Weekly Current Affairs Mains ( 21st to 27th JANUARY, 2020)
Topic : Crisis in Indian Aviation Sector.
Topic in Syllabus: General Studies Paper 3: Indian Economy
Context:
Last year, India’s aviation sector saw numerous problems. Amid an overall economic downswing, the sector started 2019 with the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the country following the deaths of over 300 people in the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airways crashes. Then it witnessed the closure of India’s only privately-owned full-service carrier Jet Airways. By the end of that year, Air India sought to go down the privatisation route to save itself from towering debts. There were also notable incidences of runway excursions in some of India’s prominent airports, which brought forth doubts on the sector’s overall safety standards. The technical glitches and increasing debts are leading to the reducing potential of India’s civil aviation market.
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Topic : National strategy for financial inclusion
Topic in Syllabus: General Studies Paper 3: Indian Economy
Context:
RBI has released the National Strategy for Financial Inclusion (NSFI) for the period 2019-2024.
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Topic : Quality Mandate in Higher Education
Topic in Syllabus: General Studies Paper 2: Indian Governance
Context:
- Aiming to improve the quality in Higher Education Institutions the University Grants Commission (UGC) has developed the Higher Education Quality Improvement Programme Mandate on May 2018.
- The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has adopted the Higher Education Quality Improvement Programme Mandate recently which aims at evolving higher education system to equip country’s next-generation with vital skills, knowledge and ethics for leading a rewarding life.
- 5 verticals of Quality Mandate developed by UGC cover evaluation reforms, eco-friendly and sustainable university campuses, human values and professional ethics, faculty induction and academic research integrity.
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Topic : China’s Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
Topic in Syllabus: General Studies Paper 3: Science & Technology
Context:
800+ cases have been reported and at least 25 people have died from a new coronavirus in China following an outbreak in the central city of Wuhan.
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Topic : Ending Speakers’ Inaction on Disqualification
Topic in Syllabus: General Studies Paper 2: Indian Polity
Context:
The Supreme Court has made some decisions on the position of Speaker as the adjudicating authority under the Anti-Defection Law (ADL).
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