Insights Daily Current Affairs, 05 January 2016

    Insights Daily Current Affairs, 05 January 2016   Paper 2 Topic: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.   Government issues notification of ‘Indian Skill Development Service’   The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has issued the notification of setting up of Indian …

Insights into Editorial: Best antidote to fake news and hate speech is more speech

    Insights into Editorial: Best antidote to fake news and hate speech is more speech   Summary: Some incidents in the past few years have shown that society and its conflicts manifest themselves in what has come to be known as “fake news” — and the internet does aid its rapid distribution. That is …

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 05 January 2017

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz –  05 January  2017 QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz Archives The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs . The questions are mainly framed from The Hindu  and PIB news articles. This quiz is intended to introduce you to concepts and certain important facts relevant to UPSC IAS civil …

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 04 January 2017

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz –  04 January  2017 QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz Archives The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs . The questions are mainly framed from The Hindu  and PIB news articles. This quiz is intended to introduce you to concepts and certain important facts relevant to UPSC IAS civil …

[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 05 January 2017

[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 05 January 2017 Click on EACH question to post/read  answers. General Studies – 1; Topic: World geography; History of India 1) Critics argue that India and Bangladesh have wasted opportunities for shared advantages, especially when both countries are linked intricately together by geography. Do you agree? Analyse. (200 …

ETHICS CASE STUDY: If you were a police officer in-charge of providing security on this occasion, how you would have handled the situation?

Topic:  Public/Civil service values and Ethics in Public administration 7) Recently, on the occasion of new year celebrations, thousands of revellers had gathered in and around Mahatma Gandhi Road and Brigade Road to ring in 2017, as is something of a tradition in the city. But, according to reports that subsequently emerged, a large number …

3) Shifting towards a digital payments ecosystem could generate several potential benefits: for citizens, it could reduce transaction costs and increase access to critical financial services; for governments, it could reduce leakages and improve public service delivery. But, to see these benefits on ground, how should India create and transform its digital payment infrastructure? Examine

Topic : Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; 3) Shifting towards a digital payments ecosystem could generate several potential benefits: for citizens, it could reduce transaction costs and increase access to critical financial services; for governments, it could reduce leakages and improve public service delivery. But, to …