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. P R O F I L E PRASHANT MAVANI MSc. in Management, University of Surrey (UK) Senior Faculty: StudyIQ https://www.facebook.com/prashanttmavani/ https://twitter.com/prashantmavani Download PDF notes of this lecture from my FB Page
Dilemmas in civil services selection It s gratifying that the entire selection process has till now not been hit by any scandal, something very few other prestigious systems of recruitment in the country can claim. This year, many of those selected were from rural areas; 120-odd were from the minority communities. Of the successful candidates, 240 were women. We need to have a greater number of women.
All this does not mean that we have a faultless system that offers no scope for improvement. Age limit and the number of times a candidate may take the examination? Lateral entry through another set of examinations, whereby older individuals with past job experience can still get into the civil services at appropriate levels? Lack of sensitivity Public servant corruption is still a harsh reality in urban and rural settings.
Delivering the goods Collections: crossed the D1 lakh crore mark in April Highest recorded in a single month since its implementation in July 2017. Number of registered tax-payers gone up Overall tax compliance for July 2017 is now over 96% of registered taxpayers who are required to file, and ranges from 92% to 80% for each month thereafter, till December.
Average monthly collection has gone from D89,885 crore in the first eight months to over D91,300 crore. Fresh anti-evasion measures introduced in the past few weeks, such as the e-way billing to track movement of goods, could plug leakages to some extent. The government is keen to start matching tax credits claimed by businesses for inputs from suppliers.
Call to action 14 Indian cities among the 20 most polluted ones globally. PM 2.5 levels: Kanpur, Faridabad, Varanasi, Gaya, Patna and Delhi In 2016 alone, it says, around 4.2 million people died owing to outdoor air pollution, while 3.8 million people succumbed to dirty cooking fuels such as wood and cow dung. Ujjwala has provided 37 million women living below the poverty line with LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) connections.
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India s role in ending the Korean war Mr. Robert Barnes also highlights the role of others who helped Nehru craft and execute the peace campaign. Initially, India s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, B.N. Rau, was very active. India s Ambassador in China, K.M. Panikkar, was the channel through which Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai communicated his views on the Korean conflict to the Americans as well as to the UN, since the People s Republic of China was not a member of that body then.
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But the pivot of India s efforts at New York from mid-1952 onwards, for over a year, was V.K. Krishna Menon, who was sent as Nehru s special envoy. One of the follow-up actions to the Armistice Agreement was the establishment of a Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission (NNRC) which was to decide on the fate of over 20,000 prisoners of war from both sides. India was chosen as the Chair of the NNRC, with Poland and Czechoslovakia representing the Communist bloc and Sweden and Switzerland representing the Western world.
Protect patents Bollgard-2 is an insecticidal technology which uses a gene called Cry2Ab from the soil bacterium Bacillus Thuringiensis (Bt). When inserted into a cotton plant, the gene confers resistance against cotton pests. Lack of patent protection would discourage crucial research by the agribiotech industry. Transgenic technologies such as Bt cotton are an important part of India s cotton production arsenal.
The are two key steps in the process of creating a Bt cotton hybrid. The first is carried out by Monsanto, in which it modifies the Cry2Ab gene into a form which doesn t occur in nature. Next, Monsanto inserts this modified gene into cotton seeds, again an unnatural process that cannot happen without human intervention. Such seeds, called donor seeds, are then sold to seed companies.
The turning point in 1932 The politics of the Muslim elite and all politics in the run-up to Indian independence was elite politics was driven primarily by a sense of deep insecurity. This tendency was accentuated when it became increasingly clear from the 1920s that the British would have to leave India sooner or later. The Muslim elite s anxieties were centred largely on the demographic and, therefore, political disparity between Muslims and Hindus and the domination of India s political and economic landscapes by the upper caste Hindu elite.
A landmark announcement in 1932 by British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald came close to removing these anxieties. He accepted Ambedkar s demand that it was necessary for the Depressed Classes to have separate representation in the central and provincial legislatures in order to protect their interests which ran counter to the interests of the dominant Hindu castes who also hogged most of the seats in the legislatures. Only about 13% of the population had the right to vote.
For Mahatma Gandhi the award was a ploy to divide Hindu society that he found unacceptable. Puna Pact Muslim elite s reasoning was simple: if implemented, the Communal Award, as it was known, would have led to parity between caste Hindu and Muslim representatives in the legislatures, and the Dalits, who the Muslim elite did not find threatening and who they saw as potential allies Nehru s refusal to enter into a coalition with the Muslim League in the United Provinces in 1937, which is widely seen as the turning point in Muslim politics in favour of separatism
When India and China meet Informal meet without any set agenda. Siliguri Corridor and Doklam CPEC and BRI Dalai Lama South Asia The challenge across the spine of Asia does no one good.
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Important News Collegium puts off decision on pressing Joseph s case
Chhota Rajan gets life term for killing journalist J. Dey
Cambridge Analytica ceasing operations Maintain peace along China border, Army HQ tells troops
SC questions passage of Aadhaar Act as Money Bill South Asians victimised by U.K. s hostile immigration regime Manufacturing growth improves slightly: PMI Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), rose from 51.0 in March to 51.6 in April, indicating faster improvement in the health of the manufacturing economy than in the prior month.
Answers- 1. The term Taiga means 1. Tall trees 2. Coniferous trees 3. Unexploited forests 4. Evergreen trees
Questions- 1. Spiritual diplomacy a soft power for India. Discuss 2. Which among the following Union Territories has a judicial Commissioner? 1. Puducheery 2. Andaman and Nicobar 3. Daman and Diu 4. Lakshadweep 3. The standard of living in a country is represented by its 1. Poverty Ratio 2. Per Capita Income 3. National Income 4. Unemployment Rate
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