INDIA-Year of Change 2017: Must for Competitive Aspirants

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INDIA 2017 A Year of Change
Must for Competitive Aspirants
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INDIA 2017 A Year of Change
As we inch closer to 2018, its time to look
back at how far India has come in the last 12
months. A recall on the challenges and
opportunities India had in 2017 suggests that
this has been the year of Brand Modi making
everything possible, no matter how many the odds
might be.
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Modi Wave worked Magic for BJP

• BJP on a roll - barring Punjab, wrested UP,
  Uttarakhand, Goa
• SP, Congress come to cropper in UP
• North-eastern India started to see saffron,
  Manipur won
• Presidential Vice-presidential elections won
  with Ram Nath Kovind Venkaiah Naidu
• Himachal Gujarat secured with Vijay Rupani
  Jairam Thakur as CMs
• Hardik Co. couldnt do much
• The popularity of Rahul Gandhi might make it more
  than a one-horse race in 2019.

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Economy A Mixed Bag of Positives Negatives

• GDP growth recovers to 6.3 in Q2, from 3-year
  low of 5.7 in Q1
• Demonetisation, GST had mixed results
• FDI jumps 37 to 10.4 billion during April-June
  2017
• The RBI recognises P2P lending startups as a new
  category of non-banking financial companies
• Total bad loans of 38 listed commercial banks
  have crossed Rs 8 lakh crore at the end of June
  quarter
• Ease of Doing Business 2018 rankings - India
  jumps 30 points to reach top100 club

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Economy A Mixed Bag of Positives Negatives

• Moody's upgrades India rating, backs Modi govt
  reforms
• Indias job market isn't likely to recover soon
• Trade in Bitcoin at your own risk Finance
  Ministry
• Stock Market gaining 27 in 2017

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India's 'can-do' Attitude on Environment

• Committed to Paris climate deal despite Trumps
  move to withdraw US from Paris Agreement
• Launches BS-IV fuel to make environmental
  statement
• Delhi shrouded in a heavy blanket of smog for
  nearly two weeks
• Dia Mirza appointed as UN Environments Goodwill
  Ambassador for India
• 3,024 pending cases before the NGT on
  environmental issues including a fine of Rs 50
  million on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living
  Foundation
• Delhi to get BS-VI fuel two years early to tackle
  pollution

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Indian Sports at its Best

• Barring Champions Trophy, India did remarkably
  well in cricket
• Virat Kohli becomes the highest run-scorer after
  200 ODIs
• Rohit Sharma first batsman to score 3 ODI double
  centuries
• Mithali Raj becomes first player to score 6000
  runs in womens ODI cricket
• Beat Malaysia in Asian Cup Hockey
• Indian Hockey team wins Asia Cup hockey
  championship after 13 years beating China
• PV Sindhu second best in badminton in the world
  championship final

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Indian Sports at its Best

• Saina Nehwal wins 2017 Malaysia Masters Grand
  Prix Gold
• Mary Koms gold at the Asian Boxing Championships
  Gaurav Bidhuris bronze at the world
  championships
• Sushil Kumar Sakshi Maliks gold at
  Commonwealth championships a modest success
• Jitu Rai, Heena Sidhu win gold in air pistol
  mixed team event
• FIFA U-17 World Cup kicks off in Mumbai, Delhi
• Kidambi Srikanth wins 2017 Australian Open

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Indian Judiciary - Guardian of the Constitution

• SC wants VVPAT in EVMs for fair elections
• The Right to Privacy is a fundamental right and
  is protected under Article 21 of the Constitution
  - SC
• SC rules seeking votes in the name of religion is
  Corrupt Practice
• SC declares right to privacy as Fundamental right
  under constitution
• Linking of Aadhaar with PAN Mandatory SC
• Church courts cannot veto divorce law SC

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India Proves its Might at the World Stage

• India-US relationship makes great strides gets
  closer to Israel
• Launched the SAARC satellite to provide services
  to all South Asian countries except Pakistan
• India's geopolitical status goes up after Doklam
  standoff
• Boycotts Chinas One Belt and One Road initiative
  that passes through PoK

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India Proves its Might at the World Stage

• Got Dalveer Bhandari re-elected to the
  International Court of Justice
• The International Court of Justice (ICJ) stays
  Kulbhushan Jadhavs execution
• Votes against US at United Nations on Jerusalem
  as Israels capital
• To host to 10 Asean leaders  in Indo-Asean Summit
  in January, 2018.

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A Tumultuous Year for Healthcare

• National Health Policy 2017 proposes to provide
  assured health services to all
• The overall health budget increased from INR
  39,879 crore to INR 48,878 crore
• 63 children in Gorakhpur 49 in Farrukhabad died
  due to lack of oxygen
• 5,413 Acute Encephalitis Syndrome cases, 369
  deaths while 838 JE cases, 86 deaths recorded
  till August
• International Yoga Day
• Crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses

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Indian Women on Centre Stage

• Sitharaman becomes India's first full-time woman
  defence minister
• Indira Banerjee appointed as Chief Justice of
  Madras High Court Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta high
  courts already have women as head
• Mountaineer Anshu Jamsenpa scales Mount Everest
  twice
• Tanushree Pareek becomes the first woman combat
  officer to be commissioned in BSF
• First Indian all-woman crew of Indian Navy
  endeavoured to circumnavigate the globe
• Manushi Chhillar wins Miss World 2017
• Five Indians including ICICI Bank's Chanda
  Kochhar among Forbes's 'The World's Most Powerful
  Women' 2017 list.

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Social Tales of 'Pain 'Pleasure

• Maharashtra reports 1497 farmer suicides since
  loan waiver
• India to be made open defecation free country
• EVM tampering row
• India calls Rohingya refugees 'threat to national
  security'
• Parliament approves law making instant triple
  talaq a criminal offence
• 2G spectrum verdict scam lost in thin air
• Lalu Yadav convicted in second fodder scam case
• Love Jihad myth or reality?
• Rise of gau rakshaks under the wings of fringe
  groups
• Crackdown on fake babas

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Tragedies Mishaps - Can we rise NOW!?

• Train mishaps including Utkal Express Hirakund
  Express
• Explosion in NTPC killed 32 injured scores
• Mumbai stampede killed 23 and many injured
• Ryan Murder Gauri Lankesh murder, etc.
• Mumbai Pub fire suffocating 14 to death.

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