CIVIL SERVICE CURRENT AFFAIRS TOPICS - OCTOBER 2015

TOPICS OF 07-10-2015

• City may lose bio-diversity spot

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity,  Environment & Ecology]

• e-commerce likely to be $80 billion industry by 2020: report

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Politics,Economy, Business]

• RBI relaxes norms for FPI investment in government debt

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

Editorials You should read:

• The politics of waste management

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Ethics, Infrastructure]

• Revolutionary therapies

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains-Ethics,G.K]

• Unbundling the coal-climate equation

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Ethics, Politics]

TOPICS OF 06-10-2015

Important News from The Hindu:

• Apex court seeks response on compensatory pollution charges

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity,  Environment & Ecology]

• New education policy may be finalised on Oct. 12

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Politics]

• Nuclear energy not viable, says German economist

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Ehics, Infrastructure, Economy, Business]

• World Bank estimates show fall in India’s poverty rate

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Politics, Economy]

• Road Safety Bill will give govt power to order recall of vehicles: Gadkari

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Politics, Economy]

• First U.K. cybersecurity delegation to visit India

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- IR, IP, Cyber Security]

• 3 win Nobel Prize in Medicine for parasite-fighting therapies

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- G.K]

Editorials You should read:

• The grand delusion of Digital India

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Ethics, Infrastructure]

• Holy cow, unholy violence

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Ethics, Politics]

• The reactionary present

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Ethics, Politics]

TOPICS OF 05-10-2015

Important News from The Hindu:

• MSF withdraws operations in Kunduz

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- IP, IR]

• SEBI wants mutual funds to lower costs

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

• Payments banks to help in move to ‘cashless economy’

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

• Congress to challenge ordinance postponing local body polls

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Politics]    

Editorials You should read:

• Digital India needs to go local

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Polity, Ethics, Infrastructure]

• Towards universal immunisation

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains-  UNO & Its Programme]

TOPICS OF 04-10-2015

• Climate change can alter the planet s shape

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Climate change]

• ICRISAT introduces finger millet as mandate crop

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Agriculture]

• Reserve Bank of India’s surprise rate cut puts its long-term credibility at risk

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

• Sugar export boost plan looks flawed: traders

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

• Jaitley sees India as new engine of global growth

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Economy, Business]

TOPICS OF 03-10-2015

• India to cut emissions intensity

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Climate change]

• India banks on subsidy cuts, higher taxes on fuels

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

• Small businesses in Tier 3 cities lead smartphone adoption: report

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

• Gasoline exports to fall 98 % during 2014-19

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business, IP]

• DIPP notifies automatic FDI route for white label ATMs

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Economy, Business, Infrastructure]

Editorials You should read:

• India needs no Monroe Doctrine

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, IR, IP]

• How to avoid Copenhagen in Paris

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains-  Climate Change, Environment, IP]

• Not infallible but trustworthy

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Ethics]

TOPICS OF 02-10-2015

• India will set emissions reduction target: Javadekar

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Climate change]

• UN sees 1.4m arrivals in Europe

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- IP, IR]

• SEBI allows higher overseas investment by AIFs, VCs

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

• IRDAI to roll out norms on reinsurance, governance

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

• Govt. may revert to practice of auctioning sand reaches

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Economy, Business, Infrastructure]

Editorials You should read:

• PM Modi dazzles Silicon Valley

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Politics]

• Making India free of smoky kitchens

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Politics, Environment]

• Towards a shared weltanschauung

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- IP, IR]

TOPICS OF 01-10-2015

• India to hold G20 Chair in 2018, Delhi may play host

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- IP, IR, Economy, Business]

• Natural gas price cut in line with new policy

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

• India climbs 16 places in WEF’s Global Competitiveness Index

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

• Life insurance penetration should be through banks: report

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Economy, Business]

• India, U.S., Japan say interests in Indo-Pacific converge

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- IP, IR, Economy, Business]

Editorials You should read:

• Scripting clean polls, via Aadhaar

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Politics]

• The inconvenience of the past

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Politics, Ethics]

• Lost in a forest of bad ideas

  [Important for: Prelims/Mains- Polity, Politics, Environment]