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TOPIC – Limits of power In ruling that the one-year suspension imposed last year by the Maharashtra Assembly on 12 BJP legislators was illegal and...
PARAGRAPH WORDS AND MEANING
TOPIC – Limits of power: In ruling that the one-year suspension imposed last year by the Maharashtra Assembly on 12 BJP legislators was illegal and...
PARAGRAPH WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Turbulence ahead The Tata Group’s consummation of its acquisition of Air India last week marks both the culmination of the airline’s return to...
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TOPIC – Big on hopes, short on ideas
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman fourth successive budget, while common sensical in its approach, is not exactly bubbling with...
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TOPIC – Boosting confidence
The downward trend in fresh coronavirus infections in India continues to inspire confidence that the pandemic is on the wane. The daily new...
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TOPIC – Tempered optimism
The course of the coronavirus pandemic in the new year presents a picture of contrasts, with some rich countries running out of...
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TOPIC – Outreach and overreach(As long as the court does not usurp executive’s role, action to mitigate a crisis is welcome)
Judicial intervention in response to the Union...
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TOPIC – Budgeting in a time of crisisThe Great Depression wrecked the economies of the U.S. and Europe. In the words of Jonathan Alter, when Franklin Roosevelt became the American President in 1933, he...
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TOPIC – Cease the fireFrom Israeli armed forces storming Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday morning to Israel pounding Gaza with airstrikes and artillery on Thursday...
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TOPIC – Persistent mindlessnessThe deaths of over 20 paramilitary personnel in an encounter with the Maoists in the Tarrem area near Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district once...
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TOPIC – Cultural genocide
The recent discovery of hundreds of graves in Canada has put the spotlight back on its dark past, when indigenous people faced systemic discrimination and violence....
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TOPIC – Protecting prisonersIf overcrowding of prisons has been a perennial problem in this country, high occupancy levels can only mean bad news amidst a pandemic. The...
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TOPIC – Sensitive and preciseUndoubtedly, trafficking is a pernicious offence, one that societies and governments must have zero tolerance for, and yet, handling the offence of trafficking...
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TOPIC – Showing the way outIn what must be a déjà vu moment for outgoing Prime Minister K.P. Oli and President Bidya Devi Bhandari, the Supreme Court...
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TOPIC – Salutary stepsAmid criticism that it did not enforce steps to curb the spread of COVID19 during the protracted campaign for Assembly elections in...
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TOPIC – Shared valuesU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s day-visit to Delhi this week was heavy on discussions and understandably light on deliverables. The visit,...
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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 – Fleeting cheerThe latest GDP estimates expectedly show that national output rebounded in Q1 of the current fiscal from the record contraction in April June 2020,...
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TOPIC – Sensing heatThis year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine — awarded to the researchers, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian from the University of California,...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
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 – Risks and rewardsFollowing through on the Budget’s plan to monetize public assets in order to fund fresh capital expenditure on infrastructure, the Government...
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TOPIC – Choppy watersWhen Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the stage to address the UNSC on a debate on maritime security — the first Indian...