Important News (30-01-2014)

The Hindu

National:

1. A protest before PM pays
2. Kiran challenges Centre on T-Bill
3. Delhi Govt. decides to form SIT to look into 1984 riots
4. Giving the AAP a fair chance
5. Centre to file review plea on death penalty commutations
6. Congress list of nominees for Upper House causes a stir
7. Now, a Rs. 70-crore UPA ad blitz in flashback mode
8. Furore over guidelines on privileges to MPs at airports
9. India’s illiterate population largest in the world, says UNESCO report

Current Affairs MCQ

International:

1. Master of the interim deal
2. Russia-West tussle continues, as Ukraine grapples with crisis
3. Snowden nominated for Nobel
4. Tunisia’s new government headed by Jomaa sworn in
5. Nawaz forms panel for talks with Taliban
6. Bangladesh parliament begins session

India & The World:

1. Indian hackers deface Pakistani websites
2. India, Sri Lanka discuss fishermen, resettlement

Business News:

1. Uniform tax rate for foreign portfolio investors
2. Rate hike not in light of global contagion: Rajan
3. Google is best company to work for: Fortune

S&T, Environment, Defence :

1. Delhi lags behind Beijing in pollution control: CSE
2. When caring less may actually help
3. ‘Talwar ran over fishing boat during exercise’
4. Antioxidant supplements can worsen lung cancer
5. Now, reversing adult cells to stem cells becomes easy
6. ‘Water-jet’ printer invented
7. The Solar System’s dynamic start
8. The megatons to megawatts programme

Sports:

1. White fires in Australia’s victory
2. Indian women win title
3. Pooja Ghatkar on target again
4. Sehwag and Yuvraj in highest base price bracket

Others:

1. No spare land for relocation of Millennium Bus Depot: DDA tells High Court
2. Lok Pal selection panel to meet next week
3. Call for relook into change in UPSC pattern
4. Green film festival kicks off today at IGNCA lawns
5. Ajoy Misra to head Tata Global

Editorials & Articles:

1. The agony of awaiting death
2. A surprise from the RBI
3. New scourge in Assam

17-05-2013

The Hindu

National:

• No News

International:

1. China approves environment assessment of ‘tallest dam’
2. U.N. for political transition in Syria
3. Working hard on border tensions, says China
4. WalMart opts out of Bangladesh safety agreement

Current Affairs MCQ

India & The World:

• No News

Business News:

1. China pledges to fix trade deficit issue with India

S&T, Environment, Defence:

• No News

Sports:

1. Sreesanth puts IPL in a spot, fans in a fix
2. Kings XI Punjab stays in the hunt with exciting win
3. End it like Beckham!
4. Ministry calls for deterrent punishment
5. Spot-fixing’s foreign links to be probed

Others:

1. 1,000-year-old Chola-era temple facing threat of demolition

Editorials & Articles:

1. Indian cricket’s credibility crisis
2. Looking beyond gold
3. Unshrinking the kids
4. Sharing the burden of going green
5. Wanted, an Afghan statesman
6. In Sri Lanka, a new divide brings back old fears

02-04-2013

The Hindu

National:

1. Landmark verdict gives big boost to cancer patients
2. Artful claims can’t decide patent law: court

Current Affairs MCQ

International:

1. Warm reception to Myanmar’s private dailies

India & The World:

1. NIA asked to probe Italian marines case
2. It’s time for free trade pact with Russia, says India

Business News:

• No News

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. A facelift through 3D printing technology

Sports:

• No News

Others:

1. The colour of colonial rule
2. Goodness, gracious and nice
3. Dreaming with eyes wide open
4. New thinking by an old hand
5. END of R & D
6. Landmark verdict, say pharma bodies
7. Right to affordable drugs upheld: activists
8. We realised we are all citizens of the universe, says Sunita Williams

Editorials & Articles:

1. A just order
2. The silent war over education reforms
3. One river, two countries, too many dams

26-03-2013

The Hindu

National:

1. EC says lack of qualification not tantamount to disqualification

Current Affairs MCQ

International:

1. U.S. hands Bagram prison over to Afghans
2. ‘China, Pakistan signed deal on 1,000 MW reactor’

India & The World:

1. New BRICS bank to cater to developing nations

Business News:

1. ‘Spectrum can’t be a tool to raise short-term revenue’
2. Interest rates on PPF, small savings cut by 10 basis points
3. India among world’s top 20 real estate investment markets

S&T, Environment, Defence:

• No News

Sports:

• No News

Other:

Editorials & Articles:

1. Wake-up call for the Army
2. Pains of a bailout
3. BRICS and mortar for India’s global role

27-03-2013

The Hindu

National:

1. Cashless treatment for road accident victims
2. BRICS may deliberate longer before setting up bank

Current Affairs MCQ

International:

1. Syrian rebels take seat at Arab meet
2. Uneasy calm in riot-hit Myanmar town

India & The World:

1. Nuclear cooperation, key to multiple projects: Kazakhstan

Business News:

1. Takeover norms tightened

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. ‘Black carbon from South Asia melting Tibetan glaciers’

Sports:

1. Third spot for India

Others:

Editorials & Articles:

1. Chauvinism at its worst
2. Obama’s back-seat drivers
3. The past & present of Indian environmentalism
4. Tankers and the economy of thirst
5. India and America, batting together in Asia

26-01-2013

The Hindu

National:

1. Padma Vibhushan for Yash Pal, Roddam
2. The great number fetish
3. NAC to discuss report on market integration of small, marginal farmers
4. Pranab asks nation to reset moral compass
5. Padma Awards for Jaspal Bhatti, Gayatri Spivak, Sridevi
6. Real Estate Bill may not be hard on builders after all

International:

• In a Chicago courtroom, justice tinged with betrayal
• Israel’s emerging political superstar faces a minefield
• U.S. sanctions have caused shortage of drugs in Iran: Lancet

India & The World:

1. ‘No’ to 2 Pak. diplomats to attend Jaipur lit fest
2. India still hopeful of getting Rana extradited, says Khurshid

Sports:

1. McGrath at the MRF Pace Foundation
2. Dharamshala set to be latest ODI host

Others:

1. Material dictates
2. Melinda effusive on India’s conquest of polio

Editorials & Articles:

1. India’s benign constitutional revolution
2. A manifesto for change
3. Recycle grey water

27-01-2013

The Hindu

National:

1. Day of culture wars for the republic
2. Storm over Ashis Nandy’s remarks at LitFest
3. ‘The government has to choose between politics and the Constitution’
4. Military might, cultural diversity showcased
5. AIDS... and the unanswered questions
6. Injectable vaccine may hold the key
7. Differential treatment in fixing pension unfair, rules SC

International:

1. An Assange coup again as WikiLeaks founder gets hold of film script on him
2. Football violence verdict sparks riot in Egypt

India & The World:

1. Why Headley will be freed before he’s 80
2. A Harvard vigil for Indo-Pak. peace

Business News:

1. SBI to open second branch in China

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. Farmers of the forests

Sports:

1. Test series with Oz will impact future: Dravid
2. Saurashtra skittled out cheaply
3. Smith’s century steers SA to win
4. Sri Lanka coasts to five-wicket win over Australia
5. Djokovic, Murray to renew an old rivalry
6. Azarenka defends her crown beating a hobbled Li

Others:

1. Mining matters
2. Vishwaroopam should not have been banned: writers
3. ‘Bangladeshi literature under extremist threat’
4. Jeet Thayil wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature