Current Affairs from The Hindu DATE: 20-09-15
S.NO. NEWS ITEM
SYLLUBUS
1.
Netanyahu sends a) I.R
envoy to speed up
Modi visit (Pages
1 and 12)
2.
3.
Kathmandu
a)
ignores Delhis
concerns on
Constitution
(Pages 1 and 12)
ASEAN trade
a)
corridor could
ease regional
tensions (Page 14)
4.
Russia sends jets a)
to Syria (Page 14)
5.
East European
a)
leaders argue as
refugees pour
across borders
(Page 14)
British wanted to a)
ban INA song in
last years of its
b)
rule (Page 13)
6.
7.
8.
Rig Vedic age
was a golden era
for women, says
Sangh history
body (Page 12)
ISRO ready for
one satellite
launch every
month: ISAC
chief (Page 8)
ESSENCE OF THE ARTICLE
a) Even as preparations in full swing for President
Pranabs visit to Israel in October, the Israeli govt seems
to be impatient because India is yet to finanlise the dates
for PM Modis visit.
International a) Nepal is preparing to unveil its new Constitution
with a grand ceremony in Kathmandu as most members
of the Constituent Assembly signed the document this
week.
International a) Brushing aside dispute over the South China Sea,
China called for the fuller economic integration with the
ASEAN, steered by the Nanning-Singapore Economic
Corridor under the framework of Maritime Silk Road.
International a) After US Defense Secretary Ash Carter spoke with
Russia Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu in first military
contacts between the two countries in over a year, US
officials said a small number of fighter jets have been
sent by Russia to a base in Syria.
International a) Hungary and Croatia traded threats as thousands of
exhausted migrants poured over their borders, deepening
the disarray in Europe over how to handle the tide of
humanity.
National
History
a)
National
b)
History
a)
National
b)
S&T
a) Besides providing some information about Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose disappearance and constant
surveillance, the 64 Netaji files declassified by the West
Bengal govt throw important light on freedom struggle
and how even in its last years, the British considered
Indian National Army marching song seditious and tried
to ban it.
a) The RSS Akhil Bharatiya Itihaas Sankalan Yojana
defines golden period for women in India as Rig Vedic
age where they went beyond traditional roles, married at
a mature age and had the right to choose their husbands.
a) Official said the ISRO is bracing up for one satellite
launch every month in the days ahead and has 22 satellite
launches lined up for the near future.
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Current Affairs from The Hindu DATE: 20-09-15
S.NO. NEWS ITEM
SYLLUBUS
1.
Netanyahu sends a) I.R
envoy to speed up
Modi visit (Pages
1 and 12)
BACKGROUND
a) India – Israel
relations
b)
UNSC
c)
UNGA
IMPORTANT POINTS
a) Even as preparations in
full swing for President Pranabs
visit to Israel in October, Israeli
govt seems to be impatient
because India is yet to finanlise
the dates for PM Modis visit.
b) Sources have confirmed
that Israeli PM Netanyahu sent
his most trusted and powerful
aide Yossi Katribas to India on
Sept 2 to enquire about the
reason for the delay in the
announcement of Modis plans.
c) Some have said resistance
from Indias allies in Arab world
is the reason for the delay,
especially in view of Indias
desire for a wider discussion on
a permanent membership in the
UNSC at the UNGA session
this month.
2.
Kathmandu
a)
ignores Delhis
concerns on
Constitution
(Pages 1 and 12)
International
a) Nepals new
Constitution
b) Constituent
Assembly
c) Proportional
representation system
d) Critics in Delhi even suggest
that it is the strain in the ties
between US President Obama
and Netanyahu over the Iran
deal that has created a hurdle to
an early Modi-Netanyahu
summit in Jerusalem.
a) Nepal is preparing to
unveil its new Constitution with
a grand ceremony in
Kathmandu as most members
of the Constituent Assembly
signed the document this week.
b) The decision to go ahead
with the Constitution came
despite a last-minute appeal
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from India to ensure that the
members of Madhesi and Tharu
communities (which have
refused to sign the Constitution)
are brought on board first.
c) Rebuffing Indian position,
Nepals Foreign Affairs Adviser
Dinesh Bhattarai said we share
Indias concerns about making
sure the Constitution is allinclusive, but at the end this is
internal process of Nepal, and
the Constitution document is a
result of 8 years of negotiations
following best internationally
accepted practices.
d) The appeal from PM Modi
was carried by Foreign
Secretary Jaishankar on a twoday visit to Kathmandu, where
he met key political leaders
including Madhesi leaders, and
pushed the need to forge a full
consensus before unveiling the
Constitution.
e) During a vote of constituent
assembly on Sept 18, 507 of
532 members present voted to
ratify it, whereas 61 Madhesi
members boycotted the vote.
People in the Madhes and
Tharu belt of the central and
western plains of Nepal have
been up in arms over provincial
boundaries demarcated in new
Constitution as well as changes
to proportional representation
system they claim will leave
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them under-represented.
