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Nepal Constituent Assembly Opportunity Missed: Civil Services Mentor Magazine July 2012
TAPI Gas Pipeline Agreement: Future Perfect : Civil Services Mentor Magazine July 2012
English Grammar & Comprehension Command Kit for IAS Mains

Nepal Constituent Assembly Opportunity Missed: Civil Services Mentor Magazine July 2012

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:34 PM PDT

Nepal Constituent Assembly Opportunity Missed

Four years after being elected, Nepal's Constituent Assembly (CA) got dissolved without delivering a statute. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai's Cabinet, despite opposition from a major ruling partner, decided to holdfresh elections on November 22 for a new CA. The deal-breaker was the contentious issue of federalism. The Maoist-Madhesi combine sought a firm commitment that the 10- state model or the 14-state model, recommended by the constitutional commission and committee respectively, would be guaranteed as the basis for federal restructuring. The Constituent Assembly was elected to a two-year term in 2008 to draft a new constitution but has been unable to finish the task. Its tenure has been extended four times, but the Supreme Court rejected any further extensions. The assembly's formation came two years after prodemocracy protests forced Nepal's king to give up authoritarian rule and restore democracy in the country. One of the assembly's first decisions was to abolish the centuries-old monarchy and convert Nepal into a republic. The political parties have been able to resolve some other thorny differences in the past, including the future of thousands of Maoist rebel fighters who were confined to camps after giving up their armed revolt in 2006. However, they have not been able to agree on the ethnic issue.

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TAPI Gas Pipeline Agreement: Future Perfect : Civil Services Mentor Magazine July 2012

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:01 PM PDT

TAPI Gas Pipeline Agreement: Future Perfect

India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, inked the historic gas sale purchase agreement (GSPA) for the $7.6- billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan- Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, in a step that is likely to boost peace and give new shape to regional energy cooperation,often touted as the peace pipeline. The 1,680 km pipeline to become operational by 2018. The U.S. has, for almost 20 years, supported the plan to pipe natural gas over 1,100 miles from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan to Pakistan and India, commonly known as the TAPI pipeline. But the project was delayed because of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan and commercial disagreements between the partners. The TAPI pipeline will have a capacity to car ry 90 million metric standard cubic metres a day (mmscmd) of gas for a 30-year period and is likely to become operational by 2018. Last week, the Union Cabinet gave its nod to the signing of GSPA and also approved the payment of 50 cents per million metric British thermal unit (mmBtu) as the transit fee to Pakistan and Afghanistan for the gas. India and Pakistan would get 38 mmscmd each, while the remaining 14 mmscmd will be supplied to Afghanistan.

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English Grammar & Comprehension Command Kit for IAS Mains

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 10:32 PM PDT

English Grammar & Comprehension Command Kit for IAS Mains (EGCCK)

Dear Aspirants,
There is a compulsory English Paper in the UPSC Civil Services Main Exam. It carries qualifying marks only but you are supposed to qualify in it, otherwise you will be disqualified by the commission & will get YELLOW CARD. Because it is a compulsory paper, so it is really crucial in determining the final selection of the candidate. Qualifying in this paper is not really hard & rocket science, but it requires some dedication and interest towards language. Where each number is important to give the shape of your future, how can you afford to ignore this paper. I have seen some aspirants doing exceedingly well in all the papers but have failed to qualify in English and thus ruined their career.

So, we at UPSCPORTAL have decided to launch English Grammar & Comprehension Command Kit (EGCCK) For this year's (2012) Civil Services Mains. We have specially made this kit for those aspirants who are either week in this paper or have not enough time to prepare this paper. You can see contents of study kit online & can decide whether this is fruitful for you. We are advising you to not study anything else other than our kit for this paper.

After joining the course what you will get: