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Table of Contents:
Articles:
- Goods and Services Tax
- National Mineral Exploration Policy
- South China Sea
- Selected Articles from Various Newspapers & Journals
Current Affairs:
National Issues
- Centre is likely to announce Rs 25,000 crore capital infusion for public sector banks
- Kudankulam successfully operationalised the first two reactors
- Kodaikanal town is facing acute water crisis
- Hubble Telescope has imaged the supernova Crab Nebula’s ‘beating heart’
- Tension across the Kashmir valley
- Kerala says it is serious about IS
- Defence Ministry is considering a full review
- NATO agreed to maintain troop numbers in Afghanistan
- US President calms situation after shooting
- Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani dead
- Good rainfall increased Rice cultivation
- Apex court puts limitation on AFSPA
- IUCN puts Bornean orangutan in critically endangered
- China wants India to engage with China directly
- Nuclear security group membership is focus of PM's Africa visit
- PM focuses on terror in his Africa's visit
- Volcanic eruptions in India and asteroid in Mexico brought end to dinosaurs
- Upgraded Soyuz spacecraft starts journey for ISS
- Joseph E. Stiglitz says crackdown on NGO's hurting India's image
- Apex court cautions Judges of judicial activism
- Process to select new CBI director started
- Govt increases pace for cleaning Ganga
- Govt redraws its team
- Madras High Court provides guidelines for freedom of expression
- High proportion of freshwater biodiversity in the Kerala moving towards extinction
- Cabinet to be expanded
- Big and high-end diesel cars pollute less says Govt.
- Sensitive electronic nose with metal-organic frameworks built
- Pacific Ocean radiation nears pre-Fukushima level
- Apex courts asks reasons for less disabled people in govt services
- Another terrorist attack in Baghdad
- Kiribati's survival in danger
- Terrorists attack in Bangladesh
- Loss-making PSU's to be considered for closure and strategic disinvestment
- India revived proposal for Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism
- Union govt sought law commission’s views UCC
- India successfully tested surface-to-air missile
- India adds various new species
- India gets huge help from WB for solar project
- MHA against proposal of business visitors to get visa-free entry
- ‘State of the World’s Children’ report for 2016 released by UNICEF
- Govt clears countries first National civil Aviation policy
- Apex court to decide about declaring Nilgiri, monkey and wild boar as vermin
- President make a case for reforms in UN
- RajasvaGyan Sangaminaugurated by PM
- The three women are set to create history as India’s first women fighter pilots
- Kerala’s Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancrore issue still unsettled
- Gulbarga society case verdict delivered
- Basic trainer aircraft HTT-40 successfully flies
- IIT-B moved from 46 to 35 in the Quacquarelli Symonds university rankings
- First official transit to India’s north-east via the inland waterways of Bangladesh
- Governor of the Central bank announced that he would not seek second term
- History was created when Defence Minister presented ‘wings and brevets’ to 3 women
- Draft report on the new national policy on education
- T.S.R. Subramanian panel critical to higher education regulator (UGC)
- Govt rein in on pulses hoarders
- The model code of conduct (MCC) for polls is under review by a Parliamentary Committee
- China shifts its strategy on India’s NSG membership
- A high-power committee recommended changes to infrastructure along coast
- The Environment Ministry has proposed a new policy for the management of forests
- India looking towards Mozambique for pulse imports
- India putting all efforts for NSG
- ISRO launched 20 satellites though a single rocket
- India to become a member of SCO
- Brexit is complete
- Govt gives confidence after Brexit
- India did'nt get entry into NSG
- India hopes of NSG entry through special plenary
- 80 per cent of companies had been victims of fraud in 2015-16
- Ministry of Women and Child Development has instituted the National Child Award
- PM indicates of crackdown on tax evasion
- India joined the Missile Technology Control Regime
- NITI Aayog is working on a strategy for a tracking system for health parameters
- U.S. wants progress in investment pact talks with India
- More than one crore government employees to get hike
- World bank President to meet PM
- U.S. says Chinese act in South China Sea is a madness
- IS attacked Istambul airport
International Issues
- Bangladesh bans controversial preachers TV
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s coalition on track for a decisive victory
- Bangladesh says terrorist attack was conducted by homegrown terrorism
- The Prime Minister to lead Britain out of the EU will be a women
- U.K’s Iraq War Inquiry report came
- US announced that 8,400 troops will remain in Afghanistan into 2017
- Bangladesh hopes that the global community will support in fighting terrorism
- Beijing and Tokyo at loggerheads
- Chinese media says India needs to move away from historical burdens
- Afghanistan is seeing calm after some time
- China to hold military drills in the disputed South China Sea
- IS retains ability to strike amid losses
- Bangladesh says it will remove the terrorists
- Democrats will continue to invest in a long-term strategic partnership with India
- Haibatullah Akhundzada called on the USA to end its “occupation” of Afghanistan
- Haibatullah Akhundzada called on the USA to end its “occupation” of Afghanistan
- Another socking death of Hindu priest in Bangladesh
