UPSCPORTAL : "(Current Affairs MCQ) Test Your Skills - 15 August 2013" plus 7 more

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• (Current Affairs MCQ) Test Your Skills - 15 August 2013
• Today's Important News: 16 August 2013
• The Politics of Convenience: Civil Services Mentor Magazine August 2013
• Naxalism in India: Civil Services Mentor Magazine August 2013
• Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 16 August 2013
• UPSCPORTAL Daily Dose in Hindi (रोजाना समाचार, वस्तुनिष्ठ प्रश्न, ऑडियो नोट्स) "16 अगस्त 2013"
• (Audio Notes) Current Affairs Daily : 15 August 2013 "Topic : Prime Minister's Independence Day Address to the Nation"
• Today's Important News: 15 August 2013

(Current Affairs MCQ) Test Your Skills - 15 August 2013 Posted: 16 Aug 2013 06:10 AM PDT Questions: 2 Attempts allowed: Unlimited Available: Always Pass rate: 75 % Backwards navigation: Allowed These MCQ's Are Based On "THE HINDU" 15 August 2013 Start quiz IAS Exams Online Coaching. Books for Civil Services Examinations ©2013 www.upscportal.com

Today's Important News: 16 August 2013 Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:57 AM PDT Today's Important News (16-08-2013) The Hindu National: Food Bill: some States lose, some gain Current Affairs MCQ International: read more IAS Exams Online Coaching. Books for Civil Services Examinations ©2013 www.upscportal.com

The Politics of Convenience: Civil Services Mentor Magazine August 2013 Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:57 AM PDT The Politics of Convenience In the immediate aftermath of the Boston bombing, ugly evidence emerged of how ethnic stereotyping tears apart civilisational fabric. Misdirected racist vitriol saw Indian- American Sunil Tripathi falsely named as a suspect by hordes of Reddit and Twitter users. One can only imagine the wretched situation of the Tripathi family as one of their own faced a social media lynching, only to be told a week later that a body found in Rhode Island's Providence Harbour was Sunil's. Then the Federal Bureau of Investigation aided the steady, trickling flow of background details on the Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan (26, killed in a gunfight with police) and Dzhokhar (19, in custody but hospitalised with severe injuries), suspects in the bombing. Within days, the media unearthed the Tsarnaev link with Chechnya, Dagestan and Kyrgyzstan and a cascade of public commentary proclaimed the Islamist connection established. President Barack Obama kept the rhetoric moving along smoothly when he tacitly approved labelling what happened in Boston an "act ... of terror." After the Boston Marathon bombers struck on April 15, killing four in their wake and injuring 264, the initial caution about ethnoreligious stereotyping of "Islamic extremists" appears to have given way to a freewheeling discourse that seeks to firmly tie Muslims to global terror plots. Before this rather crude logic acquires a national echo and, similar to the post-9/11 scenario, fuels hate crimes against ethnic minorities such as Muslims and Sikhs, it is important to give context to America's cynical application of the notion of "terrorism." read more IAS Exams Online Coaching. Books for Civil Services Examinations ©2013 www.upscportal.com

Naxalism in India: Civil Services Mentor Magazine August 2013 Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:57 AM PDT Naxalism in India The attack in southern Chhattisgarh this past May 25 has again raised questions — and some bogeys — about India's internal conflicts and the place Maoist rebels occupy in this universe. What's the situation? And what is likely to happen? The short answer is that over the past three to four years, Left-wing rebels led primarily by Communist Party of India (Maoist) have been severely depleted by the surrender, arrest or death of leaders and cadres. Pressured by the onslaught, often knee-jerk, of both central and various state governments, the Maoists' effective area of combat has shrunk to southern Chhattisgarh and adjacent areas of western Maharashtra and southwest Odisha (known as Danda-karanya), Bihar, a few pockets in Jhark-h-and, a sliver of Andhra Pradesh. While it is an emphatic weakening, the area is still vast, and cadre numbers and abilities enough to inflict severe damage in areas of strength. The Dandakaranya zone, where the attack on May 25 took place, is both major Maoist sanctuary, and core laboratory for administration, education, healthcare and way of community living and economic activity run by the Janatana Sarkar, or people's government. This remains among the most inaccessible and forbidding policing and combat terrains in the country. This is where top Maoist military leadership shelters. This is where some of the most battlehardened cadres are. Naturally, this is also where most government forces combating Maoists are located. For Maoists, this region is also quite different from the rough and tumble in Bihar and Jharkhand where Maoist rebels have for long been less concerned with trying to provide an alternate grassroots model; because of what can be called 'objective conditions' of rebellion, more engaged in retribution and survival. The Maoists' duress is manifold. Among other things, they appear to be increasingly hard-pressed to communicate issues. There is a core hard-Left-leaning pool in urban India that will continue to provide recruits for on-ground action and eventual, ideological leadership. As ever this core is driven by angry intellectualism, and can move easily, generationally, from farmers' rightsrelated land issues prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s to, say, land-related issues of tribal rights, and callous, often-corrupt land acquisition for various projects. read more IAS Exams Online Coaching. Books for Civil Services Examinations ©2013 www.upscportal.com

Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 16 August 2013 Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:57 AM PDT Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 16 August 2013 What went wrong with India's TB control Tuberculosis is very much in the news, but for all the wrong reasons — a shortage of drugs; increasing multi-drug and extensive drug resistance (MDR, XDR), making treatment both cumbersome and expensive; total drug resistance (TDR) as a veritable death warrant; popularly used serological tests for diagnosis being declared worse than useless, and a government order for mandatory case notification. Private practitioners are legally authorised to treat TB, but without quality check mechanisms. They often bypass the prescribed treatment protocol, while MDR, XDR and TDR result from non-protocol drug treatment. India pioneered TB control among developing nations. A national TB control project was launched in 1962. With BCG vaccination as the main intervention, there was an air of expectancy that it would protect In 2012, India's golden jubilee year of TB control, the World Health Organization (WHO) named India the worst performer among developing nations, with 17 per cent of the global population carrying 26 per cent of the global TB burden. BCG vaccination India's TB control pioneers P.V. Benjamin and Frimodt-Moller introduced the mass BCG vaccination in the hope that it would protect against infection by TB bacilli BCG manufacturing began in Chennai and an extensive vaccine trial was launched in Chengalpattu district, Tamil Nadu, to measure its protective efficacy. In 1978, the Expanded Programme on Immunisation took over BCG vaccination. In 1979, preliminary results of a 15-year-long BCG trial showed no protection against infection by TB bacilli. In 2000, the Indian Academy of Pediatrics called for a major redesign of TB control, with alternative tactics to prevent infection and treat infection before it caused disease. WHO's 2012 Annual Report on TB confirmed India's failure. DOTS saves lives from TB mortality, but has failed to control TB. read more IAS Exams Online Coaching. Books for Civil Services Examinations ©2013 www.upscportal.com

UPSCPORTAL Daily Dose in Hindi (रोजाना समाचार, वस्तुनिष्ठ प्रश्न, ऑडियो नोट्स) "16 अगस्त 2013" Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:56 AM PDT UPSCPORTAL Daily Dose in Hindi दैनिक खुराक (दैनिक समसामयिकी, वस्तुनिष्ठ प्रश्न, ऑडियो नोट्स) "16 अगस्त 2013" समसमायिक रोजाना ऑडियो नोट्स: चर्चा का विषय: स्वतंत्रता दिवस पर प्रधानमंत्री का भाषण विश्लेषक: प्रो0. अमरजीत सिंह नारंग (इग्नू), पार्शा वेंकटेश्वर राव जूनियर (डी. एन. ए.) अधिक जानकारी के लिए यहां क्लिक करें read more IAS Exams Online Coaching. Books for Civil Services Examinations ©2013 www.upscportal.com

(Audio Notes) Current Affairs Daily : 15 August 2013 "Topic : Prime Minister's Independence Day Address to the Nation" Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:17 AM PDT Current Affairs Daily Voice Notes Spotlight/News Analysis (15 Aug): Topic of Discussion: Prime Minister's Independence Day Address to the Nation Expert Panel: Prof. Amarjeet Singh Narang (IGNOU), Parsha Venkateshwar Rao Junior (D.N.A.) read more IAS Exams Online Coaching. Books for Civil Services Examinations ©2013 www.upscportal.com

Today's Important News: 15 August 2013 Posted: 16 Aug 2013 03:15 AM PDT Today's Important News (15-08-2013) The Hindu National: Midnight blasts sink INS Sindhurakshak India's patience has its limits, says Pranab Current Affairs MCQ International: read more IAS Exams Online Coaching. Books for Civil Services Examinations ©2013 www.upscportal.com

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UPSCPORTAL : "(Current Affairs MCQ) Test Your Skills - 15 August 2013" plus 7 more