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2 Lecture 1- Quote 2- Editorials 3- Current Affair Q 4- Subjective Q 5- Vocabulary 6- Maps Practice 7- Capital & Currency 8-News Analysis 9-Revision

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4 Delhi Edition of The Hindu

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8 Darjeeling deadlock Delhi and Kolkata must urgently sink their differences and hold tripartite talks. 104-day shutdown in the Darjeeling hills called by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM). GJM chief Bimal Gurung - Announcement to end the shutdown after the Centre appealed State government has raided his properties, lodged several cases against him, including for misappropriation of funds and triggering violence. It has issued an arrest warrant against Mr. Gurung and declared him a proclaimed offender. October 15, the Union Home Ministry wrote to the State government that it was calling back 10 of the 15 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces posted in the hills. In response, two days later Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee moved the Calcutta High Court and got a stay BinoyTamang, naming him chief of a new board of administrators to head the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration- set up in 2012 as a semi-autonomous body. Tamang s elevation has divided GJM followers

9 Continue Central and State governments need to urgently 1)-Sink their differences, 2)-Hold tripartite talks and 3)-Meaningfully empower the GTA Economy of Darjeeling hills has taken a severe hit with both 1)- The tea and 2)- Tourism industries having suffered huge losses and struggling to chart a way out. West Bengal government looking to be in no mood to talk- Bengali would be made compulsory in the State, including in the hills- She later retracted(म कर) it. Delhi and Kolkata must urgently sink their differences and hold tripartite talks.

10 Unravelling of the Iran deal By refusing to back the agreement, Donald Trump has further diminished American power Last week U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he could no longer certify that continuing sanctions waiver for Iran, under Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ( JCPOA) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano has publicly stated that Iran is in full compliance with the deal. Though Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson and of Defence James Mattis as well as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford had bluntly(द ट क) stated that they were not in favour of the U.S. scrapping the deal. first time since 1945, a clear divide with European allies has emerged, with German, French and British leaders jointly declaring that preserving the JCPOA European Union (EU) world cannot afford to dismantle a nuclear agreement that is working. Only two countries have applauded(सर हन ) Mr. Trump s decision Saudi Arabia and Israeli

11 Continue JCPOA, signed on July 14, 2015, was the result of prolonged negotiations between Iran and P5+1 (U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China, Germany and EU). Talks began in 2003 between Iran and E-3 (Germany, France and U.K.), and in 2005 expanded to the P5+1 format. Became purposeful after Hassan Rouhani s election as President in However, implications of the breakdown are not limited to U.S.- Iran relations. Iran can make things difficult for the U.S. in Afghanistan as also in Iraq and Syria. U.S. s ability to work with Russia in Syria or with China regarding North Korea will also be impacted. And sooner or later, questions will be asked in Iran about why it should continue with the restrictions and inspections that it accepted under the JCPOA, which would have far-reaching implications for the global nuclear architecture.

12 Continue Coming after the rejection of 1)-Trans-Pacific Partnership, 2)-Paris climate change accord and 3)- North American Free Trade Agreement, Mr. Trump s decision further diminishes(घटत ) U.S. credibility(व श वसन यत ).

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14 A flood of questions Several issues must be sorted out first before the ambitious river linking plan is taken up. $87 billion plan to connect around 60 of India s largest rivers; this includes the Ganga. Once complete, it is expected to 1)-Help end farmers dependence on monsoon rains, 2)-Bring millions of hectares of cultivable land under irrigation and 3)-Help generate thousands of megawatts of electricity. Water management The river-linking plan was first proposed in 2002 by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government Stalled(ठप) as States failed to end differences over water sharing contracts and clearances. This government has been able push through clearances for the first phase of the project. Work is now set to link the Betwa and Ken rivers which pass through Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, States ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party

15 Continue Water is listed as entry 17 in List II of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution. While the government has initiated discussions to bring the subject under the concurrent list Deficient monsoon, we have seen conflicts arise among States over water access India is technically poor with respect to data related to the water sector- Basically, water resource accounts provide an accounting framework that enables the integration. State that is upstream, for example, may refuse to share water with downstream States Government should pay more attention to its more crop per drop mission There is much to be done before embarking on a gigantic project of river linking.

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19 News Analysis Page-1- Most pollution-linked deaths occur in India Nearly a quarter of all fatalities in 2015 were in country: study India is ranked number one globally on the toll taken by pollution, with a staggering 2.51 million deaths in 2015, an international commission has reported

20 Page-1- Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar resigns Within months of the Centre giving him an extension, Solicitor General of India Ranjit Kumar, the second highest ranking law officer of the government, resigned with immediate effect on Friday, a day after Deepavali

21 Page-8- A day in Delhi for Ghani and Tillerson Visits will provide India an opportunity to hold talks on regional and security-related issues Afghanistan s President Ashraf Ghani will visit India on October 24. Visit of U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to the capital on the same day.

22 Page-9- In Kedarnath, PM harks back to deluge- Q-Char Dham-?

23 Page-9- France wants India to buy more Rafales During her visit, Defence Minister will make a strong sales pitch for the fighters French Defence Minister Florence Parley will be in New Delhi on an official visit during which she is likely to make a strong pitch to sell additional Rafale fighter jets.

24 Page-12- U.S. starts anti-dumping probe into PTFE resin from India China too on radar as it suspects below-cost resin imports from both countries The U.S. has initiated antidumping duty investigations against import of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin from India and China, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

25 Last Day- Q s- Ans Sabarimala - Periyar Tiger Reserve- Western Ghat Kerala. Postal department KangerValley is located in Chhattisgarh

26 Today- Question Question:- Write a critical note on the recently Darjeeling deadlock. (200 Words)

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