UPSC 2017: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS (Aug 20 - Aug 26)

UPSC 2017: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS (Aug 20 – Aug 26) for IAS Exam Preparation. Current Affairs revision made easy.

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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 20 Aug to 26 Aug 2017 and categorized into GS Papers I, II, III, and IV of UPSC Mains Syllabus.

 

UPSC 2017 CURRENT AFFAIRS WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Aug 20 - 26

GS PAPER I
GEOGRRAPHY
  1. Assam seeks help; plans to dredge Brahmaputra bed
SOCIAL ISSUES
  1. Understanding context of SC ruling on triple talaq: Divorce rate of Muslim women is thrice that of men

 

GS PAPER II
POLITY
  1. Top 20 per cent higher education campuses to have greater autonomy: Prakash Javadekar
  2. Union Cabinet approves new metro rail policy
  3. Foreign court can’t rule on Indian couple’s divorce plea: HC
  4. SC bats for personal liberty
  5. Yawning gaps in communication and track safety
  6. Supreme Court to deliver verdict on triple talaq today
  7.  Triple talaq: Will SC verdict end personal laws’ immunity?
  8. Agency to fund higher education set to take off
  9. Now, passport sans police verification
  10. First-past-post: House panel asks parties if election system should change
  11. Instant talaq: Unlawful, Unlawful, Unlawful
  12. United against triple talaq, divided on legal points
  13. It’s good and bad, says AIMPLB
  14. Centre will issue advisory on talaq order compliance
  15. Follow NEET for medical admission, SC tells Tamil Nadu
  16. Salary hike for college, varsity teachers
  17. SC to rule on right to privacy today 
  18. Liquor sale ban does not extend to municipal areas: SC 
  19. OBC list to be sub-categorized
  20. Privacy is a fundamental right, declares SC
  21. New Rs 200 note to be issued from today: Here is everything you need to know
  22. Govt tweaks RCS to attract more bidders
  23. Right to privacy verdict: Privacy realms span from abortion to euthanasia
  24. Target Section 377: On decriminalising gay sex
  25. SC verdict to affect ban on slaughter
  26. Panel to decide on breach of privilege by DMK MLAs
  27. Stalin urges Governor to call for floor test
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
  1. US formally initiates investigation of China’s intellectual property practices
  2. Welcome US terror tag for Hizbul Mujahideen: MEA
  3. China wants to go back to ‘1959 LAC’
  4. Rebooting India-Nepal ties
  5. Trump offers India a role in Afghanistan
  6. India to raise visa issue in trade policy meet
  7. Saudi job scheme favouring locals to hit Indians hard
  8. The Trump discontinuity
  9. Repair and recover
  10. Foreign Policy Watch: India-Nepal
  11. Foreign Policy Watch: India-China
  12. MPs fret over trade deficit with ASEAN

 

GS PAPER III
ECONOMICS
  1. Bad loan levels unacceptable, state banks need recapitalisation: Urjit Patel
  2. Use coal while economical, says CEA
  3. Tougher foreign investment norms for pharma companies likely
  4. India to raise visa issue in trade policy meet
  5. Safeguarding the interests of farmers
  6. ‘AI will have huge impact on jobs’
  7. Corporate governance: focus on SEBI
  8. The impact of caste on economic mobility in India
  9. ‘Uranium sale talks at advanced stage’
  10. Pfizer gets Indian pneumonia vaccine patent in blow to aid group, Panacea
  11. FDI jumps 37% to $10.4 billion during April-June 2017
  12. Govt puts urad, moong dal imports under restricted category
  13. New mechanism to spur PSB mergers
  14. Economy doing well on strong fundamentals, reforms: FSDC
  15. ‘RBI not for NBFCs taking deposits’
  16. Finance Ministry modifies cash management system to include post-GST changes
  17. Tax, in the bigger picture
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  1. N. Bhupathi, a frog with the face of a pig
  2. The geopolitical prowess of science and technology
  3. Cheaper plastics, 36% lighter, developed
  4. Claims on Bt cotton need to be probed: Panel
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
  1. Huge haul of painting brushes made of mongoose hair
  2. The return of the Irrawaddy dolphin
INTERNAL SECURITY
  1. T-90 battle tanks to get an upgrade
  2. Navy gets amphibious landing craft
  3. BRO gets more powers for road construction along China border
  4. Kovind dedicates Leh trip to jawans
MISCELLANEOUS
  1. No power if you go in the open, SDO tells villagers
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