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Daily Current Affairs – 8 August 2020
The day’s news that matters for Prelims and Mains, organised by GS paper, with practice questions.
Daily Current Affairs 07.08.2020 (RBI, Air India, Academic Research)
Current Affairs
1. RBI keeps key policy rates unchanged It allows banks to restructure corporate, individual loans The Reserve Bank of India kept its powder dry in the third review of the monetary policy since the COVID-19 pandemic spread in the country, leaving key policy rates unchanged in the face of rising inflation pressures but asserted that […]
Daily Current Affairs 06.08.2020 (Constitution Bench, Secularism)
Current Affairs
1.Secular fundamentalism in a time of ‘bhoomi pujan’ The Congress would be better advised to fight for its own principled ‘Idea of a secular India’, whatever the electoral cost I joined the Congress party when Rajiv Gandhi was Prime Minister. The party then was in steep decline. As expected, he was defeated. My political life […]
Daily Current Affairs 05.08.2020 (H1B Visa, Consumer Protection Act,2019)
Current Affairs
1. Trump bars H-1B visa holders from federal jobs ‘Will not tolerate firing of Americans for cheap foreign labour’ President Donald Trump has signed an executive order preventing federal agencies from contracting or subcontracting foreign workers — mainly those on H-1B visas. The move comes over a month after the Trump administration on June 23 […]