Insights into Editorial: Be the solution Summary: The centre has asked all high court chief justices to “review” cases of undertrials who have been incarcerated for long and to “take suo motu action for their release”. This is a move in the right direction. Undertrials in India: According to the ‘Prison …
AIR spotlight summary on “Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan”. Introduction The union cabinet has approved Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) to make 6 crore rural household digitally literate. According to Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) survey, if mobile penetration increases by 10% then the GDP would …
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Insights Daily Current Affairs, 14 February 2017 Paper 2 Topic: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. New IMF Training and Technical Assistance Center (SARTTAC) New IMF Training and Technical Assistance Center (SARTTAC) was recently inaugurated in Delhi for Economic Capacity Building in South Asia. Less than a year …
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Lok Sabha TV- Public Forum: All about Steel https://youtu.be/c3vNqPr-ixg Steel plays a major role in the growth of the developing economy. In India, it is valued at over 100 billion dollars and contributes around 2% of the GDP of the country. India has become the third largest producer of steel with …
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Mains Self Study – Test 18 (Ethics) “In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.” Clarify the quote with examples. What is its relevance for the contemporary order? “By restricting social benefits to BPL households, the poverty line will be fully converted from a statistical benchmark to a real-life social division” …
Improving Productivity If you want to be successful in Civil Services Examination and the examination of life, one thing you must surely invest in is, increasing your productivity. What do you think about productivity? Is it when you make an ambitious plan filled with diverse tasks to be completed in one day? …
Breakup – Additional Syllabus – Test 19-23 Test Number Economic Survey India Year Book 2017 Test 19 Chapters 1, 2 and 3 Chapter 1 (Land and People) to Chapter 10 (Education) Test 20 Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 Chapter 11 (Energy) to Chapter 20 (Law and Justice) Test 21 Chapters 8, 9 and …
[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 14 February 2017 Click on EACH question to post/read answers. STATIC Syllabus Timetable General Studies – 1; Topic: Political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism etc.- their forms and effect on the society. 1) What do you understand by liberal capitalism? Do we need liberal capitalism today? Justify. …
Topic: Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India and world, 9) In your opinion, what’s justice and just society? What is Ambedkar’s view on just society? Examine. (150 Words) Class XI NCERT Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter – 4
Topic: Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India and world, 8) In India the eminent socialist thinker Rammanohar Lohia, identified five kinds of inequalities that need to be fought against simultaneously. What are these inequalities? Are these still relevant today? How Lohia wanted to fight these inequalities? Examine. (200 Words) Class XI NCERT Political …
Topic:Human Values – lessons from the lives and teachings of great leaders, reformers and administrators 7) Define freedom? Discuss how did Gandhiji, Mandela and Netaji Bose view and define freedom. (150 Words) Class XI NCERT Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter – 2
Topic: Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India and world, 6) What do you understand by Harm Principle? Discuss relevance of this Principle in contemporary India. Also examine John Stuart Mill’s opinion on Harm Principle. (200 Words) Class XI NCERT Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter – 2
Topic: Issues relating to intellectual property rights. 5) It is argued that India must strengthen its intellectual property rights infrastructure without giving in to US pressure to do away with the flexibility granted by WTO regulations. Examine in what context this argument is made and why it’s made. (200 Words) Livemint
Topic: Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology. 4) What is an interceptor missile? Recently India successfully test-fired its interceptor missile off the Odisha coast. Discuss significance of this test for India. (200 Words) The Hindu
Topic:Important International institutions, agencies and fora- their structure, mandate. 3) Neither sanctions nor warnings issued by other powers have had any impact on North Korea’s bellicose behaviour which again recently launched a medium-range ballistic missile. In your opinion, how should the US, the UN and other powers respond and restrain North Korea? Critically comment. (200 Words) …
Topic: Urbanization – problems and remedies 2) What is a proprietary city? Examine role of these cities in urbanization and national development. (200 Words) Livemint
Topic: Political philosophies like communism, capitalism, socialism etc.- their forms and effect on the society. 1) What do you understand by liberal capitalism? Do we need liberal capitalism today? Justify. (200 Words) The Hindu
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