Wednesday, October 02, 2019

UPSC Exam Calendar 2020: Check the Exam Dates of Civil Services (IAS, IFS), CDS, NDA

UPSC 2020 Exam Calendar
S. No.	Name of Examination	Opening & Closing Date of Application	Date of Commencement of Exam	Duration of Exam
1	Engineering Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2020	25.09.2019 to 15.10.2019	05.01.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
2	Combined Geo-Scientist (Preliminary) Examination, 2020	25.09.2019 to 15.10.2019	19.01.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
3	Reserved for UPSC RT/ Examination	-	19.01.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
4	C.D.S. Examination (I), 2020	30.10.2019 to 19.11.2019	02.02.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
5	Reserved for UPSC RT/ Examination	-	23.02.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
6	CISF AC(EXE) LDCE-2020	04.12.2019 to 24.12.2019	01.03.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
7	Reserved for UPSC RT/ Examination		08.03.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
8	N.D.A. & N.A. Examination (I), 2020	08.01.2020 to 28.01.2020	19.04.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY

9	Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2020	12.02.2020 to 03.03.2020	31.05.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
10	Indian Forest Service (Preliminary) Examination, 2020 through CS(P) Examination 2020	12.02.2020 to 03.03.2020	31.05.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
11	I.E.S./I.S.S. Examination, 2020	25.03.2020 to 13.04.2020	26.06.2020 (FRIDAY)	3 DAYS
12	Combined Geo-Scientist (Main) Examination, 2020	-	27.06.2020 (SATURDAY)	2 DAYS
13	Engineering Services (Main) Examination, 2020	-	28.06.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
14	Reserved for UPSC RT/ Examination		05.07.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
15	Combined Medical Services Examination, 2020	08.04.2020 to 28.04.2020	19.07.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
16	Central Armed Police Forces (ACs) Examination, 2020	22.04.2020 to 12.05.2020	09.08.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
17	Reserved for UPSC RT/ Examination	-	23.08.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
18	N.D.A. & N.A. Examination (II), 2020	10.06.2020 to 30.06.2020	06.09.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
19	Reserved for UPSC RT/ Examination	-	13.09.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
20	Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2020	-	18.09.2020 (FRIDAY)	5 DAYS
21	Reserved for UPSC RT/ Examination		04.10.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
22	C.D.S. Examination (II), 2020	05.08.2020 to 25.08.2020	08.11.2020 (SUNDAY)	1 DAY
23	Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination, 2020		22.11.2020 (SUNDAY)	10 DAYS
24	S.O./Steno (GD-B/GD-I) LDCE	16.09.2020 to 06.10.2020	12.12.2020 (SATURDAY)	2 DAYS
Note: The dates of notification, commencement and duration of Examinations/ RTs are liable to alteration, if the circumstances so warrant.

Important Date for UPSC CSE Examination, 2020

Daily Current Affairs, 02nd October 2019

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1) International Day of Non-Violence: 2nd October

•The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. According to the UN General Assembly, which established the commemoration, International Day is an occasion to “disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness”.

2) Nation pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th and Lal Bahadur Shashtri on his 115th birth anniversary

•The Nation pays homage to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary today i.e. 2nd October 2019. A series of activities are being organized across the country and by Indian Missions abroad.

•The nation is also remembering Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 115th birth anniversary. Under Shastri’s leadership, India won the 1965 war against Pakistan. He gave the nation the powerful slogan of Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan to enthuse soldiers and farmers.

3) Jai Bhagwan Bhoria appointed as new administrator for PMC Bank

•The Reserve Bank of India has superseded the Board of Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank Limited, Mumbai and appointed Jai Bhagwan Bhoria as the bank’s administrator with all powers of the board. The amount of withdrawal from the bank allowed to depositors has been increased from one thousand to ten thousand rupees.

•The RBI’s directives will remain in force for a period of six months.

4) Surjit S Bhalla appointed as Executive Director for India at IMF

•The government has appointed economist Surjit Bhalla as the executive director of the International Monetary Fund for a period of three years. The post was lying vacant after the death of Dr. Subir Gokarn in July.

•Bhalla earlier served as a member of the prime minister’s economic advisory council but resigned earlier this year.

The HINDU Notes – 02nd October 2019

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📰 No curbs thrust on Kashmiris: Centre

100% landlines working, says S-G

•Fifty-six days into a lockdown that began on August 5 in Jammu and Kashmir, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta claimed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday that “no restrictions” had been thrust on the Kashmiris and “100% landlines are working”.

•At one point when one of the judges on the Bench, Justice B.R. Gavai, asked Mr. Mehta about the state of mobile phone connectivity in the State, the top law officer indicated that mobile phones were a relatively recent phenomenon in Jammu and Kashmir.

•“Are there mobile lines working in J&K?” Justice Gavai asked.

•“Mobile lines were there in the rest of the country from 1995, but it started in J&K only in 2005... If mobiles start, WhatsApp messages will come from across the border,” Mr. Mehta replied.

•Senior lawyer Vrinda Grover, for journalist Anuradha Bhasin, pressed the Bench, led by Justice N.V. Ramana, to focus on the question of why the lockdown was continuing, now for the 56th day.

•Senior advocate Meenakshi Arora submitted that “people who come from far-flung districts of Jammu and Kashmir are not able to access medical care in Srinagar... Health schemes, including the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, is linked to the Internet.” But Mr. Mehta said all these claims about the inability to access health care were “absolutely wrong”. He submitted, “They are being said for something else, which I don’t want to say now.”

•The Solicitor General, who has filed an affidavit in Ms. Bhasin’s petition, said over 16 lakh people have had access to outpatient services in government hospitals in J&K since August 5.

•There have been over 15,000 major surgeries and 65,000 minor surgeries. The government even had the statistics on the number of dental visits, which was over 95000 after August 5.

•But Ms. Arora was not convinced by the figures. For one, she reasoned, they were not shared with the petitioner for independent verification.

•Secondly, there was nothing to compare these statistics of the government with. “What were the numbers before August 5? We don't know,” she said.

•This was the first hearing held by the Justice Ramana Bench, which also comprises Justice R. Subhash Reddy, on the several petitions filed from across the spectrum against the lockdown and lack of access to basic facilities.

•In an affidavit, the J&K government justified the ‘temporary restrictions’ and claimed they had prevented loss of life.

•In a separate affidavit, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs fully endorsed the J&K affidavit and said the Centre is “committed to making every endeavour to ensure that the region returns to a state of normalcy as expeditiously as possible, consistent with the requirements of national security and maintenance of peace and order.”

•On September 30, another three-judge Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi suddenly decided to shift the petitions to this “Kashmir Bench.” The CJI cited paucity of time due to the marathon Ayodhya appeals hearings.

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