Insights Daily Current Affairs, 22 February 2017

    Insights Daily Current Affairs, 22 February 2017   Paper 2 Topic: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.   New format for police officials recording road accidents   To address the growing number of road accident cases in the country, the road transport and highways …

[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 22 February 2017

[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 22 February 2017 Click on EACH question to post/read  answers. STATIC Syllabus Timetable General Studies – 1; Topic:  Changes in critical geographical features (including waterbodies and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of such changes 1) How eras, epochs and eons are decided …

5) Recently, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) capped pricing of medical stents. Critically examine significance of this measure and its impact on various stakeholders

Topic: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, 5) Recently, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) capped pricing of medical stents. Critically examine significance of this measure and its impact on various stakeholders. (200 Words) The Hindu

3) In order to bridge the gap between urban and rural consciousness, between the past and the present, another trend which is very much visible in the post-modernist poetry scene is the use of mythology to present the modern predicament. Discuss features of this trend.

Topic: Indian culture will cover the salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from ancient to modern times.  3) In order to bridge the gap between urban and rural consciousness, between the past and the present, another trend which is very much visible in the post-modernist poetry scene is the use of mythology to …

2) Why do you think that technologies such as Uber that are so successful managing movement within the city are not being deployed for the journeys between them? How can it be made possible? Examine.

Topic: Urbanization, their problems and their remedies   2) Why do you think that technologies such as Uber that are so successful managing movement within the city are not being deployed for the journeys between them? How can it be made possible? Examine. (200 Words) Livemint

1) How eras, epochs and eons are decided in geological timescale? Recently it was decided to name present epoch as anthropocene. Critically discuss salient features of anthropocene.

Topic:  Changes in critical geographical features (including waterbodies and ice-caps) and in flora and fauna and the effects of such changes 1) How eras, epochs and eons are decided in geological timescale? Recently it was decided to name present epoch as anthropocene. Critically discuss salient features of anthropocene. (200 Words) The Hindu