UPSC 2017: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS (Jul 02 - JUL 08)

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The segment provides most important current events from 02 July to 08 July 2017. Below listed are the events in the news that are categorized into GS Papers I. II, III, and IV of UPSC Mains Syllabus, which will help the candidates to revise and remember the important news and events for UPSC Current Affairs.

 

UPSC 2017 CURRENT AFFAIRS WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS JULY 02 - 08

 

GS PAPER I
HISTORY
  1. Thirsty Vijayapura reaches into ancient bawadis 21 huge open wells, built around 500 years ago,are filling up after desilting and providing a vital source of water for the arid city
GEOGRAPHY
  1. Antarctica’s ice-free islands set to grow
  2. Sunderbans mangrove cover at risk

 

GS PAPER II
SOCIAL ISSUES
  1. Rural India starts to go nuclear, urban families grow in shrinking space
POLITY
  1. Minister calls for quota in cricket team
  2. SC allows abortion of ailing foetus
  3. SC open to liquor sale on city highways
  4. Allow people with genuine reasons to deposit banned notes: SC to govt
  5. Centre may partially lift AFSPA
  6. ‘Make registration of marriages compulsory
  7. Selection of ECs must be transparent, SC tells Centre
  8. Why not use VVPAT units for Gujarat polls, SC asks EC
  9. Jobs secured with fake caste claim invalid: SC
  10. Constitutional status for backward classes panel?
  11. No-detention policy to go from 2018
  12. CJI, governors should come under RTI: SC
  13. PETA moves SC to quash T.N.’s amended jallikattu law
  14. SC stays HC verdict on Ganga status
  15. Call for law to end mob killings
  16. India’s tough anti-hijacking law comes into force
  17. Don’t undermine our powers, southern State backward classes commission chiefs tell Centre
  18. 63% of school dropouts in Karnataka in 11 to 13 age group: Survey
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
  1. Why Bhutan is special to India
  2. Xi draws ‘red line’ in Hong Kong
  3. Pakistan denies consular access to Jadhav yet again Says equating him with other prisoners is ‘travesty of logic’
  4. On eve of PM’s tour, Palestine hopes to keep India ties firm Modi will be in Tel Aviv & Jerusalem from July 4; will not travel to Palestinian side
  5. Step back Sustained tension at the Bhutan tri-junction suits neither China nor India
  6. Israel backs India’s fight on terror
  7. Not Jerusalem, Tel Aviv to remain Indian Embassy’s location
  8. Moving beyond security ties
  9. Incursions by PLA rose in 2017
  10. Vietnam for greater Indian role in SE Asia
  11. North Korea claims it tested intercontinental missile
  12. India, Israel to set up $40 mn research fund
  13. Pak successfully test fires short-range ballistic missile Nasr
  14. Signs of a Persian gulf
  15. Indian, Israeli defence firms join hands
  16. Modi, Xi will not hold talks at G-20 summit
  17. Modi targets Pakistan at G20
HEALTH ISSUES
  1. Central labs moot ‘human first’ approach to test malaria vaccine

 

GS PAPER III
ECONOMICS
  1. Indians’ money in Swiss banks hit record low at Rs. 4,500 crore
  2. BIZ-GDP-ANANT
  3. One lakh suspect firms deregistered
  4. GST positive for India’s credit profile: Moody’s ‘To support higher government revenue through improved tax compliance’
  5. Steel sector bullish on GST, exporters worry Reactions abound on impact of tax
  6. ADB, Centre ink pact for road revamp
  7. India in 88th place in money hoarded in Swiss banks
  8. Integration of oil & gas majors is best avoided
  9. Two commodity exchanges merge
  10. Tap GST for jobs data: PM-appointed panel
  11. UDAY covers 97% of discom debt: Centre
  12. MRP to be sole price decider from Jan. 1
  13. Loan waivers: State government borrowings may jump to 5.30 lakh Cr
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
  1. Aerosols ‘shrinking’ India’s monsoon Greenhouse gases cause concern, but scientists are more worried about particulates
  2. Nine more bird, biodiversity areas in Kerala
  3. Of plant species few and far between
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  1. New material uses sunlight to detoxify water
  2. The pursuit of app-iness
  3. Cheaper, indigenous TB test enters final validation phase
  4. Drug-resistant TB higher among children than expected: report
  5. Should we grow GM crops?
INTERNAL SECURITY
  1. We can strike Indian targets anywhere, any time: Hizb chief Syed Salahuddin

 

IAS General Studies Notes Links
Tripitakas Bpsc Previous Year Question
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