Tutoroot UPSC

04/02/2020

IMPORTANT ARTICLES IN THE NEWSPAPER OF FEBRUARY 4th

✓ Camel in the tent
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/camel-in-the-tent-on-shortage-of-doctors/article30729068.ece

✓ Towards cooperative federalism
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/towards-cooperative-federalism/article30729075.ece

✓ Non-violence as an art of resistance
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/nonviolence-as-an-art-of-resistance/article30728512.ece

✓ No rescue in sight
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/union-budget-2020-no-rescue-in-sight6249488/

✓ Explained: All you need to know about hike in bank deposit insurance
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-all-you-need-to-know-about-hike-in-bank-deposit-insurance-6248958/

✓ Simply put: What Finance panel has said
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/simply-put-what-finance-panel-has-said-6249511/

✓ SC to frame issues for 9-judge Bench hearing religious rights
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sabarimala-case-sc-to-frame-questions-relating-to-discrimination-against-women-in-religions/article30724662.ece

✓ nCoV outbreak declared a State calamity in Kerala
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kerala-declares-coronavirus-as-state-calamity-after-third-positive-case/article30728355.ece

✓ Will not splurge to end slowdown: Sitharaman
https://www.thehindu.com/business/budget/will-not-splurge-to-end-slowdown-says-nirmala-sitharaman/article30728794.ece

✓ Swarms of locusts spotted in border villages of Punjab
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/swarms-of-locusts-spotted-in-border-villages-of-punjab/article30729048.ece

✓ Assam river on fire after crude spillage
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/assam-river-on-fire-for-two-days-after-crude-oil-spillage/article30724994.ece

✓ Most missing women from Maharashtra, M.P.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra-records-highest-number-of-missing-women-ncrb/article30728296.ece

✓ If tap water meets BIS norms, RO systems will be banned
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/centre-to-bar-domestic-ro-systems-in-places-where-tap-water-meets-bis-norms/article30728356.ece

✓ Operation Vanilla brings island closer
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/delhi-extends-reach-in-ior-with-madagascar-relief-effort/article30728418.ece

✓ Siachen troops given poor gear says CAG
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/siachen-troops-given-poor-gear-cag/article30728491.ece

✓ ‘Govt. will catalyze infra investment’
https://www.thehindu.com/business/budget/union-budget-2020-expenditure-secretary-tv-somanathan-interview/article30729851.ece

✓ Education & Aspiring India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u6AQp6OV9o

Allowing district hospitals to be attached to private medical colleges is problematic

03/02/2020

Introduction to Factors of Production (Land, Labour, Capital, Entrepreneur)

01/02/2020

*IMPORTANT ARTICLES IN THE NEWSPAPER OF FEBRUARY 1st*

✓ India abroad
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/india-abroad-the-hindu-editorial-on-diplomats-firefighting-negative-references-to-india/article30706266.ece

✓ Unfounded optimism
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/unfounded-optimism-the-hindu-editorial-on-gdp-forecast-of-economic-survey-2019-20/article30706263.ece

✓ Path to prosperity
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/india-economic-survey-2019-20-gdp-growth-6244977/

✓ A sneeze, a global cold and testing times for China
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/a-sneeze-a-global-cold-and-testing-times-for-china/article30706280.ece

✓ Thinking beyond farm sops
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/thinking-beyond-farm-sops/article30706291.ece

✓ Crisis along the coast
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/crisis-along-the-coast-dust-of-maradu-demolitions-yet-to-settle-in-kerala/article30705900.ece

✓ What changes in 1971 abortion law, and why India feels it necessary
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-1971-abortion-law-changes-india-6244999/

✓ Simply put: What we know of 2019 Novel coronavirus
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/simply-put-what-we-know-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-6245010/

✓ Explained: Brexit here, what changes & what doesn’t
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-brexit-changes-britain-uk-uropean-union-6245001/

✓ Privatisation: Survey suggests new vehicle
https://www.thehindu.com/business/privatisation-survey-suggests-new-vehicle/article30706188.ece

✓ Food inflation higher in urban areas
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/food-inflation-higher-in-urban-areas/article30706153.ece

✓ India has low rates of formal entrepreneurship
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/india-has-low-rates-of-formal-entrepreneurship/article30706210.ece

✓ Fiscal deficit hits 132% of full-year target
https://www.thehindu.com/business/fiscal-deficit-hits-132-of-full-year-target/article30706194.ece

✓ Core sector grows at 1.3% in Dec. 2019
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/core-sector-grows-at-13-in-dec-2019/article30706222.ece

✓ Crop dusting with drones is illegal, says Centre
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/crop-dusting-using-drones-is-illegal-says-centre/article30706526.ece

✓ ‘There’s more space for intervention on monetary front than fiscal front’
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/theres-more-space-for-intervention-on-monetary-front-than-fiscal-front-says-sanjeet-sanyal/article30705409.ece

✓ Essential Commodities Act is outdated, must go
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/essential-commodities-act-is-outdated-must-go/article30707826.ece

✓ ‘No evidence of wrong estimation of growth’
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/economic-survey-2019-20-no-evidence-of-wrong-estimation-of-growth/article30705845.ece

✓ High fees keep poor children away from higher education
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/high-fees-keep-poor-children-away-from-higher-education/article30707824.ece

✓ Needed: fewer regulations for start-ups
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/needed-fewer-regulations-for-start-ups-says-cea-krishnamurthy-subramanian/article30706088.ece

✓ Stubble burning incidents come down
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/stubble-burning-incidents-come-down/article30705487.ece

✓ Pro-business policy vital for India to become a $5 trillion economy
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/pro-business-policy-crucial-to-meet-aspirations-sitharaman/article30705795.ece

✓ Thalinomics: the formula behind one square meal
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/thalinomics-the-calculation-behind-one-square-meal/article30706742.ece

✓ Bigger banks needed for $5 trillion economy
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/economic-survey-2019-20-bigger-banks-needed-for-5-trillion-economy/article30706141.ece

✓ A chance to chart China-like export trajectory
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/economic-survey-2019-20-india-can-chart-china-like-export-trajectory/article30705827.ece

✓ India on high alert after WHO declares global emergency
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/coronavirus-india-on-high-alert-after-who-declaration/article30699629.ece

✓ CEA sees growth rebounding to 6%
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/economic-survey-2019-2020-seeks-end-to-norms-stifling-competitiveness/article30706491.ece

✓ CAA fulfils wish of Gandhiji, President tells Parliament
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/caa-fulfils-wish-of-gandhiji-president-tells-parliament/article30708753.ece

✓ GDP revised downwards for 2018-19
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/national-statistical-office-revises-gdp-growth-rate-for-2018-19-downwards-to-61/article30703428.ece

✓ Economic Survey 2019-20
https://youtu.be/LsZyKSG6Snk

Diplomats are spending most of their time trying to keep out negative references to India

31/01/2020

Global Talent Competitiveness Index:
The Seventh Edition of the GTCI report compiled by INSEAD, in collaboration with human resource firm Addeco and Google, was released at WEF in Davos, Switzerland.

Click here to read full article: https://analysis.tutoroot.com/global-talent-competitiveness-index/

31/01/2020

National Population Register (NPR):
The Union Cabinet approved a proposal to conduct Census 2021 and updation of the National Population Register (NPR).

The Union Cabinet has approved a proposal of the Home Ministry to spend Rs 8,754 crore for the Census 2021 and Rs 3,941 crore for updating the NPR will take place in April to September 2020.

Click here to read the full article: https://analysis.tutoroot.com/national-population-register-npr/

31/01/2020

IMPORTANT ARTICLES IN THE NEWSPAPER OF JANUARY 31st

✓ Should restrictions on free speech be reviewed?
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/should-restrictions-on-free-speech-be-reviewed/article30694970.ece

✓ For the rural poor, a manufactured crisis
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/for-the-rural-poor-a-manufactured-crisis/article30695598.ece

✓ A deliverance
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/a-deliverance-the-hindu-editorial-on-pregnancy-termination-bill/article30695656.ece

✓ Why President Address matters
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/budget-session-citizenship-amendment-bill-president-ram-nath-kovind-address-6243406/

✓ Why virus could hit Indian Pharma industry
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/why-coronavirus-virus-could-hit-indian-pharma-industry-6243420/

✓ Stay with stimulus
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/india-growth-rate-imf-budget-2020-6243277/

✓ Matter of her right
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/abortion-bill-india-upper-limit-raised-6243263/

✓ The ugly truth about India’s adherence to the FRBM Act
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-union-budget-2020-the-ugly-truth-about-indias-adherence-to-the-frbm-act-6243108/lite/

✓ India's Civil Society Moment
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/indias-civil-society-moment-citizenship-act-npr-nrc-6243207/

✓ Country’s first coronavirus infection confirmed in Kerala
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indias-first-coronavirus-infection-confirmed-in-kerala/article30691004.ece

✓ Divorce sealed, Brexit finally arrives today
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/divorce-sealed-brexit-finally-arrives-today/article30695559.ece

✓ ‘Address EU’s concerns on CAA’
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/address-eus-concerns-on-caa-says-uk-high-commissioner-sir-dominique-asquith/article30695450.ece

