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The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 23rd Dec 2017

Affirmative(सकारात्मक) vote U.S. must heed(सावधान रहना) the UN resolution and reconsider its Jerusalem move Display of the arrogance of power. Never before in the history of the UN has a member state threatened It should not come as a surprise...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 22nd Dec 2017

2G SCAM - All Acquitted By Special Court Adultery Law Supreme Court in Yusuf Abdul Aziz v. The State of Bombay (1954). A constitutional bench held then that Section 497 did not violate the right to equality as enshrined in Articles 14 and 15...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 20th Dec 2017

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Interview Juergen Schmidhuber, 54, is a computer scientist who works on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Artificial intelligence is intelligence displayed by machines, in contrast with the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals My goal to build a general...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 19th Dec 2017

For a safe cyberspace Cyber security needs to be integrated in every aspect of policy and planning India is one of the key players in the digital and knowledge-based economy, holding more than a 50% share of the world’s outsourcing...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 16th Dec 2017

Centre to give ₹500 to TB patients every month Central TB Division has said the government would hand over a sum of •500 a month to each of India’s 35 lakh diagnosed TB patients in order to strengthen the fight against...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 15th Dec 2017

Whither disaster management after Ockhi? More lives of fisherfolk would have been saved if disaster management action plans were          implemented properly Widespread human, material, and environmental losses Most disasters — floods, cyclones, earthquakes, landslides — are due to nature’s fury(गुस्सा). Cyclone Ockhi struck Kanniyakumari district in Tamil Nadu and parts of Kerala on November 29th night and 30th morning. As per the information given by fishermen associations in Tamil Nadu and Kerala,  over 120 fishermen are dead and about 900 are still missing. Failure in damage control- basic failings in the government’s response: 1)-the cyclone warning was delayed; already out at sea; and 2)-Once the cyclone struck, there was no war­like mobilisation and action , which are the hallmarks of good disaster management. The Coast Guard, they said, turned a deaf ear to their pleas Indian Navy with its vast array of ships, aircraft and state­of­the­art technology should have stepped in immediate. Indian Meteorological Department’s timing of the cyclone forecast -? What has happened to the1)-National Disaster Management Act (2005),2)-National Policy on Disaster Management (2009),...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 14th Dec 2017

Anti-Defection Law Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis More time to link accounts to Aadhaar- Deadline extended from Dec. 31 to March 31, 2018 Hearing from today- Challenge to the validity of the Aadhaar scheme Prepare plan mapping air pollution sources: SC Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to notify a comprehensive action plan mapping the sources of air pollution in Delhi and the...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 13th Dec 2017

Human rights and Indian values Neither civilisational ethos nor the mere enshrining of constitutional morality is enough to deliver on basic rights Union Minister for Minority A•airs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi was quick to respond to the murder of Afrazul Khan...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 12th Dec 2017

Media coverage of peacekeeping operations is an area with many gaps China rising Beijing has become the largest troop contributor among permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC). More importantly, China is now the third largest contributor to the...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 11th Dec 2017

North Korea, the world is way past tactical solutions, Only a comprehensive diplomatic solution will work Saddam Hussein- Iraq Muammar Gaddafi- Libya North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong­un     To give up his weapons. Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2003 India, Israel, Pakistan and South Sudan Exhausted from imposing sanctions to isolating China- Refugees into its territory Russia-  No cards to play Japan and South Korea, in a sense, then  are the real victims How we can live with a nuclear North Korea rather than think of impractical military solutions THE CRUNCH TIME OF WTO(World Trade...