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UPSC 2017: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS (Aug 06 - Aug 12)

UPSC 2017: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS (Aug 06 – Aug 12) for IAS Exam Preparation.

7 Minutes Read: Revision of Current Affairs made easy!

This section is the one place where IAS Aspirants can find the whole week’s news analysis for UPSC Current Affairs Preparation. This initiative is to make candidates current affairs revision easy and help them to remember important issues or events covered in a week.

Here, candidates can find the important news covered from 06 Aug to 12 Aug 2017 and categorized into GS Papers I, II, III, and IV of UPSC Mains Syllabus.

UPSC 2017 CURRENT AFFAIRS WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Aug 06 - 12

GS PAPER I
HISTORY
  1. State gets cultural policy
SOCIAL ISSUES
  1. Unique initiative to promote small family norm

 

GS PAPER II
POLITY
  1. Naidu sweeps V-P polls with 516 votes
  2. Hold competitive exams in regional languages: KDA
  3. Lok Sabha passes Bill for setting up petroleum institute in Andhra
  4. Wages of being a legislator
  5. Subsidise rail losses: PMO
  6. After SC order, focus on chemicals in firecrackers
  7. Kerala bats for right to privacy
  8. Nine High Courts oppose all-India judicial service
  9. Failing our children
  10. States cold to stricter anti-racial law
  11. Supreme Court seeks Centre’s reply on validity of special status to J&K
  12. New system for rating bureaucrats open to bias: Anand Sharma
  13. Kerala, Haryana top sanitation survey
  14. No more vehicle insurance without pollution certificate
  15. Karnataka favours centralised selection for district judiciary
  16. RTE’s heart is in the right place—but not its head
  17. There must be a common NEET question paper: SC
  18. SC seeks details of convictions under Child Marriage Act
  19. TN appeal on NEET quota dismissed
  20. Push for law to ensure transparency rules
  21. Allow payment, live-in couples: House panel for more liberal surrogacy Bill
  22. Do not touch
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
  1. Swiss happy with India’s data security
  2. Pressure on Nepal over Doklam standoff
  3. Dhaka to open mission in Chennai
  4. UAE joins chorus of concern over Doklam
  5. Nepal tightens laws against dowry, menstrual exile
HEALTH ISSUES
  1. Expert panel to review dengue clinical norms
  2. It’s time to focus on the toxic air we breathe

GS PAPER III
ECONOMICS
  1. Price of rapacity: On SC rules against illegal mining
  2. A field of her own
  3. China’s RCEP push veils grand plan
  4. Let’s talk about a supplemental income
  5. Loan-pricing systems: For better transmission, RBI in search of yet another benchmark
  6. ATM expansion slows due to note ban
  7. Food security: SC raps Centre, States
  8. Logistics Data Bank project to expand to South India
  9. Food for action: on food security in India
  10. GST impact on the logistics sector
  11. Growth likely to be in the lower range, closer to 6.5%
  12. Ease norms for airlines to fly abroad’
  13. Survey backs U.P. model on farm loan waivers
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  1. Low-cost, sensitive CO sensor from IISc
  2. Should we fear Artificial Intelligence?
  3. ISRO to develop full-fledged Earth observation satellite
  4. The hybrid route
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
  1. Not everything labelled ‘organic’ passes muster, finds study

 

GS PAPER IV
ETHICS, INTEGRITY AND APTITUDE
  1. Editing ourselves: On genes and ethics

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