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Table of Contents:

Articles:

  • Economic Survey
  • BUDGET 2016-17
  • US Presidential Election Process
  • Small Savings Schemes
  • Myanmar Democratisation
  • Selected Articles from Various Newspapers & Journals

Current Affairs:

National Issues

  • Union government will assess loss to the crop
  • Supreme Court says Child’s interest should be the focus during adoption
  • First payment under OROP sent
  • Government hopeful to bring big bang reforms
  • RSS calls for end of caste based reservation
  • Restrictions lifted from women entry to Para military forces
  • PM says India proves democracy and high growth can go together
  • UNDP says marital rapes criminalisation is commitment under SDG
  • Some good news for Indian students applying for US visa
  • Kerala secures top ranking in public affairs index
  • RSS think tank wants education and health should be prioritise
  • PM glorifies India's culture at World Cultural festival
  • Government ordered audit of telecom's after CAG report
  • Satyameva Jayate word use is not in violation of State Emblem of India Act
  • Aadhaar Bill passed by lower house
  • SC says states are not bound to provide reservation in promotion
  • Real estate bill passed
  • Radio channels to smoothen your drive
  • CBI knew about Vijay Mallya’s flight plan
  • World Culture Fest
  • Golden Jubilee of the historic concert of M.S. Subbulakshmi
  • Upper house to look after Aadhaar Bill
  • IAF short of aircraft to face wars
  • Art of living event gets go ahead after fine
  • T20 World Cup match between India-Pak shifted to Kolkata
  • The Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2016 passed in lower house
  • No labour inspection in Start-ups for three years
  • Banks seek travel ban on Vijay Mallya
  • SC says government should take every measure to provide voting right to soldiers
  • IRNSS-1F navigation satellite will be put into orbit on Mar 10
  • Civil society and government will come together on Conference on South-South Cooperation
  • Government takes action against Vijay Mallya
  • Reduced disolved oxygen kills fishes in Karnataka
  • India's first test tube baby born
  • Palaeolithic hand-axe found in north Kerala
  • Indians could face a higher risk of diabetes-induced lung ailments
  • Terror alerts across the country
  • Rotavirus vaccine will be launched through the national immunisation programme
  • Modi says go beyond women development to women led development
  • After backlash from salaried class EPF proposal likely to be taken back
  • Pak minister says Pakistan team will play only after security clearance
  • President wants parties to clear Women’s bill
  • Madras HC makes in mandatory to include National anthem singing in curriculum
  • Four States and one UT to go on poll from April 4
  • Supreme Court looking for ways to make legal profession better
  • Former Lok Sabha speaker P.A.Sangma passes away
  • Manoj Kumar will get prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award
  • PM says government is working to improve infrastructure
  • Tamil Nadu wants centre’s advice on releasing convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination
  • After increasing states share Union government is cutting the funding
  • Cabinet committee on Security cleared purchase of AWACS from Israel
  • Document for Lalit Modi’s extradition submitted
  • Supreme Court questions the validity of All-India Bar Examination
  • India would ask questions about Pak team to probe Pathankot attack
  • Rural India and Poor are at the Centre of Union Budget
  • One time four month compliance window for domestic black money holders
  • After revelations by Home Secretary Home ministry to re-look at Ishrat Jahan case
  • SC wants centre’s response to practice of triple talaq
  • Various provisions to take care of middle class: FM
  • Budget looks after manufacturing sector
  • FDI reforms will improve ease of doing business index
  • PM urges state governments to give priority to farm sector
  • PM’s Mann ki Baat focused upon students who have board exams
  • Army uniform sale banned in Punjab
  • Vinod Rai would be first chairman of Bank Board Bureau
  • Eleven years after NDMA Centre looks after disaster victims
  • PM says govt blocked all routes to corruption
  • Parliamentary standing committee on defence wants higher allocation to defence
  • Govt. may leverage assets under LIC, EPFO
  • Survey calls for reforms and welfare schemes
  • President called for revision of Indian penal code
  • Survey says private sector help necessary to tackle climate change
  • Supreme Court asks centre to ban Child porn
  • Suresh Prabhu presented customer oriented budget
  • NGT wants real estate developers to be punished for the dust
  • UB group chairman Vijay Mallya resigned
  • Electronic tourist visa extended to 37 more countries
  • Supreme Court says agitations can't hold the nation to ransom
  • Karnataka High court lifted the stay on enforcement of bigger pictorial warnings
  • Astronaut Sunita Williams will visit India on a two day visit
  • JNU students accused of anti-national slogan’s surrendered
  • Presidents asks for debate with out disruption
  • Amnesty International says civil liberties in India are not up to International standard
  • President’s address to Joint sitting of Houses focuses on FasalBeema Yojana
  • Defence minister directed armed forces for identification of contemporary relevance projects
  • Jat protest turns ugly
  • Three of the finest soldiers died in Kashmir
  • Supreme Court refuses to topple Arunachal government
  • Global banking giants HSBC gets tax evasion notice
  • Govt decided to give other backward class status to Jats
  • Integrated Child Health Record will map child’s health records digital
  • Rurban mission launched by PM
  • Unemployment rate stable in rural areas
  • JAT protest paralyses Haryana
  • Referendum in Britain for European Union membership
  • Matribhasha Diwas to be observed on March 3 by Universities and colleges
  • Noble laureate Satyarthi wants more budgetary allocation to Children
  • Kalikho Pul sworn in as Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
  • India welcomes Pakistan move to file case for Pathankot attack
  • BCCI to point out difficulties in implementing Lodha committee recommendations
  • Successful hotbed test of cryogenic engine makes ISRO upbeat
  • SC declined to hear the bail plea of Kanhaiya Kumar
  • Haryana government gave assurance about Jat reservation
  • After JNUSU president getting threats in Patiala house court SC to hear his bail application
  • Pak anti-terrorism court wants 24 Indian eyewitnesses statement to be recorded
  • Experts wants India to learn from China for pollution control
  • Li-Fi could make use of LED bulb for providing Internet
  • Toxicity testing of drug in the Indian population will start in India by month end
  • Defence Minister says OROP may also be given to military personnel retiring Prematurely
  • Vice-Chancellors of central universities accept Tricolour will increase nationalism
  • Govt set to revoke President’s rule in Arunachal Pradesh
  • Cabinet gives in principle approval to gravitational wave detector
  • By year end at least one fighter aircraft from Private sector
  • India and Nepal begin to repair strained ties
  • Vodafone gets tax notice
  • Supreme Court directed Central Bank to give list of defaulter companies
  • Employees provident fund organisation recommends interest rate of 8.8 percent
  • Aamir likely to become brand ambassador of Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan
  • After HC Judge stays his transfer, Supreme Court freezes his functions
  • Supreme Court wants Parliament to decide the legality of passive euthanasia
  • Mysuru gets top position in Swachh Bharat Ranking
  • The oldest operational aircraft carrier INS Viraat to be decommissioned
  • Supreme Court dismisses plea for bringing pending cases under RTI

