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THE GIST of Editorial for UPSC Exams : 27 February 2020 (Towards E-Mobility Mission (The Hindu)) Lithium

THE GIST of Editorial for UPSC Exams : 27 February 2020 (Towards E-Mobility Mission (The Hindu))

Towards E-Mobility Mission (The Hindu) Mains Paper 3:Economy Prelims level: National E-Mobility Plan Mains level: Infrastructure development in transport sector Context: The Supreme Court has sought response from centralgovernment on a petition that was filed questioning theimplementation of National E-Mobility Plan. VEHICLE More Efficiency: Though batteries deliver 340 times lessenergy…
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February 28, 2020
Turkey says will not stop Syrian refugees reaching Europe after troops killed Syria

Turkey says will not stop Syrian refugees reaching Europe after troops killed

ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe, a senior Turkish official said, as Ankara responded on Friday to the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in an air strike by Syrian government forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib region. FILE PHOTO: Internally displaced Syrian is pushed…
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February 28, 2020
Coronavirus-fighting tech is strengthening China’s mass surveillance China's Social Credit System

Coronavirus-fighting tech is strengthening China’s mass surveillance

Over the past week, their Lunar New Year absence prolonged by the coronavirus outbreak, Chinese people have been gradually returning to work. As they prepare to leave their hometowns, they can, or are sometimes obliged to, provide personal data such as recent travel and health conditions on their smartphones, usually through Alibaba…
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February 28, 2020
Ukrainian state investigators are now looking into Joe Biden and Burisma Volodymyr Zelensky

Ukrainian state investigators are now looking into Joe Biden and Burisma

A Ukrainian court forced the opening of an investigation into claims that former Vice President Joe Biden pressured the resignation of a special prosecutor in order to benefit his son Hunter Biden. The Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigations confirmed the investigation into Biden's motivation to press for the 2016 dismissal…
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February 28, 2020
Pompeo’s Preposterous Push Back At Munich – Analysis Chinese Expansionism

Pompeo’s Preposterous Push Back At Munich – Analysis

I assume that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is intelligent and accurately represents the views of the United States of America. That is what makes his 15 February speech at this year’s Munich Security Forum all the more worrying. It was entitled and themed “The West is Winning”. https://www.state.gov/the-west-is-winning/  In it…
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February 28, 2020
Turkish VP says Damascus to pay ‘heavy price’ for ‘treacherous’ attack after at least 33 Turkish troops killed in Idlib airstrike Genocide

Turkish VP says Damascus to pay ‘heavy price’ for ‘treacherous’ attack after at least 33 Turkish troops killed in Idlib airstrike

Turkey's vice president has vowed revenge on Syrian forces after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike in the rebel-held Idlib province. Ankara previously said it had launched air and artillery strikes in retaliation. Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay unleashed a scathing verbal attack on Syrian President Bashar Assad…
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February 28, 2020