✓ SC to fix on Feb. 3 timeline for women’s equality case
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sc-to-fix-on-feb-3-modalities-for-hearing-case-on-religious-faith-womens-equality/article30692113.ece

✓ ‘CDS must handle capital procurements'
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/cds-must-do-capital-procurements/article30698075.ece

✓ 4 hydro projects violate Ganga flow norms: CWC
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/four-hydro-projects-violate-ganga-flow-norms-cwc/article30695064.ece

✓ A.P. flags off country’s first ‘fruit train’
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-flags-off-countrys-first-fruit-train/article30697230.ece

✓ Budget Expectations- Energy Sector
https://youtu.be/ROyCxwPNoiQ

Instead of focusing on increasing rural wages, the BJP-led government is wasting resources on the NPR and NRC

30/01/2020

IMPORTANT ARTICLES IN THE NEWSPAPER OF JANUARY 30th

✓ A mindset problem
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/a-mindset-probleml-the-hindu-editorial-on-rural-jobs-scheme-fund-crunch/article30686582.ece/amp/

✓ Compromising scientific curiosity for marketability
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/compromising-scientific-curiosity-for-marketability/article30686499.ece

✓ Time to prioritize education and health
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/time-to-prioritise-education-and-health/article30686474.ece

✓ A road map for robust trade ties
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-road-map-for-robust-trade-ties/article30685921.ece

✓ Gandhi, the dissident
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/gandhi-the-dissident/article30686019.ece

✓ More people need to come under tax net
https://www.livemint.com/money/personal-finance/more-people-need-to-come-under-tax-net-11580317734288.html

✓ Can UBI reignite the economy?
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/can-ubi-reignite-the-economy-11580293689566.html

✓ Explained: What it means to be removed from a party’s list of star campaigners
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-what-it-means-to-be-removed-from-a-partys-list-of-star-campaigners-6241601/

✓ Explained: What Trump’s new Middle East plan says
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-what-trumps-new-middle-east-plan-says-6241607/

✓ Centre advises against travel to China; IndiGo, AI cut services
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/airlines-cut-china-flights-as-companies-restrict-travel-on-virus-fears/article30680864.ece

✓ Time limit on advance bail violates personal liberty: SC
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/time-limit-on-advance-bail-violates-personal-liberty-supreme-court/article30687440.ece

✓ MEPs defer vote on CAA motion to March
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/members-of-european-parliament-defer-vote-on-motion-against-citizenship-amendment-act/article30687342.ece

✓ Cabinet nod for raising gestation period for abortion to 24 weeks
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/cabinet-nod-to-raise-upper-limit-for-abortions-from-20-to-24-weeks-6241639/

✓ Homeopathy, Ayurveda to prevent coronavirus: govt.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-recommends-homoeopathy-ayurveda-to-prevent-coronavirus-infection/article30686644.ece

✓ OSF moves HC against ‘watch list’ order
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/george-soros-open-society-foundations-moves-hc-against-mha/article30686579.ece

✓ Will Trump’s peace plan help resolve the Israel-Palestine crisis?
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/will-trumps-peace-plan-help-resolve-israel-palestine-crisis/article30688380.ece

✓ India urges direct talks between Israel, Palestine
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/india-urges-direct-talks-between-israel-palestine/article30686395.ece/amp/

The government should use the MGNREGS as a means to spur the rural economy

30/01/2020

DEMOCRACY IN DECLINE WORLDWIDE: REPORT ON DEMOCRACY INDEX

The 12th edition of the Democracy Index finds that the average global score has fallen from 5.48 in 2018, to 5.44.
This is the worst average global score since the democracy Index was first produced in 2006.

Click here to read the full article: https://analysis.tutoroot.com/democracy-index-2019/

29/01/2020

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index published annually by Transparency International since 1995 which ranks countries “by their perceived levels of the public sector.

Click here to read the full article: https://analysis.tutoroot.com/corruption-perceptions-index-cpi-2019/

29/01/2020

*IMPORTANT ARTICLES IN THE NEWSPAPER OF JANUARY 29th*

✓ Alarming spread
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/alarming-spread/article30677660.ece

✓ Maharaja on sale
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/maharaja-on-sale/article30677657.ece

✓ The continuing theme of uncertainty, volatility
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-continuing-theme-of-uncertainty-volatility/article30677665.ece

✓ The many problems of delayed data
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-many-problems-of-delayed-data/article30677476.ece

✓ Dissent won’t hurt a nation’s foreign policy agenda
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/dissent-wont-hurt-a-nations-foreign-policy-agenda/article30677105.ece

✓ Examining the slowdown
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/examining-the-slowdown/article30677218.ece

✓ Explained: India’s imports of palm oil — dynamics of the trade with Malaysia
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-indias-imports-of-palm-oil-dynamics-of-the-trade-with-malaysia-6240379/

