04 May 2025 The Hindu


What to Read in The Hindu (Topic and Syllabus wise)

1. Ladakh gets new policies on quota, domicile status
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• GS 2: Issues and challenges pertaining to the federal structure

2. 20% vacancies in U.P. Police to be reserved for Agniveers
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• GS 3: Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate

3. Year-round action needed to tackle air pollution, says CM
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• GS 3: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment

4. BJP’s Satya Sharma wins last Standing Committee seat; party’s tally now 11 in 18-member MCD panel
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• GS 2: State legislatures—structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these

5. A strategy fuelled by vision, powered by energy
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• GS 3: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment

6. India-Australia defence ties beyond American shadows
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• GS 2: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests

7. Act north
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• GS 2: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation

8. War and talks
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• GS 2: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests

9. Does the civil services examination need reform?
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• GS 2: Role of civil services in a democracy

10. Building-Integrated Photovoltaics: converting buildings into solar assets
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• GS 3: Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology

11. Indian astronaut’s space mission to ISS postponed to June 10
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• GS 3: Awareness in the fields of Space

12. ‘Sulphur-cleaning device in coal plants not necessary’
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• GS 2: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment