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Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 06 August 2013
(Current Affairs MCQ) Test Your Skills - 05 August 2013
Today's Important News: 06 August 2013
(Audio Notes) Current Affairs Daily : 05 August 2013 "Topic : Good Governance & Role of Politics"
UPSCPORTAL Daily Dose in Hindi (रोजाना समाचार, वस्तुनिष्ठ प्रश्न, ऑडियो नोट्स) "06 अगस्त 2013"
(Sample Material) CSAT Online Coaching : Data Interpretation - Mix Diagram
(Sample Material) IAS Online Coaching : Polity - Constitution Amendment

Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 06 August 2013

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:34 AM PDT

Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 06 August 2013

Foreign telecom vendors hang up on testing lab

Two years after the Department of Telecom (DoT) decided to set up a telecom equipment testing lab at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore,
It will address security issues, foreign vendors have now refused to share their design details with the premier academic institute as it could hurt their business interests.
This sudden turn of events will now further delay the setting up of a full-fledged 'Telecom Testing and Security Certification Centre' (TTSCC), which should have become fully operational by April 2013. It will also hurt India's preparedness towards creating the 'Telecom Security Directorate' as mandated by the National Security Council.
Cochin shipyard to float out Vikrant on August 12
The State-owned Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) will use a pontoon-assisted method, designed in-house, to float out India's first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-I)— to be named INS Vikrant — on August 12, four years after its keel was laid.
"Additional pontoons have been welded to the underwater hull of the IAC, which will increase the buoyancy of the vessel and overcome the limitation on the launching weight,"
The launch marks the end of the first phase of carrier construction with nearly 75 per cent of the vessel structure, including the ski-jump and most underwater equipment in place.
It will be redocked again for completion of superstructure and extensive outfitting, slated to be attained by 2016.
The revised schedule for induction of the home-made carrier into the Navy is 2018, four years later than planned.

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(Current Affairs MCQ) Test Your Skills - 05 August 2013

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:10 AM PDT

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Today's Important News: 06 August 2013

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:10 AM PDT

Today's Important News (06-08-2013)

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Threat imminent: U.S.; missions closure extended

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(Audio Notes) Current Affairs Daily : 05 August 2013 "Topic : Good Governance & Role of Politics"

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:10 AM PDT

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Spotlight/News Analysis (5 Aug):

Topic of Discussion: Good Governance & Role of Politics
Expert Panel: Arun Bhagat (Former Intelligence Bureau Chief), Urmi Goswami (Senior Journalist)

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UPSCPORTAL Daily Dose in Hindi (रोजाना समाचार, वस्तुनिष्ठ प्रश्न, ऑडियो नोट्स) "06 अगस्त 2013"

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 05:09 AM PDT

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चर्चा का विषय: सुषासन एवं राजनीतिक हस्तक्षेप
विश्लेषक: अरूण भगत (पूर्व प्रमुख खुफिया ब्यूरो), उर्मी गोस्वामी (वरिष्ठ पत्रकार)

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(Sample Material) CSAT Online Coaching : Data Interpretation - Mix Diagram

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:18 AM PDT

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Subject: Data Interpretation
Topic: Mix Diagram

Directions: The diagram below depicts the sources and uses of funds in a Public Sector Enterprise. The total outlay is ` 4000 crore.

1. If working capital has to be managed out of the loan funds, then was percentage (approximately) of loan funds should be set apart for this purpose?
(a) 25%
(b) 40%
(c) 55%
(d) 70%

(Sample Material) IAS Online Coaching : Polity - Constitution Amendment

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 01:10 AM PDT

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Subject: Polity
Topic: Constitution Amendment

Constitution reflects the aspirations and needs of the people of the country. It has to be a dynamic document giving shape to the popular aspirations as they evolve from time to time. It has to facilitate socio-economic change and national security. Therefore, all constitutions provide for built-in procedures for amendment. Such procedures can be rigid or flexible. Rigid procedure is elaborate, difficult and special. It is a characteristic of federal Constitutions where the Constitution involves distribution of powers to the two levels of government and so can be amended only when both the tiers of government accept the same. Rigidity, thus, usually involves ratification by state legislatures. However, only federal provisions are covered by the rigid procedure and not the non-federal parts of the Constitution.

Flexibility means passing an amendment Bill in the same manner as an ordinary Bill Indian Constitution has a combination of both.

Constitutions undergo amendments informally (imperceptibly) and formally (perceptibly). In the former method, there are two ways

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