International Issues

  • Peace talks for Syria started
  • Myanmar will get new President today
  • Indian born business man Rajat Gupta released after two years
  • US president wants mobile data to accessible to government
  • UN to probe South Sudan attack
  • Senator's objection to F-16 deal did not find success
  • Syu Kyi's aide Htin Kyaw moves closer to become first civilian leader in Myanmar
  • Scientists believe Britain’s exit from EU will be a disaster to science
  • Think tank believes SAARC should include China as well
  • Sri Lankan Parliament adopted resolution to convert itself into a Constitutional Assembly
  • Plan to reduce refugee crisis tentatively agreed
  • China warns of action in Korean region
  • International Women's day gift by Air-India
  • Ray Tomlinson, credited with inventing e-mail died
  • Peace talks of syria will start in March 14
  • Presidential nomination race still open
  • 1.26 million People seek EU asylum in past year
  • Taliban reject peace talks with govt.
  • After Border and maritime issue resolution Bangladesh wants Teesta issue resolved
  • China says that US responsible for South China Sea problems
  • Zika virus kills cells that form key brain tissue
  • India filled complaint in WTO over via fee issue
  • Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
  • Lodha panel recommenda

India & The World

  • BSF and BGB of Bangladesh conducted first ever joint exercise in Sundarbans
  • PM Modi’s visit to US will revive the India-U.S. tie Security concerns increases on Arabian sea
  • Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai wants India to be part of Taliban talks
  • Defence Minister says no joint patrol with US right now
  • India and China to build connectivity
  • Anti-tank Guided missiles
  • Another terrorist attack in Jalalabad consulate
  • First Raisina Dialogue started in New Delhi
  • Turmoil in Maldives is stalling PM Modi’s visit
  • India’s plan of acquiring aircraft from Japan facing problems
  • India will approach UN to include Masood in globally designed terrorists
  • Principle of sovereign equality should guide the India-Nepal relations, said Oli
  • India, Nepal sign seven accords
  • Nepal’s PM on visit to India
  • EU-India summit to be held after the gap of four years
  • Counter terrorism operation needs to be viewed with flexibility

