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Daily Current Affairs – September 2020
The day’s news that matters for Prelims and Mains, organised by GS paper, with practice questions.
Daily Current Affairs 29.09.2020 (United Nations)
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UN and the retreat from multilateralism The UN’s capacity to face diverse challenges depends upon nations acting collectively “Prime Minister Narendra Modi focused on UN reforms and India’s contribution to UN Peacekeeping, at the 75th session of the UNGA on September 26, 2020, in New York.” AFP The United Nations commemorated its 75th anniversary on […]
Daily Current Affairs 27.09.2020 (Farm Bills: who gains and who loses)
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Farm Bills: who gains and who loses Will States and their Agricultural Produce Market Committees be impacted? What does it mean for government procurement? The story so far: Farmers have taken to the streets, protesting against three Bills on agriculture market reforms that were passed by Parliament last week and will become laws once they […]
Daily Current Affairs 26.09.2020 (SII, IUCN, International Tribunal)
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1. Vodafone wins $2 bn tax case International tribunal rules that India’s demand is in breach of ‘fair treatment’ Vodafone Group Plc said on Friday that it had won an international arbitration case against the Indian government, ending one of the most high-profile disputes in the country involving a $2 billion tax claim. An international […]
Daily Current Affairs 25.09.2020 (Will farm bill benefit farmers?)
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Will the farm bills benefit farmers? The APMC Bypass Bill leaves too much to the benevolence of private players Three farm bills — the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill (commonly referred to as the APMC Bypass Bill), and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price […]
Daily Current Affairs 23.09.2020 (E-learning in India)
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E-learning in India, a case of bad education In poorly performing educational systems as in the country, online learning may not usher in a revolution Equality of opportunity to all is one of the basic principles of our Constitution. From an educational point of view, John Dewey, American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, strongly argued […]
Daily Current Affairs 22.09.2020 (Insolveny and Bankruptcy Code Bill 2020)
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Parliament passes Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code Bill The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill, which provides that insolvency proceedings against defaulting companies will not be initiated for at least six months starting from March 25. It was earlier passed by the Rajya Sabha. Responding to the issues raised […]
Daily Current Affairs 21.09.2020 ( Agriculture Bill, FCRA, NBSA)
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1.Amid fierce protests, Rajya Sabha passes two farm Bills Govt. should send them to Select Committee for scrutiny, say Opposition parti Two of the three agriculture-related legislation piloted by the Narendra Modi government, aimed at liberalising the farm sector, were passed by the Rajya Sabha by voice vote on Sunday amid a din as the […]
Daily Current Affairs 20.09.2020 (LAC, Sputnik V, Life in Venus)
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1. Rules of engagement on the LAC What are the agreements that govern India and China’s actions? Why is the troops build-up significant? The story so far: On Tuesday, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told Parliament that China had mobilised a large number of troops and armaments along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with several […]
Daily Current affairs 18.09.2020 (UNFCCC, Gilgit Baltistan, carbon emission)
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1.Reject this inequitable climate proposal The UN Secretary General’s recent advice to India amounts to asking for its virtual de-industrialisation and stagnation The UN Secretary General António Guterres’s call for India to give up coal immediately and reduce emissions by 45% by 2030 is a call to de-industrialise the country and abandon the population to […]
Daily Current Affairs 16.09.2020 (The Aircraft (Amendment) Bill, 2020, Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020)
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1. New powers for aviation regulators Hardeep Puri says the changes were necessary for the growth of the sector The Aircraft (Amendment) Bill, 2020, which was passed by the Lok Sabha on March 17, was passed by Parliament on Tuesday after a heated discussion in Rajya Sabha over privatisation of airports. The Upper House passed […]
Daily Current Affairs 15.09.2020
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India’s great silence is the loudest sound Citizens must unceasingly demand that they be enabled to know the facts of the crises, authoritatively Ghosts of the Spanish flu (1918-1920), the four great recessions of 1958, 1966, 1973, 1980, and the Sino-Indian conflict (1962) have come together as one torment to plague India. And no one […]
Daily Current Affairs 12.09.2020 (India China)
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1. India, China agree on 5-point action plan Countering the Chinese claims, government sources here said the events of the past few months have “inevitably impacted the bilateral relationship”. In particular, India had made the point that the mobilisation of a large number of PLA troops was responsible for the “flashpoints along the LAC”. “The […]
Daily Current affairs 10.09.2020 (Bt Cotton)
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1. The twisted trajectory of Bt cotton Despite finding huge favour in India, the GM crop has only brought modest benefits Cotton has been woven and used in India for thousands of years. Cotton fabric from around 3,000 BCE has been excavated from the ruins of Mohenjo-daro, and archaeological findings in Mehrgarh, Pakistan, show that […]
Daily Current Affairs 09.09.2020 (Digital Divide, Non-Aligned Movement)
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1. Digital divide shadows post-pandemic education NSO report highlights wide disparity in access to online classes Schools across the country have now been closed for six months due to COVID-19, but this means vastly different things for different people. For the child in urban Himachal Pradesh, where Internet penetration is higher than 70%, it likely […]
Daily Current Affairs 08.09.2020 (NEP, MISSILES)
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1. Govt. intervention in education policy should be minimal: PM People’s doubts must be addressed before NEP implementation, Modi says The government’s intervention in the education policy should be “minimal”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, emphasising that the policy belonged to the whole country, rather than to any particular government in power. Mr. […]
Daily Current Affairs (Kesavananda Bharati, Moplah Riot)
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1. ‘Moplah rioters’ not freedom fighters: report ICHR member Issac seeks removal of Malabar Rebellion leaders from martyrs list A report submitted to the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) in 2016 had recommended the removal of the Wagon Tragedy victims and Malabar Rebellion leaders Ali Musliyar and Variamkunnath Ahmad Haji, and Haji’s two brothers […]
Daily Current Affairs 06.09.2020 (GST, 13th Amendment of Srilanka, SFF)
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1. What is the GST compensation due to States? The 41st meeting of the GST Council was held on August 27 with the singular agenda of finding a solution to the question of how best to ensure that the compensation payable to the States as part of the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax […]
Daily Current Affairs 04.09.2020 (Question Hour, Marriage age)
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1. A politics of avoidance that must be questioned The dropping of Question Hour, which helps the government feel the nation’s pulse, goes against the grain of democracy We, the people of India, gave ourselves a Constitution that prescribes for our democracy a parliamentary form of government in which the executive is accountable to the […]
Daily Current Affairs 03.09.2020 (Banning of Chinese Apps, Question Hour, Karamyogi scheme)
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1. Question Hour dropped in LS schedule of monsoon session In view of the pandemic, private members business also given a miss The Lok Sabha Secretariat on Wednesday officially released the schedule for the monsoon Parliament session that starts on September 14, with Question Hour being dropped. Opposition leaders, including Congress leader in the House […]
Daily Current Affairs 02.09.2020 (Internationa commission of Jurists, Democracy)
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1. A ‘new’ democracy? A systemic transformation of democracy is taking place from within to its very opposite The ‘democracy’ that a major part of our world swears by comprises free and fair, multi-party, fixed-term elections based on universal adult franchise in its ideal state. A contestant party winning the majority of votes represents the […]
Daily Current Affairs 01.09.2020 (GDP)
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1. GDP falls 23.9% in first quarter Worst contraction seen in decades The Indian economy saw its worst contraction in decades, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) shrinking by a record 23.9% in the April to June quarter in comparison to the same period last year, according to data released by the National Statistical Office on […]