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  Lok Sabha TV- Insight: Banking Reforms And Challenges   With the potential to become 5th largest banking industry in the world by 2020 and 3rd largest perhaps by 2025 according to some reports, India’s banking and financial sector is expanding rapidly. The Indian banking industry is currently worth of more than 1 trillion dollar […]

    Insights Daily Current Affairs, 20 March 2017   Paper 3 Topic: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.   Telescope upgrade to sniff out solar storms   The GRAPES-3 experiment at TIFR’s Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ootacamund in Tamil Nadu is getting […]

    Insights into Editorial: Low, stagnating female labour-force participation in India    Summary: National Sample Survey (NSS) data for India show that labour force participation rates of women aged 25-54 (including primary and subsidiary status) have stagnated at about 26-28% in urban areas, and fallen substantially from 57% to 44% in rural areas, between […]

  SECURE SYNOPSIS: 20 March 2017 NOTE: Please remember that following  ‘answers’ are NOT ‘model answers’. They are NOT synopsis too if we go by definition of the term. What we are providing is content that both meets demand of the question and at the same time gives you extra points in the form of background […]

[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 20 March 2017 Click on EACH question to post/read  answers. STATIC Syllabus Timetable General Studies – 1; Topic : Political philosophies; Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues 1) Critically analyse Ambedkar, Gandhi and Nehru’s views on democracy. (200 […]

Topic:  Functions and responsibilities of the Union and the States; pressure groups and formal/informal associations and their role in the Polity 4) The data suggest that the drug abuse problem in Punjab is highest in India. Critically examine its causes. Also comment on the role of political parties in combating drug problem in Punjab. (200 Words) The […]

Topic:Ethics and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and consequences of Ethics in human actions; 6) Discuss the ethical issues involved in the Supreme Court’s ban on liquor shops on national and state highways. (150 Words) The Indian Express

Topic: Indian economy – growth and development 5) In your opinion, which measures should government take to increase the size of India’s formal economy? Discuss. (200 Words) Livemint

Topic:  History of the world will include events from 18th century; Political philosophies 3) Differentiate between civil war and revolution. Examine how civil wars have shaped political philosophies 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. (200 Words) Livemint

Topic: History of the world will include events from 18th century; Political philosophies 2) “The rise of Turkey’s Erdogan to absolute power is a classic example of the crisis democracies face today.” Critically comment. (200 Words) The Hindu

Topic : Political philosophies; Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues 1) Critically analyse Ambedkar, Gandhi and Nehru’s views on democracy. (200 Words) The Hindu