PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Limits to accommodationThe RBI’s latest monetary policy statement and accompanying actions reflect the dilemma confronting monetary authorities. While the RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to...
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TOPIC – Talking amid conflictRelations between the world’s two biggest powers, the U.S. and China, have been in free fall over the past five years amid the...
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TOPIC – Cutting the captainAmarinder Singh’s ouster and the selection of his baiter Charanjit Singh Channi as Chief Minister of Punjab was scripted in Delhi by the Congress High...
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TOPIC – Beguiling baseThe latest sets of data on industrial output and retail inflation are beguilingly heartening, with the former showing a double-digit year-on-year increase in production,...
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TOPIC – A tragic loss
India has lost a capable and experienced military leader in the tragic death of the country’s first Chief of Defense Staff (CDS),...
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TOPIC – A time to introspectAt its first physical meeting during the pandemic, the GST Tax Council approved a flurry of changes. Concessional tax rates on vital...
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TOPIC – Jabbing childrenAs a milestone, the Subject Expert Committee’s (SEC) recommendation to the Drugs Controller to grant emergency use authorization (EUA) for Covaxin among...
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TOPIC – False dichotomyThe Supreme Court has once again addressed the ‘merit versus reservation’ debate, a misleading binary that has engaged public and judicial discourse...
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TOPIC – Caught in the crossfireAn Indian fisherman was killed in firing by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) off the Gujarat coast on November...
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TOPIC – Pique and petulanceIn filing a quick appeal against the grant of statutory bail to lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj, the NIA has displayed nothing but pique and petulance over...
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TOPIC – Road to recoveryT he latest GDP and GVA estimates from the National Statistical Office have affirmed that the economy is now on the path to...
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TOPIC – Transition in perilThe resignation of Sudan’s civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has pushed the country, already battered by political instability, anti-military protests and violence, into...
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TOPIC – Sanctions and rightsThe U.S. move to sanction a paramilitary unit in Bangladesh, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), has apparently caught the administration in Dhaka off-guard,...
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TOPIC – Bugle for restraintThe schedule for Assembly elections in five States announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on January 8 was along...
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TOPIC – A progressive stepThe announcement by the Nagaland government that a high-powered panel will be set up to look into the withdrawal of the...
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TOPIC – Protect, don’t panderThe ‘heckler’s veto’ seems to be winning repeatedly against standup comedian Munawar Faruqui. Bengaluru has joined the list of cities in...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Pique and petulanceIn filing a quick appeal against the grant of statutory bail to lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj, the NIA has displayed nothing but pique and petulance over...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Boosters shortOn November 22, the Director-General, ICMR, said that there was no scientific evidence thus far to administer a booster vaccine dose to...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – False dichotomyThe Supreme Court has once again addressed the ‘merit versus reservation’ debate, a misleading binary that has engaged public and judicial discourse...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – End the impunityNotwithstanding the rationale provided by the Union Government and the armed forces for the horrific killing of six coal miners and...
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TOPIC – Inflation conundrumWhile North Block mandarins seek to conjure up policy levers in the upcoming Budget to spur India’s fragmented economic recovery along, the latest official data suggest...
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TOPIC – UnconqueredSport throws up surprises and cricket is not immune to it. The latest twist transpired at Cape Town’s Newlands where South Africa registered...