PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – The rise of RaisiWith the election of Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline cleric, as Iran’s President, the Islamic Republic’s ruling clergy have tightened their grip...
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TOPIC – Act and frictionRecent developments have demonstrated the Union government’s implacable determination to undermine the autonomy of the various tribunals in the country. It recently got Parliament to...
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TOPIC – Three is companyThe U.S. has joined with the U.K. and Australia to announce a new trilateral security partnership, the AUKUS, that aims to...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Three is companyThe U.S. has joined with the U.K. and Australia to announce a new trilateral security partnership, the AUKUS, that aims to...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Transient easing
The latest retail inflation data suggest, at first flush, that price pressures have begun to moderate in the economy, with the August...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Positive climate
India’s frontline position as third highest emitter of greenhouse gases has sharpened focus on its future policy course to mitigate carbon emissions under the...
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TOPIC – An unproductive idea
Incentives and penalties form an integral component of the measures to control population growth, announced by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on...
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TOPIC – Talking amid conflict
Relations 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 – Cold peace
The Geneva summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday, has set a pragmatic tone for engagement between the...
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TOPIC – Opening NDA’s doors to women
With the Centre’s decision to allow women to be inducted for permanent commission through the National Defence Academy...
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TOPIC – Catching up
The Cabinet’s approval of a Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for the textile sector that is expressly targeted at the manmade fiber...
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TOPIC – The lag between jabs
The Kerala High Court’s intervention regarding the time lag between the two doses of Covishield vaccine is both interesting and unusual. It...
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TOPIC – Making them pay
South Korea’s newest legislation, dubbed the ‘anti Google’ law, is something that Indian lawmakers should consider emulating. Last week, its Parliament passed...
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TOPIC OF THE DAY:-" From fighters to rulers"
After postponing the announcement twice, Taliban spokesmen have said that they expect to have a new government...
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TOPIC – True mettle
India saw another fortnight of good tidings in sports from Tokyo. Close on the heels of the recent Olympics there, in...
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TOPIC –An uneven uptick
With gross revenues of Rs.1.12 lakh crore in August, the GST has now yielded over Rs.1lakh crore a month for almost...
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TOPIC – Noble intentions
As India ended its month long presidency of the UN Security Council this week, the Government claimed a victory of sorts for...
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TOPIC – Fleeting cheer
The 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 – For the record
In a mega polis teeming with skyscrapers, Novak Djokovic wants to be the tallest of them all. History beckons the Serbian tennis legend at...
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TOPIC – America’s Asia policy
President Joe Biden has found himself in the uncomfortable position of facing not only the expected criticism from Republicans for his...
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TOPIC – Filled to the nines
It is not often that nine judges are appointed to the Supreme Court at one go. In a welcome sign...
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TOPIC – Risks and rewards
Following through on the Budget’s plan to monetize public assets in order to fund fresh capital expenditure on infrastructure, the...