UPSC 2017: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS (Jul 30 - Aug 05)

UPSC 2017: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS (Jul 23 – JUL 29)

7 Minutes Read: Revision of Current Affairs made easy!

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 30 July to 05 Aug 2017 and categorized into GS Papers I, II, III, and IV of UPSC Mains Syllabus.

 

UPSC 2017 CURRENT AFFAIRS WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS AUG 06 - 12

 

GS PAPER II
POLITY
  1. Supreme Court stays Election Commission’s order on MP minister Narottam Mishra
  2. Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification will not affect CPEC: China
  3. Regulator turns up heat on erring CAs
  4. Will decide in a month-and-a-half on commercial release of GM mustard crop, Centre tells SC
  5. SC warns of challenge to GM mustard roll out
  6. Hard act
  7. Nod for Jharkhand religious Bill
  8. Understanding the new DNA tech Bill: All your questions answered
  9. Don’t shoot the messenger
  10. Government clears proxy vote move for NRIs
  11. Rajya Sabha passes RTE amendments
  12. How to curb ‘invisible money’
  13. Govt moves to check benami, Aadhaar to be made must for property deals
  14. NOTA option to stay in Rajya Sabha polls
  15. NOTA’s impact will be like abstention
  16. It’s time to enact an anti-lynching law
  17. Aadhaar will be required for death certificates
  18. Cattle trade ban rules were not placed before Parliament
  19. Ordinance to give quota in promotions for SC/ST staff likely
  20. Restoring Parliament’s primacy
  21. SC for centralised system to select judicial officers
  22. New Bill to allow States to drop no-detention policy
  23. A half-done reform: On LPG subsidy
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
  1. US lawmakers seek increased role for India in Afghanistan
  2. India rejects OIC move on vigilantism
  3. Uncertainty ahead: On Pakistan political crisis
  4. Indian government cuts down on US lobbying to lowest in 7 years

    Somalia signs pact on convicts

  5. 8.8 million blind in India in 2015, says study in Lancet
HEALTH ISSUES
  1. Expert panel to review dengue clinical norms

 

GS PAPER III
ECONOMICS
  1. NPCI gets RBI nod to operate Bharat Bill Payment System
  2. Digital trade games
  3. ‘Scheme for banks not applied as envisaged’
  4. India among top nations with potential for digital payments’: Digital Evolution Index
  5. New gold bond scheme may draw more investors
  6. Reserve Bank may cut rate at policy review meet
  7. RBI changes norms for appointment of auditors
  8. Core sector growth slows to 0.4% in June
  9. What is NHB Residex?
  10. From plate to plough: Everybody loves a good crop
  11. Niti Aayog’s Appraisal of the Twelfth Five Year Plan: Low manufacturing growth holds back job creation
  12. Farmer suicides in India may be linked to climate change, says study
  13. Space for a cut: On RBI repo rate cut
  14. Unhappy with MCLR, RBI may link rates to market determined benchmarks
  15. The difficult economics of the Indian farmer
  16. Post GST Launch: Manufacturing PMI slumps to the lowest since 2009
  17. Centre mulls changing minimum wages formula
  18. What is the impact of floods on India’s GDP?
  19. Studying the climate of farm suicides
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
  1. A Sunderbans denizen staves off extinction
  2. Petrol, diesel cars face ban in U.K.
  3. 5 chemicals banned in firecrackers
  4. 1. Heat in South Asia could exceed survivable levels by 2100, says study
  5. 2. Water conservation scheme a big success
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  1. Glow-in-the-dark shark discovered in the Pacific
  2. China produces gas from ‘flammable ice’ under South China Sea
  3. Turmeric can be used to fight cancer in children, find U.S. scientists
  4. In a scientific first, disease gene ‘edited’ in human embryos
  5. 1. ISRO to rely on CSIR for keeping satellite clocks accurate
INTERNAL SECURITY
  1. Muntra, country’s first unmanned tank, rolls out from the Chennai lab
  2. CAG spots weaknesses in missile defence system
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
  1. Washed out: On the floods in eastern and western India
MISCELLENEOUS
  1. It’s Sankalp Parva on August 15: PM

 

IAS General Studies Notes Links
Indian History Timeline Bengal Gazette
India Japan Anglo Mysore War
Bpsc Previous Year Question Tea Board Of India
Undp Headquarters Article 143
First Round Table Conference What Was The Immediate Cause Of The Revolt Of 1857

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