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2 Lecture 1- Quote 2- Editorials 3- Current Affair Q 4- Subjective Q 5- Vocabulary 6- Maps Practice 7- Capital & Currency 8-News Analysis 9-Revision

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4 Delhi Edition of The Hindu

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6 Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train No justification on the grounds of economic viability or public service Handful of high-income countries Japan s pioneering Shinkansen Commercial centres, 50% of Japan s population China is, of course, an exception Internal debt of over $300 billion. Is India ready for such an eventuality? Vision 2020 document presented by former Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee to Parliament also speaks of HSR. Manmohan Singh s visit to Japan Safety first- Highest priority to safety China which has developed a network of 22,000 km of HSR over the past 15 years. It plans to expand it 30,000 km by Comments such as bullet trains like demonetisation will kill everything Unlike air travel, which is expensive and less energy-efficient, bullet trains will make the stations en route hubs for economic and industrial growth. The growth of civilisation is linked intimately with growth in speed or mobility. Invention of the wheel, domestication of the horse, and harnessing of steam power for locomotion are all intricate links of the same chain. Railways emerged- Industrial Revolution HSR- become a status symbol for nations China- world s largest HSR network. But, HSR- highly capitalintensive project. India just doesn t have the technology $14 billion at 0.1% interest with a payout time of 50 years and a moratorium of 15 years is the best that India has ever got

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9 The rhythm(त ल) of life Medicine Nobel touches on our curiosity about an inner clock and links to nature 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine was won for their work in discovering mechanisms controlling internal clocks that keep time in all living organisms. Rhythm which tells us when it is time to eat and sleep, or wake up even when we have no bedside alarm Jet lag, when people travel across different time zones challenging the internal biological clock Smartphone, tablet, computer and TV screens that may disrupt the circadian rhythm because of the light they emit is being studied extensively. Key to future breakthroughs in the treatment of various diseases

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11 Tri-service integration or consolidation? Recent comments from the armed forces raise disturbing questions While India aspires to jointmanship among the three services Army s supremacy?- Army Chief General Bipin Rawat- Ensure territorial integrity of nation Permanent Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CoSC), a four star officer equivalent to the three service chiefs. Major battle was the Kargil con ict in 1999 in which the Navy played a silent role while the Army and Air Force collaborated to evict intruders from Indian soil. The lessons learnt then prompted the K. Subrahmanyam Committee to propose having a CDS for the first time. Who advocate instituting a Permanent Chairman CoSC must understand that once that happens, then there would be four people opposing the CDS s creation compared to three now. Joint military doctrine of the Indian armed forces 2017 made the right noise on jointness and integration, but much work is needed on the ground to achieve even a fraction of what has been enunciated

12 Beyond business as usual It is time for India and the EU to join hands in defence of the liberal order 14th summit today in New Delhi, U.S. reducing its global footprint and China moving in to fill the vacuum, this is the right time for New Delhi Prevent the rise of isolationist, unilateral and authoritarian forces. EU-India partnership has not yet reached its full potential, India will also have to invest in greater coordination security cooperation with Europe World s two largest democracies, it is now time for Europe and India to infuse their relationship with a liberal vision for a transformed global order.

13 Protecting street vendors On October 4, hawkers near Mumbai s Haji Ali Dargah complained to the Supreme Court that authorities, in name of removing encroachments(अत क रमण), were trying to evict them. Protected under the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 Law mandates that hawkers(फ र व ल ) can be removed only as a last resort or unless there is a clear and urgent need, that too to rehabilitate them. Law Street vendors constitute an integral part of our urban economy. Not only a source of self-employment but also as a means to provide affordable as well as convenient services to a majority of the urban Law provides for the constitution of a town vending committee in each local authority to ensure implementation of provisions of the Act Forty percent of committee members are from among street vendors

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15 News Analysis Page-1- Doklam not free of PLA troops In the first formal statement from the military leadership after the disengagement at Doklam, Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa on Thursday confirmed that Chinese troops were still present in the area. Their [China s] forces in the ChumbiValley are still deployed, and I expect that they will withdraw as the summer exercise gets over, he said, responding to questions at the annual press conference ahead of the Air Force Day on October 8.

16 Page-1- India disputes ILO s modern slavery report The government has written to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) challenging a recent study on modern slavery conducted by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation (WFF) on behalf of the global body. The report does not mention India.

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18 Page-5- Gauri Lankesh named for Anna Politkovskaya Award Family to receive it at the Women of the World Festival Journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, who was shot dead by unknown assailants on September 5, has been posthumously given the prestigious Anna Politkovskaya Award instituted by Reach All Women (RAW) in War. Gauri s family will receive the award on March 2018 at the Women of the World Festival to be held in London In its statement, RAW said Gauri Lankesh shares the award with Pakistani activist Gulalai Ismail, who is fighting against Islamic extremism in her country.

19 Page-7- Pesticides cause farmer deaths, illnesses in Yavatmal- Maharashtra 472 farmers hospitalised for same infection in the last three months; 11 have died in five weeks and five are dependent on life support systems Spraying pesticides on their cotton produce.

20 Page-10- Opposition not for simultaneous elections Most Opposition parties responded negatively to Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat s assertion on Wednesday that the Election Commission would be ready to hold simultaneous elections by September They said it was neither feasible nor realistic, besides being anti-democratic. They pointed out that there had been no consensus among the parties Many of them said it would be impracticable as long as Article 356 which allows the Centre to dismiss a State government if law and order fails is on the statute book.

21 Page-15- A watershed moment for Indian football The host makes its debut in a World Cup, takes on USA in its opener The most beautiful game is a simple expression on the field stay united and achieve your goal. Welcome to the fascinating world of football as a bunch of motivated youth seeks recognition in a fiercely competitive pool at the FIFA under-17 World Cup.

22 Page-18- IIT team develops system to monitor drought in South Asia Precipitation and temperature data provided at finer resolution than before Near real-time monitoring of drought at a 5-km scale that will help policy makers in water management at a district level is now possible, thanks to tools developed and made available online by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar The data will be updated weekly. Besides drought, the datasets can also be used for monitoring heat and cold waves in South Asia

23 Last Day- Q s- Ans Organization of petroleum exporting country ( OPEC) Formed - Sept Headquarter - Vienna, austria Relation b/w Gross valve added ( GVA) & gross domestic product ( GDP) : - GVA = GDP - taxes on products + subsidies on product. Vice chairman of NITI Aayog is Rajeev Kumar

24 Today Day- Question-200 Question:- Does India need a bullet train? Examine.

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