WEEKLY UPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS 2017 (Apr 23 - Apr 29)

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The segment provides most important current events from 23 April to 29 April 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.

April 29

  • Flying to become paperless soon
  • Ganga receives first legal notice after getting human status
  • India, Cyprus call for decisive action against hosts of ‘violence factories’
  • Turkey seeks defence ties with India
  • AIDS control programme running blind without enough testing kits
  • Money laundering may be made criminal offence
  • Air pollution can up risk of heart attack
  • A safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries

April 28

  • Himalayan rocks may up flood risk, finds study
  • No barrier to naming Lokpal: SC
  • Lokpal panel: CJI among equals
  • Judicial performance index mooted
  • Prescribing generics won’t help work unless pharmacists regulated, say activists
  • India, Sri Lanka sign energy pact
  • Bhutan backs out of motor vehicle pact
  • PM launches low-cost regional flights
  • Now, withdraw PF savings with a self-declared form to pay medical bills
  • Direct tax base to soar in 3 yrs
  • ‘Revival of fertiliser plants can make India an exporter’
  • Flexible pension for informal staff mooted
  • Italy sees red-tape, taxes as hurdles
  • Vinegar to the rescue of Great Barrier Reef?
  • All-women force to take on stone pelters

April 27

  • ‘Religious freedom deteriorating in India’
  • Aadhaar-PAN linkage meant to plug tax leaks, says SC
  • SC seeks law to regulate NGO funds
  • Doctors wary as Centre push for generic drugs
  • Eyeing West Pacific, China launches first domestically-made aircraft carrier
  • Farm incomes not to be taxed, says Jaitley
  • Reorient social sector subsidies: NITI Aayog
  • SEBI to grant one licence to brokers, clearing members
  • A shrinking home for endemic birds
  • Finally, NASA’s super balloon lifts off to collect near space data
  • Scientists create ‘artificial womb’ that could save premature babies’ lives
  • ‘Govt. school teachers often away on duty’

April 26

  • Hindi being ‘promoted’ as per Act: Rijiju
  • SC for broad anti-torture legislation
  • Moderation system to end
  • Committed to grant ST status of 6 ethnic communities in Assam
  • Ghana, Kenya and Malawi to pilot GSK malaria vaccine from 2018
  • Three decades of mistrust
  • China wants government-level talks on Kolkata-Kunming trade corridor
  • Merging PSU banks will help: RBI’s Patel
  • Tax farm income above a threshold: NITI Aayog
  • Sukma Maoist attack: ‘Boots on the ground alone won’t help’
  • Surgical strikes here to stay

April 25

  • Corruption, the top pain: poll
  • Tale of two sections: On vexatious criminal prosecution
  • NITI to present new plan approach
  • SEBI lines up reforms to check flow of black money
  • Rebooting PSBs
  • From plate to plough: The faraway fields
  • Army plans to raise inclusiveness 

April 24

  • Step up spending on infra, PM tells States
  • Now, Australia wants a LEMOA
  • Beijing’s Belt-Road plan overshadows BCIM meet
  • Centre mulls nodal body for transport
  • Delay in quota reforms to erode IMF’s credibility, says Jaitley
  • 3D-printing conquers glass
  • CBI goes after shell companies Starts filing cases of financial fraud
  • Indian Railways draft policy aims at boosting tourism
  • Carpool for cleaner air 

April 23

  • NITI Aayog offers a chance to learn: PM
  • CJI pitches for zero govt. role in arbitration process
  • A step forward for Indo-Bangla ties
  • New hepatitis figures show infection spike
  • New cause of high BP discovered
  • Kerala’s high ranges sit on a powder keg Environmental disaster has been unfolding in the State’s highlands
  • NITI to present new plan approach
  • India to help global defence firms to set up units: Jaitley
  • IISc team unravels how vitamin C helps kill bacteria
  • Liver carcinogen traced to sunflower seeds
  • More aerosol in atmosphere results in heavier rainfall
  • IIT Bombay: Bird’s eye view and quantum biology

 

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