Archive | September 2020

September 30, 2020

News for 30 September, 2020

Important News for Today:

Cairn seeks $1.4 bn from Centre due to losses from tax demand
[Important for: Polity, Economics & Business]
‘Credit demand from priority sectors drops’
[Important for: Polity, Economics & Business]
Indian Bank to merge 325 branches
[Important for: Polity, Economics & Business]
EU raises concerns over action against Amnesty
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
India rejects China’s ‘unilateral’ claims on LAC
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
New laws will devastate farmers, says Mamata
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
HC strikes down new NLSIU reservation law
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]

September 29, 2020

News for 29 September, 2020

Important News for Today:

RBI postpones policy meeting
[Important for: Polity, Economics & Business]
‘Petrol consumption rises, diesel at pre-COVID-19 level’
[Important for: Polity, Economics & Business]
RBI extends enhanced borrowing limit for banks till March 31
[Important for: Polity, Economics & Business]
Sell defaulter-members’ assets in 6 months: SEBI
[Important for: Polity, Economics & Business]
Loan moratorium plan to be ready by Oct. 1
[Important for: Polity, Economics & Business]
‘New codes don’t promote hire and fire’
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
UPSC reluctant to postpone civil services exams due on October 4
[Important for: UPSC]

September 28, 2020

News for 28 September, 2020

Important News for Today:

Count on the regulator
[Important for: Polity, Economics & Business]
N. Korea accuses S. Korea of intrusion to find official’s body
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
Tense LAC makes Ladakhi team call off election boycott
[Important for: Polity, Politics]
India, Japan navies match skills in northern Arabian Sea
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
Health insurance policy: This new rule will reduce your out-of-pocket expenses
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]

September 27, 2020

News for 27 September, 2020

Important News for Today:

PSU to PSU stake sale just moves funds to govt., says CAG
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
‘Temporary retention of GST cess is not diversion’
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
CAG moots probe over cess accounting dodge
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
India calls Imran Khan’s UN speech an ‘incessant rant’
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
The land of peaks, streams and disputes
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
Centre for early rollout of mother tongue as medium of instruction
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
A new mini-Moon to join Earth’s orbit; could be space junk from 1960s
[Important for: Science & Tech., Essay]
Arctic is turning green, hints towards drastic consequences of climate change
[Important for: Science & Tech., Essay]
New measurements show moon has hazardous radiation levels
[Important for: Science & Tech., Essay]
NASA portrays the fascinating images of storms on Jupiter’s North Pole
[Important for: Science & Tech., Essay]

September 27, 2020

News for 26 September, 2020

Important News for Today:

GI tag for Dalle Khursani chilli from Sikkim
[Important for: GK]
Quad discusses Indo-Pacific infrastructure and 5G
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
IRDAI lists LIC, GIC, New India as systemically important
[Important for: Polity, Economy & Business]
‘One-third of funding by AIIB has gone to India’
[Important for: Polity, Economy & Business]
‘Harley exit to impact about 2,000 jobs across dealerships’
[Important for: Polity, Economy & Business]
CFO optimism falls to record low amid COVID-19, shows survey
[Important for: Polity, Economy & Business]
China aims to make 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses a year
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
Facebook critics start rival, independent ‘oversight board’
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
U.S. proposes changes to student, media visas
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
EU leader hits out at U.K. on post-Brexit plan
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]

September 25, 2020

News for 25 September, 2020

Important News for Today

RBI releases document on UCBs’ cybersecurity
[Important for: Polity, Economy & Business]
‘Auto dealers mulling infra, manpower rationalisation’
[Important for: Polity, Economy & Business]
China cautious on G4 push for UNSC reforms
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
India, Pak. trade charges at SAARC, CICA meets
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]

September 24, 2020

News for 24 September, 2020

Important News for Today

CAG: Rafale vendors yet to confirm tech transfer
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
SC grants relief to Facebook official
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
Priceless artefacts damaged in Indian Museum renovation: CAG
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
China vows to go carbon neutral by 2060
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
U.S. House panel holds hearing on rights in Asia
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
G4 seeks time-bound reform of Security Council
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
‘India must focus on reforms as high growth is not a given’
[Important for: Polity, Economy & Business]
‘MSMEs, start-ups not for non-personal data policy’
[Important for: Polity, Economy & Business]
NASA says bus-sized asteroid to zoom past the Earth’s surface today
[Important for: Science & Tech.]

September 24, 2020

by Shahid Sarwar
in Environment Ecology, Environment Mains
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IMPORTANCE OF FOREST CONSERVATION IN INDIA

Forests are provided us wood and also some home used things. In a straight line it can be said, the forests control floods, drought, soil erosion etc. But the regions under forest are gradually decreasing.

September 23, 2020

News for 23 September, 2020

Important News for Today

Opposition parties walk out of both Houses of Parliament
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
‘Dignity of the Chair devalued’
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
Lok Sabha clears 3 labour Bills
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
LS passes J&K Official Languages Bill
[Important for: Polity, Ethics & Integrity, Essay]
Central Vista project will aid economic revival, says Centre
[Important for: Polity, Economy & Business]
TRAI recommends body to monitor net neutrality
[Important for: Polity]
‘Resolve Kashmir in line with UN Resolutions’
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
Team led by Indian scientists finds X-ray signature of boundary around black holes
[Important for: Science & Tech.]

September 22, 2020

News for 22 September, 2020

Important News for Today

8 Opposition MPs suspended from RS for ‘unruly behaviour’
[Important for: Polity, Politics]
Parliament passes Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code Bill
[Important for: Polity, Economy & Business]
‘Privatise select PSU banks’
[Important for: Polity, Economy & Business]
India, China begin 6th round of talks
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
‘World faces a surplus of multilateral challenges’
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
Support for Taiwan independence doomed to fail: China
[Important for: IP, IR, Essay]
NASA plans to carry first woman, next man to the Moon in 2024
[Important for: Science & Tech.]
Astronomers discover planet similar to the Earth, name it ‘Pi-Planet’
[Important for: Science & Tech.]