Insights Revision Plan for Prelims 2016: Test – 33 TIMETABLE 09 July 2016 Questions Based on Day – 37 Syllabus Please Read before you Proceed to Take Today’s Test: Hope you have completed yesterday’s targets and now ready to give this test. Please note that you should not worry about scores in these tests. Questions are mainly …
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Insights into Editorial: Toothless tiger NHRC needs more powers: Apex court 09 July 2016 The Supreme Court recently said it did not augur well for a democracy like India to have a National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) which was helpless to redress human rights violations as states seldom implemented its recommendations. NHRC has also informed …
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Insights Daily Current Events, 09 July 2016 Paper 2 Topic: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests. MoUs between India and Mozambique Three agreements were signed in areas of drug trafficking, pulse trading and sports between India and Mozambique during PM Modi’s recent visit …
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[Insights Secure – 2016] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Events: 09 July 2016 Archives – Secure 2016 Click on EACH question to post/read answers. PRELIMS REVISION PROGRAM TIMETABLE (CLICK HERE) Prelims Revision Tests General Studies – 1; Topic: Communalism; Salient features of Indian society; 1) In Kerala’s Muslim-dominated Kozhikode and Malappuram districts many children are dying of diphtheria. Examine why. …
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Topic: Moral thinkers and leaders 7) “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” Examine relevance of this quote for a civil servant. (150 Words) General
Topic: Awareness in the fields of IT 6) What do you understand by Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)? It is said that SaaS market in India is huge. Examine why. (200 Words) The Hindu
Topic: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests 5) Critically analyse the costs and benefits of Indo-US relations. (200 Words) EPW
Topic: Issues relating to poverty and hunger 4) Despite the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013, serious food insecurities remain in many Indian states. Examine why and suggest how this situation can be improved. (200 Words) EPW
Topic: mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections 3) Was India right in its recent abstention on the UNHRC resolution creating a post of an independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity? Also critically comment on the Supreme Court’s verdict in Suresh Kumar Koushal v. Naz Foundation case. …
Topic: Salient features of Indian society 2) So far, the attempt to curb spitting at public place is limited to the enactment of laws against it and this has proved to be ineffective. Why spitting in public places need to be banned? What strategies should be adopted? Examine. (200 Words) EPW
Topic: Communalism; Salient features of Indian society; 1) In Kerala’s Muslim-dominated Kozhikode and Malappuram districts many children are dying of diphtheria. Examine why. What should government do to address this issue? Comment. (200 Words) The Hindu