Economy

  • WPI is in negative again
  • Cairn India hopeful over recent changes in the natural gas sector
  • Government devised three part strategy for stressed loans
  • SEBI debarred over 1000 entities for tax evasion
  • India Ratings and Research revised its outlook for telecommunications services
  • Government planning to provide PF to contractual labours as well
  • Central Bank Governor says exchange rate is at right place
  • IIP data again increases call for rate cut
  • Depending upon monsoon and reform growth rate could be close to 8 % in 2016-17
  • New gas pricing formula approved by cabinet
  • In order to boost economy ECB cuts rate
  • Ministry of Shipping expects to sign major pacts in summit
  • Give it Up campaign a major success
  • Government raises fund limits to seed start-ups
  • Banks looking to change strategy to keep talented employees
  • RBI says banking infrastructure is not good enough
  • Government identifying banks for consolidation
  • Finance minister says infrastructure projects will not be delayed in the future
  • Ahead of Aadhaar Bill’s passage, Govt. okays housing subsidy for workers
  • Country heading more towards a cashless economy
  • China continues its effort to change to a self-sustaining economy based on consumption
  • Government looking into the proposal of consolidating public sector banks
  • Application window for the new Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) scheme will be March 8-14
  • Tax exemptions for capital gains investment in venture capital
  • Cell formed to study subsidies to industry
  • Outrage on taxing EPF
  • EPF tax would cost dearly to low income workers
  • Aadhaar Bill introduced in Lok Sabha
  • MAT will not be possible until all corporate tax exemptions are rolled back
  • Government will take final call on EPF tax
  • Corporate wants Taxation of incomes from corporate dividends to be reviewed
  • Faced by backlash from salaried class government to look into EPF tax
  • RBI unlocked additional capital to Indian banks
  • Agriculture minister believes budget will help in getting 4 percent in agriculture
  • Controller General of accounts questioned the new accounting method
  • NDB’s president says Bank is an assertion of global south
  • Survey says More scrutiny on FDI is needed
  • G-20 asks to look for policies of growth other than ultra low interest rates
  • Survey says only 5.5% pay taxes
  • India is getting more and more technological start ups
  • Survey looking for faster labour reforms
  • Indian industry welcomes railway budget
  • Railway budget lays emphasis on PPP projects
  • Hurun Global Rich List adds 27 new Indian billionaires
  • Standing committee on finance recommends to make names of wilful defaulters public
  • Union cabinet to promote cashless transactions
  • Policy on strategic sale of state-owned companies soon
  • WTO compliant National Intellectual Property Rights policy in fortnight
  • FII investment in public sector banks may increase to 49 percent
  • Government wants to bring growth reforms through budget
  • Government will divest five percent of its stake in NTPC
  • Commerce Ministry is assessing the impact of China
  • Adequacy of foreign exchange reserves and currency turmoil
  • XIV finance commission members wants Independent council for budget
  • Christine Lagarde says spillovers are necessary for G20
  • Banks require holistic cure
  • Historically low solar tariffs could dent operating margins
  • Competitive prices and shorter shipping distances makes easier to import from OPEC
  • Reliance will start oil lifting from Iran
  • Ministry moots National Social Security Authority
  • India’s most affordable smartphone will cost 251 rupees
  • Department of Pharmaceuticals are expected to come up with bulk drug policy
  • New BOT annuity model to be used by Indian Railways
  • RBI governor says there is no need for currency devaluation
  • National capital goods policy introduced
  • Exports shrink for 14th straight month in January

Science & Technology

  • The global surface temperatures in February were 1.35 degree Celsius warmer
  • New findings will reduce power consumption by computers’
  • Finally, a bacterium that degrades polluting plastics identified
  • IRNSS-1F placed in orbit
  • Artificial fingertip for texture
  • Evidence of element, curium, related to solar system formation found
  • Indian Institute of Science have developed a eco-friendly lamp
  • Critically endangered
  • Great Indian Bustard seen on the banks of Tungabhadra
  • Powerful radio waves from an enigmatic source to Earth
  • Experiment proves acidification diminishes the coral-reef growth
  • Climate-driven reduction in sea-level rise

Sports

  • Vijender singh beats Hungary’s Alexander Horwath
  • Rest of India pulled off stunning chase
  • BCCI says despite problems India-Pak match will happen
  • India beat Bangladesh in Asia cup final
  • Patna pirates are the winner of Pro Kabaddi league
  • Martin Crowe passes away
  • Asia cup final would be between India and Bangladesh
  • Gianni Infantino becomes FIFA chief
  • BrendomMcCullum quit international cricket
  • South Asian games ended with full flare
  • India going firm in South Asian Games

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