Daily News Prescription - 8th September, 2021

The Hindu

GS2: Polity

• Survey details ‘catastrophic’ impact of school closure
• The PM urges the private sector to help improve quality in the government schools
• Refining the reservation policy
• Needed: A tribunal for CAPF

GS2: Governance

• Panel report on farm laws not yet out

GS2: International Relations

• CIA chief, top Russian official in Delhi

GS3: Economy

• ULFA (I) favours Assam CM as mediator for possible talks
• Govt. mulls allowing local sales by SEZ units sans import tag
• Making them pay
• The economic reforms — looking back to look ahead

GS3: Cybersecurity

• SC agrees to adjourn hearing of pleas for Pegasus case probe

 

Indian Express

GS2: Health

• How vaccines fare with delta.
• Tracking airborne pollen to prevent allergy

GS2: International Relations

• India to host G-20 in 2023; Goyal ‘Sherpa’.
• The idea of South Asia.

GS3: Environment

• Ahead of COP26, Yadav pushes for flexibility to countries in deciding timeframes for goals.

GS3: Economy

• Covid stress on small units: Mudra loan NPAs up in PSU Bank
• No new coal plants needed to meet 2030 demand.
• El Salvador becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, hits snags.
• Cabinet likely to take up telecom relief package today; cuts in SUC, licence fee.
• Stocks: SEBI allows T+1 settlement cycle.
• Merchants, companies can’t store data from Jan 1: RBI
• How the CSC network may help expand passport services.
• Mapping distress

GS3: Security

• Rajnath unveils new rules to reform financial powers of armed forces

 

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