The Hindu Newspaper : Headlines Of The Day – 23 and 24/7/2023

Headlines of The Day from The Hindu Newspaper :

Front Page

• Railways’ post-Balasore plan to speed up signalling revamp may take long years
  1. GS -3 Railways
• NIA files chargesheet against nine accused linked to BKI and Khalistan Tiger Force
  1. GS -3 Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security.
  2. Read about Khalistan issue – Operation Blue star

Science

• Climate targets are becoming outdated: India needs its own
  1. GS -3 Environment
  2. Read about Paris agreement – climate targets – Earth system model and challenges – Need for India to have its own targets – INDC

World

• Russia strikes Odesa cathedral, as Putin says Ukraine counteroffensive ‘failed’
  1. Prelims –  Transfiguration Cathedral, UNESCO protected city centre

News

• 75 people still untraced in landslip hit village in Raigad
  1. GS -1 Geography / GS -3 Disaster Management
  2. Read about Landslips – Causes- Mitigation measures – SDRF and NDRF
• A different kettle of fish: Kashmir wants Europe to taste its trout
  1. Prelims – Trout Fish
• ASI team in Varanasi, to begin scientific survey of Gyanvapi mosque complex
  1. Prelims – Read about Places of Worship Act – ASI
• Japanese Foreign Minister to visit India this week, discuss vision for Global South
  1. GS -2 Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
  2. Read about India – Japan Relationship – Global South and importance for India
• Imphal-based COCOMI writes to European Parliament on its Manipur resolution
  1. Prelims- Golden Triangle of Drugs Trade
• NSG team visits blast-hit restaurant in Shimla to ascertain cause of incident
  1. Prelims – NSG

Text & Context

1. On ED’s power to arrest and seek custody (GS-2)

Opinion

1. The politics of the Uniform Civil Code (GS-2)

Editorial

1. Dilemmas of India’s great power ambitions (GS-2)
2. A case for a new pronoun for AI (GS-3)
3. Downhill driving (GS-3)