Insights Weekly Essay Writing Challenge – Week Thirty Six
ARCHIVES 07 December 2014 Write an essay on the following topic in not more than 1500 words: Pluralism and Its Importance for India Reference Reference Reference
Day: December 6, 2014
[UPSC Mains-2014] Insights Secure Questions on Current Events, December 5th and 6th, 2014
ARCHIVES 07 December 2014 Answer ALL the questions in about 200 words: 1) “Untouchability in India is not just a rural phenomenon, it is also an urban phenomenon as found by recently the India Human Development Survey II.” In the light of the findings of this survey, critically comment how and why untouchability persists even in …
UPDATE: Regarding Recent Problem With Our Website
Thank you all for your incredible patience. This site is hosted on Bluehost. They are experiencing some server problem (where our site is located) which is taking long time to fix. They have promised us that within next 24 hours all problems will be solved (they promised us this 48 hours ago). But it seems …
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News Analysis: Social Justice Bench At Supreme Court
ARCHIVES All India Radio, 05 December 2015 http://www.newsonair.com/writereaddata/broadcast/Daily-Spotlight-Bulletins-33310.mp3 Chief justice of India has set up a special bench to exclusively deal with social justice for less previliged, disadvantaged sections of society, women and children. Social justice is not an something unique concept. It is explicitly mentioned in our constitution and it is the duty of …
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The Big Picture – Petrol & Diesel Prices: Are consumers deprived of full benefit?
The rapid fall in crude oil prices over the last few months, with the barrel price coming down to around 70 US$/barrel, has resulted in a welcome fall of prices of Diesel and Petrol in the country. However accompanying the reduction in diesel and petrol prices have been 2 excise duty hikes in the last …
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Insights Daily Current Events, 06 December 2014
Insights Daily Current Events, 06 December 2014 Expenditure Reforms Commission Set up Govt. of India had set up Expenditure Reforms commission under the chairmanship of Shri K.P. Geetha Krishnan. It has submitted its report recently. Why was it set up? To find a solution to the problem of high rate of growth of non-developmental expenditure …
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Insights Daily Current Events, 05 December 2014
Insights Daily Current Events, 05 December 2014 India betters rank in net freedom ‘Freedom on the Net 2014’ report says that India is only “partly free” with a rank of 30 out of 65 countries in Internet freedom but as of May this year, it has improved its score. The improvement in India’s score, from …
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