- Many people in Britain now regret voting for Brexit
- Countries urged Sri Lanka to do much more for reconciliation
- China blames US for trying to drive wedge between regional countries
- Core sector grew by 2.8 percent
- Money held by Indians in Swiss banks has fallen by nearly one-third
- IMF says Brexit is topmost global risk
- US President hosts Tibetan spiritual leader
- France became first country to ratify Climate deal
- Brexit dominates Eurozone ministers meeting
- China criticised U.S. President Barack Obama for hosting the Dalai Lama
- Strategically important Fallujah taken back from IS
- U.S. diplomats demand action against Assad
- Role of Saudi Arabia in 9/11 still unclear
- Two amendments for cut in the U.S. aid to Pakistan have been defeated
- Migrant crisis showing a light
- Panama inaugurate wider canal
- India may have to amend the SOEC clause
- End of Latin America’s longest civil war
- Bangladesh Govt says it will have no leniency against Terrorism
- EU wants transition to Britain exit should be smooth
- Brexit has put the question of Scottish independence back into fore
- European lawmakers urged Britain to begin European Union (EU) exit proceedings
- Pope spread message of peace for Turkey-Armenia
- After Brexit domestic turmoil is new challenge for Britain
- EU meet first time without Britain
- Over one-third face starvation in South Sudan
India & The World
- PM will take his first visit to African mainland
- India did not take any position on LGBT at HRC
- India wants NSG membership based on credentials and not on the basis of process
Economy
- India to press for a global pact to expedite the services trade flow
- Russia has offered Indian oil companies a stake in the second phase of Yamal LNG
- Survey says that website should be proactive with content
- U.S. Bill may block IT firms from hiring H-1B employees
- After Brexit talks between India and UK
- Centre begins stake sale in 51 firms
- The Ministry of NRE to make BIS compulsory for all solar water heaters
- Airlines not happy with passenger centric rules
- ILO's Director General concerned over the widening gender gap in Indian workforce
- India Sri Lanka wants to expedite ETCA
- India will extend concessional loans to African nations during PM's visit
- States could have worsening financials in FY17: Yes Bank
- Indian financial markets will experience limited impact from Brexit: Moody's
- Banks need $90 bn to meet Basel-III norms: Fitch
- The Centre approved an outlay of Rs.10,000 crore to provide apprenticeship
- Sensex continues its rally despite BREXIT
- Companies taking highest ammount from IPO's
- Various challenges awaits new RBI governor
- India’s biggest oil refinery to cost $30 billion
- Brexit likely to keep gold price high
- 571 budding entrepreneurs wants tax breaks for start-ups
- PMI shows good jump
- Draft regional connectivity scheme released
- SBI and associate banks merger approved by Govt.
- RBI Governor asked bankers to judiciously apply the latest loan restructuring norms
- Domestic IT spending is expected to reach $7 billion
- Regional connectivity subsidy subject to passenger loads
- The government’s draft policy for wind and solar hybrid plants
- The current account deficit (CAD) for the January-March period narrowed to $ 0.3 billion
- Portfolio managers and REITs to be made more attractive
- India and South Korea will look to boost trade and investment ties
- Fall in export is getting arrested says Govt
- Ministries to study adding labour rules in trade talks
- Tatkal window for patents set a limit on applications that it will consider
- India’s Tea output made new record
- Members of MPC and Next RBI Governor to be announced
- Despite good policy some shortcomings in civil aviation policy
- Visakhapatnam Port has been declared as the second gateway port for Nepal
- Small businesses, which contribute 45 per cent to India’s GDP, transact primarily in cash
- Govt approved extension of deadline for UDAY
- Rs. 10000 crores fund to support the start-Ups
- Govt paved the way for largest-ever spectrum auction
- Brexit will see renegotiation in BTIA
- Share market plunge after Brexit
- Indian economy could suffer a significant knock in the short term after Brexit
- Japanese messaging app company Line Corp. IPO
- Monetary policy committee notified
- No tax will be collected at source when cash component is less than Rs.2 lakh
- Centre is planning a special package for leather sector
- UDAY will not effect fiscal health
Science & Technology
- LCA Tejas to finally join Air Force
- NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular fireworks display
- Better diagnosis of disease-causing mitochondrial genetic mutations is possible
- The Indian summer monsoon rainfall is influenced by Indian ocean dipole
- NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit
- Juno spacecraft is barrelling toward Jupiter
- LIGO announced witnessing the merging of a second black hole pair
- WHO says drinking very hot coffee can cause cancer
- PSLV-C34 to take highest number of satellites
- Carbon dioxide levels surpassed 400 ppm in South Pole
- Scramjet engines now on ISRO’s agenda
- Third satellite in cartosat-2 series to be launched
- Australia finding new ways to protect Barrier reef
- NASA and ISRO are developing satellite to observe ecosystem disturbances
- Scientists have developed a new stem cell-containing bio-ink
Sports
- Sam Querrey beats Djokovic
- The shooting World Cup Finals has been allotted to India for 2017
- India beaten South Korea in Champions Trophy hockey tournament
- Indian fate out of their own hands
- India gets champions Trophy silver medal
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