20 June 2016 important articles to read from newspaper for UPSC exam preparation

Note: click on the headline to read that particular article in official website – (The Hindu)

NATIONAL

1.       India hopeful of convincing China to back its NSG bid

2.      Panel on education policy wants UGC Act to lapse

3.      ‘South Asia comes first, Non-Alignment on track’

4.      Improved PDS may have swung polls for TMC: Dreze

5.      Parliamentary panel to review election code, suggests ways to curb freebies

6.      106 year old woman becomes oldest Olympic torch bearer

OPINION

1.       India and the Brexit forecast

2.      The cost of nuclear diplomacy

BUSINESS / ECONOMY

1.       ‘Buy 1 get 1 free’ deals to come under GST

2.      IIP has limitations as a representative of aggregate growth in manufacturing

3.      Why China failed to make it to the MSCI Index

4.      Model for airport fees may increase passenger fares

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1.       Humans and climate change caused extinction of Ice Age giants

2.      Mars crater named after Nepal quake-hit village Langtang 

3.      CO {-2} levels increase in South Pole in all-time high