 2017 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS (MAY 21 - MAY 27)

Now find the whole week’s current events for UPSC Current Affairs in one place and make your own current affairs notes for IAS Exam at ease.

The segment provides most important current events from 14 May to 20 May 2017. Below listed are the events in the news that will help the candidates to revise and remember the important news and events for UPSC Current Affairs.

May 27

• New restrictions on cattle slaughter
• Notification comes after SC directive
• Glitch in govt. transfers delays rs. 3045 cr in NREGA wages
• Commercial e-vehicles won’t need permits
• DRDO’s aero test range to be inaugurated tomorrow
• New bridge will spur a revolution: Modi

May 26

• Modi gears up to meet Putin
• Prices of 31 more drugs capped
• India retains world’s highest FDI recipient crown: Report
• Green writing on wall: OPEC agrees to India plan for joint study

May 25

• Fresh move to impeach Justice Nagarjuna Reddy
• An Abe-Modi plan for Africa
• U.S. proposes cut in aid to Pak.
• Centre may expand UDAN’s wingspan
• Cabinet nod for phasing out FIPB

May 24

• The Three Year Agenda
• Rajasthan: 600 more health centres to be converted into model units
• NGO evolves blueprint to end female genital mutilation
• Australian scientists create world’s thinnest hologram
• Ecological concerns over combustible ice

May 23

• Muslim law board files affidavit in SC, says ‘triple talaq undesirable practice, will issue advisory against it’
• No room yet for India in NSG, says China
• Modi launches new projects in Kutch, Gujarat
• Pradhan seeks discount on oil
• World’s smallest nation ratifies Solar Alliance Pact
• Army set to get 11 attack helicopters

May 22

• The coal block allocation case may become a benchmark for other ongoing prosecutions
• Defence deals await private firms
• Bid to boost India, Africa trade ties
• Urjit to brief MPs’ panel on note ban only in June Framing of monetary policy to hold up RBI Governor conflict through talks
• ‘Centre has plan to make AI a great global airline’
• Green energy target tough, say officials Rooftop solar programme making poor progress as it is not cost-effective
• Google woos start-ups to heat up its cloud Offers technology that combines a large amount of storage and computing to ventures that study Earth and simulate cities

May 21

• EVM hackathon from June 3
• Indian EVMs far superior: EC
• Private firms eye key defence role
• India taking part in global disaster risk reduction meet in Mexico
• Moon orbiting solar system’s third largest dwarf planet found

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