✓ What is Spitzer Space Telescope
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/what-is-spitzer-space-telescope-6240065/

✓ Explained: Takeaways from Bodo Accord
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-takeaways-from-bodo-accord-6240082/

✓ Explained: Why India wants to bring the African cheetah to India
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-why-india-wants-to-bring-the-african-cheetah-to-india-6240005/

✓ Peaceful development is China’s strategic choice
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/peaceful-development-is-chinas-strategic-choice-6240073/

✓ African cheetahs to prowl Indian forests
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/african-cheetahs-to-prowl-indian-forests/article30680871.ece

✓ ‘E-commerce giants need to set up system for collecting plastic waste’
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/e-commerce-giants-need-to-set-up-system-for-collecting-plastic-waste-cpcb-to-ngt/article30678996.ece

✓ SC gives 10 days for pleas on entry of women in religious places
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sc-fixes-10-day-period-for-hearing-issues-of-discrimination-against-women-at-religious-places/article30672808.ece

✓ EU motion calls CAA ‘discriminatory’
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-reaches-out-to-meps-to-soften-stand/article30677739.ece

✓ 10 more wetlands in India declared as Ramsar sites
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/37-indian-wetlands-declared-sites-of-international-importance-under-ramsar-javadekar/article30675881.ece

WHO cannot dither any longer as the coronavirus spreads with renewed vigour

28/01/2020

WELCOME TO TUTOROOT

THREE FREE LIVE ONLINE CLASS FOR UPSC

Starts From: 29th Jan 2020 to 31st Jan 2020

Book Slot THREE FREE LIVE CLASS FOR HISTORY!!!

website: https://www.tutoroot.com/online-upsc-ias-coaching-classes
Youtube: https://youtu.be/rE2hrRpDJhk
Blog : https://analysis.tutoroot.com/

For More Class Contact Us
9100171666

28/01/2020

IMPORTANT ARTICLES IN THE NEWSPAPER OF JANUARY 28th

✓ Abolition politics
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/abolition-politics/article30668936.ece

✓ Crime and politics
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/crime-and-politics/article30668919.ece

✓ The road to genocide
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-road-to-genocide/article30667901.ece

✓ A case of wholehearted biotechnology adoption
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a-case-of-wholehearted-biotechnology-adoption/article30668962.ece

✓ Retrieving the idea of citizenship
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/retrieving-the-idea-of-citizenship/article30668939.ece

✓ Explained: Why China has emerged as the epicentre of global outbreaks of disease
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/coronavirus-sars-china-epicentre-global-outbreaks-6238641/

✓ Air India disinvestment: Will the new terms attract investors?
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/air-india-disinvestment-debts-privatisation-departure-announcement-6238629/

✓ Explained: Why some states have Vidhan Parishads, why Andhra Pradesh doesn’t want one
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/why-some-states-have-vidhan-parishads-why-ap-doesnt-want-one-6238632/

✓ The stress in state finances
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/tax-revenue-state-finance-deficit-gst-6238319/

✓ In India facial recognition surely offers many benefits
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/facial-recognition-ban-google-technology-6238312/

✓ Budget 2020: How to “monetise Indian consumer again”
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/union-budget-2020-fiscal-deficit-money-interest-rate-gdp-tax-relief-6238305/

✓ Govt. sweetens Air India offer, puts 100% stake on the table
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/govt-sweetens-air-india-offer-puts-100-stake-on-the-table/article30670868.ece

✓ CAA rules may seek ‘proof of religion’
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/caa-rules-expected-to-seek-proof-of-religion/article30664820.ece

✓ Centre, Assam govt. sign accord with Bodo groups
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/govt-signs-accord-with-ndfb-absu-to-resolve-bodo-issue/article30665589.ece

✓ Major gaps in our knowledge of coronovirus origin: report
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/gaps-in-our-knowledge-of-coronavirus-origin-need-fulfilment-lancet-study/article30668941.ece

✓ ‘Why is a certificate needed to identify a transperson?’
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/why-a-certificate-to-identify-a-transperson-sc/article30670777.ece

✓ Muslim personal law a cultural issue: AIMPLB
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/aimplb-moves-sc-for-impleadment-in-pleas-challenging-validity-of-polygamy-nikah-halala/article30663993.ece

✓ Speaker seeks to stall EU debate on CAA
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/lok-sabha-speaker-seeks-to-stall-eu-debate-on-caa/article30669004.ece

✓ Myanmar-China Pact & India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIN7U7QL-NM

✓ Manufacturing Sector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdW6y-fx2ro

Without consensus or policy, expediency dictates abolition and revival of Councils