National Events
- Economic survey points out positive s and negatives (Free Available)
- Supreme Court refused to stay the new law on Jallikattu (Free Available)
- New restrictions introduced in H-1B visa (Free Available)
- President delivered address to the Parliament (Free Available)
- Income tax reduced for earning between Rs. 2.5 lakh and Rs. 5 lakh (Free Available)
- Political funding from unknown sources capped at 2000 rupees (Free Available)
- Budget for reviving investment and generating jobs (Free Available)
- PM Modi termed Budget as step for overall development (Free Available)
- Budget has imprint of Prime Minister Modi (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- H-1B visa reforms could be blessing for Indians (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- U.S.-based NGO Compassion International to shut India's operations (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- All airlines will soon have to compulsorily submit passenger records (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Telangana govt is redesigning projects related to irrigation (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Supreme court puts status quo on Gujjar reservation(Only for Online Coaching Members)
- U.S. imposed sanctions on more than two dozen Iranian entities(Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India highlighted it’s commitment to the Palestinian cause (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Controversial travel ban suspended by US (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Assembly polls in Punjab and Goa saw a big turnout (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Samples from the oil spill analysed by the Central Pollution Control Board (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- V.K.Sasikala to become next CM of Tamil Nadu (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Govt says they want to end the practice of triple talaq (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- ISRO on the cusp of making history (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India-Bangladesh talked about Ganga basin development (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- NGT sought the response of the Centre and State for compensation (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Identification of mobile subscribers through an e-KYC allowed by SC (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Japan's mission to clear space junk ended in failure (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- PM puts strong defence or demonetisation and surgical strikes (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India is taking its first steps to evolve a policy on synthetic biology (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- US recognised India as major defence partner (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Political crisis in Tamil Nadu deepened (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India began the process for extradition of Vijay Mallya (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Data analysis shows unarmed civilians fall victim to IED more (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Aadhaar number mandatory for food subsidy (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Central govt to provide 90% subsidy under HathkarghaSamvarthanSahayata scheme (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- National Women's Parliament bring the issue of women reservation in forefront (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The government plans to set up a Defence Procurement Organisation (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Govt says it will take steps to remove the black money (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Govt forms panel for crackdown on shell companies (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India made progress towards Ballistic Missile Shield (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The immunity of pregnant women can be affected by the gender of the baby (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- People came to help stranded whales at New Zealand (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- National Women’s Parliament ended (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- President drawing less salary than a Joint Secretary in the Government of India (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Naxalite groups continue to be “lethal and resolute” in using IEDs (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The Bajaj Committee for Krishna River Management Board starts working (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- PM told ministers to furnish travel records (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Justice Karnan remain defaint to SC orders (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Manipur blockade to continue for some more time (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Karnataka passed the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Bill, 2017 (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The Jammu and Kashmir government launched the e-Prison project (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- SC found Sasikala guilty in disproportionate assets case (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Aero India 2017 took off in Bengaluru (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- SC clarifies its order on national anthem (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Delhi-Centre issue to be taken by constitution bench (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India created history by record 104 spacecraft launch (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Government appointed five new judges to apex court (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Army chief General Bipin Rawat warns of tough action (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Terror attack on a popular Sufi shrine in Sindh province (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Apex court gets tough on sex determination (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Rajasthan students may will get lessons in water conservation (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Proposal to build a wall along J&K dropped (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Sureme court says there is no National song (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Manufacturing Kamov-226T helicopters in India to start (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Governor has discreation to call anyone even against popular will (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Edappadi K. Palaniswami won the confidence of the assembly in T.N. (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Towed artillery to be developed indigenously (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams is running under heavy loss (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Bihar says Farakka barrage is responsible for floods in Bihar (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Against the backdrop of largescale protests Nagaland CM quits (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The Centre to oppose bill to declare countries like Pakistan terror states (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Vijay Mallya's custody sought under Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Status report of investigation conducted by SIT into 1984 riots filed in SC (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Amnesty expressed concerns over a range of human rights violations in India (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India to strengthen surveillance of over 7,500-km coastline of the country (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- SC asks whether ISPs can identify those who upload obscene content online(Only for Online Coaching Members)
- United Kingdom has assured India of expeditious action on wanted persons(Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Scientists predict life expectancy will reach 90 years (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- EU team says Kashmir issue must be dealt internally in India (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Three lakh Indian in US face risk of deportation (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Apex court remain firm on construction of SYL (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- BJP continued its dominaance on Maharashtra (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Kerala will soon have a sex offenders’ register (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India to jointly develop a medium range surface-to-air missile with Israel(Only for Online Coaching Members)
- CBSE asked school buses should have a limit of 40 km/hour (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Racial attack on Indians in US(Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India to throw open its border roads to help Bangladesh construct outpo(Only for Online Coaching Members)sts
- India likely to unveil its most powerful supercomputer of 10 petaflops (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant universe spotted (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Prime Minister reassured the people of Manipur (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- NASA to put astronauts on test flight of the deep space capsule Orion (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- About 30-35% of the annual crop yield in India gets wasted because of pests (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India targets eliminating measles and controlling congenital rubella syndrome (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India’s only active volcano is active again (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Govt wants scientists to more focus on ‘science for the benefit of the people’ (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Memorandum of Procedure for appointment of judges to be finalised soon (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Immigration restrictions to be highlighted by Foreign Secretary in U.S. (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- According to New World Wealth, Mumbai is the richest city in the country (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The railways will soon manufacture its own high speed train sets (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India has intensified efforts to increase Aerial surveeillance (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Despite several difference India and China to find solutions (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- Moonlight movie won the top prize in academy awards (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- The Central Pollution Control Board says international studies are flawed (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- 3D organ-on-a-chip that can mimic the heart (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- India is one of the most “open economies in the world says FM (Only for Online Coaching Members)
- NASA plans to send its first robotic spacecraft to the Sun (Only for Online Coaching Members)
Economic survey points out positive s and negatives
- The government’s Chief Economic Adviser said there was a sense of anxiety about the economy’s prospects following demonetisation and stressed the need to allay the fears of an overzealous tax regime in its aftermath.
- Mr. Subramanian termed the move to cancel the legal tender nature of high-value currency notes a “radical currency-cum-governance-cum-social engineering measure to permanently and punitively raise the cost of illicit and unaccounted transactions or kala dhan (black money).”
- “Bank credit growth has come down, two-wheeler sales have come down. There will be an impact on GDP. But the question is how much,” he said.
- The Survey pegs economic growth in 2016-17 at 7.1%, but this is based mainly on information for months before the November 8 demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes.
- This is half a percentage point lower than the 7.6% growth last year, but the CEA warned that comparisons attributing the difference in growth numbers to demonetisation alone would be foolhardy.
- Mr. Subramanian declined comment on the design and implementation of demonetisation, but did speak on the costs, and long-term benefits of what was “an unusual and unique monetary experiment” aimed at a structural break.
- After a temporary slowdown in GDP growth, the Survey expects the economy to return to normal, once the scrapped currency is replaced by March.
- In the long run, tax revenues and GDP growth would be bolstered on account of greater tax compliance and a reduction in real estate prices.