3.
ASEAN trade
corridor could
ease regional
tensions (Page
14)
a)
International
f) India has long been accused
of interference in the Nepal
conflict, as it raises problems
faced by Madhesis in areas
bordering Bihar.
a) ASEAN
a) Brushing aside dispute over
the South China Sea, China
b) Nanning-Singapore called for the fuller economic
Economic Corridor
integration with the ASEAN,
steered by the Nanningc) Maritime Silk Road
Singapore Economic Corridor
under the framework of
d) South China Sea
Maritime Silk Road.
b) Soon after the 12th edition
of the China-ASEAN Business
and Investment Summit began,
delegates from China and
ASEAN arrived at the Nanning
Consensus to build NanningSingapore Economic Corridor,
more formally dubbed as the
China-Indo-China Peninsula
International Corridor.
c) The core initiative aimed
at economic integration, would
connect eight major cities Singapore, Kuala Lampur,
Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Ho Chi
Minh City, Vientiane, Hanoi
and Nanning.
d) Observers point out that
the corridor is being structured
to help China (which wishes to
revamp its economy to a more
developed new normal plain)
shift its excess manufacturing
capacity to the less developed
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4.
Russia sends jets a)
to Syria (Page 14)
International
a) Russia – US
relations
b)
Syria crisis
c)
Islamic State (IS)
d)
Ukraine crisis
e)
NATO
f)
UNGA
zones in the ASEAN.
a) After US Defense Secretary
Ash Carter spoke with Russia
Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu
in first military contacts
between the two countries in
over a year, US officials said a
small number of fighter jets
have been sent by Russia to a
base in Syria. The move has
raised stakes in a military buildup and has put US on edge.
b) Russias military moves in
Syria are its first major
expeditionary force deployment
outside the former Soviet Union
since the war in Afghanistan.
Russia says its recent military
build-up in Syria is designed to
fight the IS group. While the IS
lacks an air force, the Russian
aircraft are capable of striking
ground targets and providing
close air support for ground
forces.
c) The phone conversation
between Shoigu and Carter
ended an 18-month freeze in
military relations caused by
NATO anger over Moscows
role in Ukraine crisis. Carter
agreed with his Russian
counterpart to explore ways to
avoid accidental military
interactions. The coordination
necessary to avoid such
encounters is known in military
parlance as deconfliction.
d)
They agreed to further
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discuss mechanisms for
deconfliction in Syria and the
counter-IS campaign.
5.
East European
leaders argue as
refugees pour
across borders
(Page 14)
a)
6.
British wanted to a)
ban INA song in
last years of its b)
rule (Page 13)
International
a) Europes refugee
crisis
National
a) Indian National
Army (INA)
History
b)
Freedom struggle
e) Moscows moves in Syria
have set the stage for Russian
President Putins address to the
UNGA on September 28, likely
shifting some attention away
from Ukraine and toward the
conflict in Syria.
a) Hungary and Croatia
traded threats as thousands of
exhausted migrants poured over
their borders, deepening the
disarray in Europe over how to
handle the tide of humanity.
a) Besides providing some
information about Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose
disappearance and constant
surveillance, the 64 Netaji files
declassified by the West Bengal
govt throw important light on
freedom struggle and how even
in its last years, the British
considered INA marching song
seditious and tried to ban it.
b) These developments
recorded in letters exchanged
between police, government
and the company relate to a
period after Netajis alleged
disappearance in August 1945.
7.
Rig Vedic age
a)
was a golden era
National
a)
Rig Vedic age
c) It was finally on Aug 29
1947, two weeks after countrys
independence that the order on
the ban on the song was lifted.
a) The Union minister for
culture Mahesh Sharma may be
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for women, says b)
Sangh history
body (Page 12)
8.
ISRO ready for
one satellite
launch every
month: ISAC
chief (Page 8)
History
b) Bharatiya Itihaas
in favour of a curfewed social
Sankalan Yojana (BISY) life for women, but the RSS
Akhil Bharatiya Itihaas
c)
Vedas
Sankalan Yojana defines golden
period for women in India as
Rig Vedic age where they went
beyond traditional roles,
married at a mature age and had
right to choose their husbands.
a)
National
a)
ASTROSAT
b)
S&T
b)
Mission Aditya
c)
Solar flares
d)
ISRO
b) BISY convenor said women
as scholars, and with important
economic roles have dotted Rig
Vedic history, they have written
Richas of the Vedasa, and we
have to know how the decline
in their rights came.
a) Official said the ISRO is
bracing up for one satellite
launch every month in the days
ahead and has 22 satellite
launches lined up for the near
future.
b) On the immediate
missions, he said ASTROSAT
is slated for launch later this
month and described it as a
multi-wave length observatory
capable of studying distant
celestial objects and the first
dedicated astronomy satellite to
be launched by the ISRO.
c) He said ISRO was also
contemplating a solar mission
to study the Sun and Mission
Aditya entailed studying the
corona and the solar flares from
a low earth orbit.
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