UPSC 2017: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS (Jul 09 - JUL 15)

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The segment provides most important current events from 09 July to 15 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 09 - 15

 

GS PAPER I

ART AND CULTURE
  1. Kerala boat races off to colourful start
  2. Ahmedabad gets world heritage tag
  3. India to celebrate Falun Gong

 

GS PAPER II

POLITY
  1. Panel calls for ‘light regulation’ of NGOs
  2. Coming: direct to home coaching for students, IIT aspirants
  3. Committee formed to study legalities for separate State flag
  4. Do what you feel is good for your faith and let others do the same: Chief Justice of India
  5. SC stays cattle sale rules across nation
  6. Ministry forms panel for cruise tourism
  7. Minimum qualifications for coop. societies’ polls
  8. Two out of three people lodged in prisons are undertrials: Amnesty
  9. Arunachal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands get exemption from SC highway liquor ban
  10. Tribunal prohibits dumping of waste near Ganga banks 
  11. From this year, Kannada is compulsory in all schools
  12. President’s nod for Bill against social boycott
  13. SC orders CBI probe into Manipur extra-judicial killings 
SOCIAL ISSUES
  1. Rural India starts to go nuclear, urban families grow in shrinking space
  2. Enrolment of Muslims in Bengal varsities abysmally low, says survey 
HEALTH ISSUES
  1. Easier access to H1N1 medicines raises fears of drug resistance Doctors feel misuse will lead to a situation of anti-viral medications turning ineffective
  2. US panel endorses new gene-altering cancer treatment 
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
  1. PMO, NSA tracking impact of Chinese FDI in South Asia
  2. 122 nations adopt first treaty banning nuclear weapons
  3. G20 hails India’s labour reforms, start-up policy Hamburg Action Plan praises efforts to boost innovation
  4. Iraq Prime Minister declares victory in ‘liberated’
  5. U.S. may tighten rules for foreign students
  6. India-China trade talks deadlocked 
  7. China sends PLA unit to man overseas base 
  8. Nod for Bangladesh JIN pact 
  9. EU, India set up fund for investments
  10. Nepal to soon get internet services from China, India’s monopoly to end: Report

 

GS PAPER III

ECONOMICS
  1. IMF, World Bank and WTO call for removing trade barriers to boost growth
  2. Two large groups bid to supply equipment for Chabahar port India keen to expedite work on the strategic facility in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan
  3. Process eased for exporters who have not paid IGST Exports had come to a halt in the absence of clarity
  4. 5 States, a UT sign pact with Centre on e-Marketplace 
  5. Sugar import duty increased to 50% to support domestic prices 
  6. Railways to promote small entrepreneurs in big way
  7. Bitcoin trade may come under SEBI
  8. PM’s task force recommends scrapping 5-yearly job survey
  9. APG meet on money laundering in Colombo
  10. WPI inflation slows to 11-month low of 0.9% in June 
  11. Web nod soon for dry ports, cargo stations 
  12. USIBC plans to break free from Chamber 
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
  4. Sensor network to map and predict pollution, effluents in Godavari 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  1. Cocoa: A tonic for cognition and memory retention 
  2. Cloud seeding: expensive, but no guarantees 
  3. Using AI to achieve development goals
  4. Curcumin nanoparticles found to shorten TB treatment time
  5. Saraswati, a supercluster of galaxies
  6. When DNA is the new hard drive 
INTERNAL SECURITY
  1. Army in for the long haul in Dokalam
  2. Cyberattack link to glitches in RJio, NSE under probe
  3. Ships and planes arrive, it’s days of war games
  4. Incentivising financial sector cybersecurity 
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
  1. Concrete may help curb air pollution
  2. Earth facing sixth mass extinction
  3. Four ways to shrink your carbon footprint

 

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