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(Voice Notes) Current Affairs Daily & Weekly Update: 29 JAN 2013 "Topic: Paving way for the implementation of G.S.T."

Current Affairs Daily Voice Notes

Daily Voice Notes

Spotlight/News Analysis (29 Jan):

  • Topic of Discussion: Paving way for the implementation of G.S.T.
  • Analyst: V. Raghuraman (Former Secretary General Associate), Shivaji Sarkar (Senior Economic Journalist)

Selected Articles from Various News Paper: Civil Services Mentor Magazine January 2013

Selected Articles from Various News Papers & Journals: January 2013

  • Taking a Hard look at Soft Power
  • Three characteristics
  • As diplomatic bridge
  • A culture policy
  • Short-term is negative
  • Bihar’s caste curse
  • Guilty on many counts, not corrupt
  • Demonisation game
  • Significance of 2004
  • Second innings
  • Give the Saranda Development Plan a chance
  • Humour is by no mean exempt from prejudice
  • To know is to protect
  • WGEEP mandate
  • Ecologically sensitive areas
  • A layered approach
  • Manifold challenges
  • Next steps
  • Ability more than a seven-letter word
  • Body and disability
  • Four points
  • Manmohan’s sermon at Los Cabos
  • $10 billion contribution

Sex Education in India - Need of The Hour: Civil Services Mentor Magazine January 2013

SEX EDUCATION IN INDIA - NEED OF THE HOUR

The term ‘Sex Education’, also known as sexuality education or sex and relationships education, is widely used to depict education about reproductive system, sexual interaction and other facets of human sexual behavior. It is the procedure of gaining knowledge and developing mind-set as well as ideas about sex, sexual identity, human relations, closeness, gender roles, contraception methods and prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)1 and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)2. It is also an effective way to respect one’s partner, wife, husband and also a means to admire sexual preferences. The misinterpretation of the people that are generally kept under the wraps should be cleared and they should be convinced about the need for sex education in this rapidly changing era. It is important that youth should be familiar with the purpose of providing education in order to develop an open and healthy approach towards sex and sexuality in order to assist them to make well-thought judgments.

(Voice Notes) Current Affairs Daily & Weekly Update: 28 JAN 2013 "Topic: India-Bangladesh Relation"

Current Affairs Daily Voice Notes

Daily Voice Notes

Spotlight/News Analysis (28 Jan):

  • Topic of Discussion: India-Bangladesh Relation
  • Analyst: Veena Sikri (Former Diplomat), Jyoti Malhotra (Senior Journalist)

(Date Sheet) Himachal Pradesh PSC: HPAS (Main) Examination - 2011

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Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission

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Development and Population Control: Civil Services Mentor Magazine January 2013

DEVELOPMENT AND POPULATION CONTROL

DEVELOPMENT, according to many analysts, is “the best contraceptive”. But if we look at India, there seems to be some doubt about the statement’s truth. In India, planned development and family planning have been going on for over four decades now. But our population problem has only become more disturbing over the time. The fruits of development are seen on the food front where production has gone up three and a half times since 1951. Life expectancy has increased, so has the gross domestic product. We are among the first 15 countries in industrial production. Schools have proliferated. However, population growth has not slowed down much. The increase in population, in fact, dilutes every improvement in India’s national development.

Child Labour-a Blot on The Face of Democracy: Civil Services Mentor Magazine January 2013

CHILD LABOUR-A BLOT ON THE FACE OF DEMOCRACY

“India is the largest child labour force market in the world. The problem of child labour is its roots of colossal proportions. The notion that children are being exploited and forced into labour, while not receiving education crucial to development, concerns many people. India is the largest example plagued by the problem of child labour”.

Current figures of the number of children engaged in child labour in India are not available. This difficulty is attributed to the fact that the Indian Government “has been negligent in its refusal to collect and analyze current and relevant data regarding the brutal incidence of child labour. As of 1996, official figures continue to be based on 1981 census figures”. The 1981 Indian census reports that there were 13.6 million child labourers in India. Indian government extrapolations of 1981 data place the current number of child labourers at between seventeen and twenty million (Human Rights Watch 1996). This extrapolation seems highly unlikely as “The Official National Sample Survey of 1983 reports 17.4 million child labourers, while a study sponsored by the Labour Ministry, concluded that the child-labour force was 44 million”. UNICEF “cites figures ranging from seventy-five to ninety million child labourers under the age of fourteen”. A universal difficulty in obtaining accurate data maybe that individuals fail to report child labour participation during surveys for fear of persecution.

Joint CSIR – UGC Test For JRF & Eligibility For Lectureship (NET), June, 2013

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research

Joint CSIR – UGC Test For JRF & Eligibility For Lectureship

National Eligibility Test (NET), June, 2013

CSIR will hold the Joint CSIR-UGC Test on 23rd June, 2013 for determining the eligibility of the Indian National candidates for the award of Junior Research Fellowships (JRF) NET and for determining eligibility for appointment of Lecturers (NET) in certain subject areas falling under the faculty of Science & Technology. The award of Junior Research Fellowship (NET) to the successful eligible candidates will depend on their finding admission/placement in a university/national laboratory/ institution of higher learning and research, as applicable.

A candidate may apply either for ‘JRF’ OR for ‘Lectureship (LS) only’ He/she may indicate his/her preference in the OMR Application Form/Online Application, as the case may be. CSIR may consider candidates applying for ‘JRF’ or ‘Lectureship only” depending on number of fellowships available & performance in the test subject to the condition that they fulfill the laid down eligibility criterion . If a candidate is found to be over-age for JRF (NET) he/she will automatically be considered for Lectureship (NET) only.

The final result of this Single MCQ test may be declared sometime in the month of September, 2013 and fellowship to successful candidates could be awarded from 1st October, 2013 with the validity period of 2 years for joining the fellowship under CSIR Scheme.

Subjects of The Test:

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