QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 12 April 2017

QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz –  12 April  2017 QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz Archives Clarifications: Q12, 9th & 10th April Quiz (Click HERE): Regarding Cellular Jail – answer must be option ‘d’ (A&N Islands), not ‘c’. The following quiz will have 5-10 MCQs . The questions are mainly framed from The …

Insights Daily Current Affairs, 12 April 2017

  Insights Daily Current Affairs, 12 April 2017   Paper 2 Topic: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.   G20 Ministers in-charge of digital economy issue declaration on ‘Shaping Digitalisation for an Interconnected World’   G20 Ministers responsible for the digital economy met in Dusseldorf, Germany recently for …

[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 12 April 2017

[Insights Secure – 2017] UPSC Mains Questions on Current Affairs: 12 April 2017 Click on EACH question to post/read  answers. STATIC Syllabus Timetable General Studies – 1; Topic:  Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country 1) In your opinion, what are the reasons for very low (7%) voter turnout in recent by-poll election in Srinagar? It is …

7) How the growing integration of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies and robotics in all our core industrial sectors is threatening jobs? In this scenario, how should government create more jobs? Examine.

Topic: Employment; Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life 7) How the growing integration of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies and robotics in all our core industrial sectors is threatening jobs? In this scenario, how should government create more jobs? Examine. (200 Words) The Hindu

6) Many car makers around the world have recalled their cars over faulty airbags. What is the mechanism behind working of an airbag? What threats does faulty airbags pose to passengers?

Topic: Science and Technology- developments and their applications and effects in everyday life  6) Many car makers around the world have recalled their cars over faulty airbags. What is the mechanism behind working of an airbag? What threats does faulty airbags pose to passengers? (200 Words) The Indian Express

4) In the light of the latest (2016) University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines on MPhil and PhD, critically analyse how these guidelines would impact research and quality of education in Indian universities.

Topic:Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources. 4) In the light of the latest (2016) University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines on MPhil and PhD, critically analyse how these guidelines would impact research and quality of education in Indian universities. (200 Words) The Hindu

3) What stakes does India have in the larger Indo-Pacific region? Critically examine if India’s is moving in right trajectory to play major role in the Indio-Pacific region.

Topic: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests  3) What stakes does India have in the larger Indo-Pacific region? Critically examine if India’s is moving in right trajectory to play major role in the Indio-Pacific region. (200 Words) The Hindu

1) In your opinion, what are the reasons for very low (7%) voter turnout in recent by-poll election in Srinagar? It is argued that percentage of voter turnout has been an indicator of for or anti – India sentiments in the Kashmir valley since independence. Do you agree? Critically comment

Topic:  Post-independence consolidation and reorganization within the country 1) In your opinion, what are the reasons for very low (7%) voter turnout in recent by-poll election in Srinagar? It is argued that percentage of voter turnout has been an indicator of for or anti – India sentiments in the Kashmir valley since independence. Do you agree? …