Heya,
I'll keep updating till 2nd - 3rd week of August'12.
Of course I need to sort below topics based on paper 1 and 2 for GS. Will do that when time permits.
1. Government Programmes and policies
(i) Telecom policy - laying optical fiber through out the nation in progress
Water polic,2012
New Science Policy 2013
(ii) NREGA - under scanner
(iii)
UGC Regulation Bill , 2010 - review
(iv) Higher Education bill
(vi) Copyrights Act,2012
(vii) NELP
2. Polity
(i) Presidential election issue
(ii) Prez. Reference on 2G SC-verdict
The
Presidential Reference which, in effect and substance, seeks to
question the correctness of the judgment in the 2G spectrum
allocation case, is entirely impermissible and not maintainable,
the former Attorney General and senior counsel, Soli Sorabjee
Mr.
Sorabjee said such reference would be plainly ultra vires Article
143 and not maintainable. The Supreme Court, under Article 143, was
not invested with appellate or review jurisdiction in respect of a
judgment which had attained finality.
(iii) Central Water Commission
(iv) UGC , NCERT panels
(v) NHRC / Freedom of rights to speech and expression
Economy
GAAR DTC GST
Indian Depository Receipts
Insider Trading
3. International Issues :
Arab Spring - Egypt , Uzbek in news
Eurozone crisis - current trend
South Sudan
Soft coup in Paraguay
Delhi Investors summit on Afghan ,
Tokyo conf
International Organisations :
FAO
South China Sea Issue
Ten
Southeast Asian nations had agreed on a code of conduct to prevent
armed clashes over the South China Sea but still sought China’s
agreement.
The
issue of contending maritime claims is the major topic of the talks
held in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, in large part because
tensions over the sea have escalated in recent months. Chinese and
Philippine ships engaged in a standoff in one disputed area, and
Vietnam last month protested Chinese energy proposals for seas both
nations claim.
East China Sea Dispute
4.Summits
Rio+20 - green economy focus
G20
Asean - South China sea dispute takes centre stage
SCO - India claims greater role
Tokyo declaration
CSTO
5.Foreign Affairs / Policy
NAM 2.0
India -
Bangladesh
- inland water trade renewed
India - China
Chinese
officials have said they are close to completing the repaving of
the Xinjiang-Tibet national highway, which runs through the
disputed Aksai Chin region (India holds claims to it), for the
first time in 50 years. The 2,143-km road runs from Yecheng county
in Kashgar prefecture in Xinjiang south to Lhatse in the Tibet
Autonomous Region (TAR);
The
Xinjiang section of the road is 654.8 km in length. It is regarded
as the highest traversable road in the world. Construction of the
road began in 1951, and its completion in 1957 caught India by
surprise, triggering tensions ahead of the 1962 conflict. The
rebuilding of the road along with the earlier project of the high
speed train through the region only increase the asymmetry of
infrastructure between the countries in the region.
India -
Nepal
India -
Africa
India -
US
- Washington Accord (4 Er prac abroad)
- OGPL
- Millenium Alliance( promote innovation @ grassroot level)
-
India -
EU
INDIA, EU TO BEGIN TALKS ON FTA
US - Afghan - India
- MNNA status : US-2-Afghan
- Operation Enduring Freedom
- Pak playing spoilers
Indo - Pak
- Track 2 diplomacy
- resolved to check cross border firing
- river water sharing issue on the cards
- FDI allowed , electricity exportes
- Border trade routes opened
6. National Issues
- Nuclear Energy
- Power Project issues - Tata Mundra Power Project , POSCO
- Economy slowdown - RBI and Govt measures
7. Science and Technology
8. Environment , Climate
- IUCN Report on Extinct species
- Western Ghats as heritage site
Monsoon worries - dam storage level dips
The
monsoon was deficient by 23 per cent. Karnataka and Maharashtra had
received scanty rain so far and the position had not improved to a
satisfactory level.
Cultivation
of groundnut and soyabean was expected to improve as there was good
rain in parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat in the last two days;
The
delay in arrival of monsoon and its slow progress has affected
sowing of major kharif crops including paddy, pulses, oilseeds and
coarse cereals. The rainy season is crucial for kharif season as
only 40 per cent of cultivable area is irrigated.
Decline in world's reefs
More
than 2,600 of the world's top marine scientists recently warned
coral reefs around the world were in rapid decline and urged
immediate global action on climate change to save what remains;
Coral
reefs provide food and work for countless coastal inhabitants
globally, generate significant revenues through tourism and
function as a natural breakwater for waves and storms
Caribbean 75-85 per cent lost in
the last 35 years.
Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the
best-protected reef ecosystem on the planet, 50 per
cent decline in the last 50 years;
85 per cent of reefs in Asia's ‘Coral Triangle’ are
directly threatened by human activities such as coastal
development, pollution, and overfishing.
The
Coral Triangle covers Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the
Philippines, The Solomon Islands, and East Timor and contains
nearly 30 per cent of the world's reefs and more than 3,000 species
of fish.
9. Culture
UNESCO Categ.1 Institute
Film Commission
Timbuktu
- The
Islamists controlling northern Mali on Tuesday destroyed two tombs
at the ancient Djingareyber mosque in fabled Timbuktu, vowing to
destroy all World Heritage sites in the region.
- Akbarabadi Masjid
10. Defense and Security
DNSChanger
11. Personalities in news
Dara Singh
Anto Peter
Gopalaswamy Parthasarathi
Carlos Slim
Anna Swatch
Gagan Ulalmath
12. Demography
Demographic impact on Internet
Population decline in Nagaland
13. Health
Kala Azar
